Highlighting PDFs

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Hi!When I try to highlight text in PDFs, sometimes it works well, (highlighting is the same as in a Word doc.- straight, right over the text, controllable. When I highlight other pdfs, the select tool selects below the text instead of on it and when I try to highlight with the highlight tool, it's big and blobby, instead of straight like highlighting in a Word doc. This seems to happen consistently with certain PDFs and consistently does not with others.N.T.

try67 · Accepted Answer

One of the free-form markup drawing tools, under Comment.On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:17 AM, ntaylor444 <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

try67 · Answer

This is related to how the text in the file was created. The latter is most likely the result of using non-standard fonts, and/or of an OCR process (ie, converting scanned pages into "real" text). There's nothing you can do about it using Reader, I'm afraid, unless you use a different tool to highlight your text, like the Square tool.

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