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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.
Select the Comment (the Pencil drawing) > Right Click > select Properties from the context sensitive menu.
What does yours show?
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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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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?
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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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I'm having the same problem. For some reason the pencil tool is only drawing dots now. When I right click on the dot, it brings up the properties menu just like you show. What do I need to change to get it to draw a line again?
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none of these changes will make a difference.
You cannot even stretch the shape out with the arrow tool
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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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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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I got the pencil as a dot problem to go away changing the "Touch Mode" to "NEVER"
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I've changed the preferences on touch mode to 'Never' but I'm still getting dots when trying to draw. Any other suggestions for this?
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It worked for me, i just had to restart Adobe Acrobat after applying the changes. Thank you for the person that suggest this on the preference