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pencil woes

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
December 14, 2017
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When I use the pencil tool in Reader, I cannot draw with it; rather, it just makes dots. (When I use Acrobat, however, I am able to draw with the pencil.)

How do I fix this? I'm trying to show students how to use the pencil tool, and making only dots with it isn't useful.

pencil tool not working

Correct answer jane-e

Select the Comment (the Pencil drawing) > Right Click > select Properties from the context sensitive menu.

What does yours show?

J

Joe27087018w25i

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I am having the same problem

There does not appear to be anything that makes any changes on the right click menu

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R289800748f9d

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Happened to me as well, both times I just made sure I had the latest updates and it worked properly without any setting changes. This last one, it did have a pop-up that said Touch Mode Auto-Detect had been enabled (or something similar). Can find this option in Edit-Preferences-General- Touch Mode is about halfway down.

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mikexgray2021

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I got the pencil as a dot problem to go away changing the "Touch Mode" to "NEVER"

jane-e

Community Expert

What does it say when you bring up Properties for the Pencil tool?

And is this happening on all machines or just yours?

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lesliekerosAuthor

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How are you able to access the pencil's properties? Also, once you do that, what property would you change to make the pencil actually draw rather than make dots?

jane-e

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Select the Comment (the Pencil drawing) > Right Click > select Properties from the context sensitive menu.

What does yours show?

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