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pencil woes

New Here ,
Dec 13, 2017 Dec 13, 2017

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.

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Community Expert , Dec 16, 2017 Dec 16, 2017

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

 

What does yours show?

 

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Community Expert ,
Dec 14, 2017 Dec 14, 2017

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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New Here ,
Dec 15, 2017 Dec 15, 2017

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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Community Expert ,
Dec 16, 2017 Dec 16, 2017

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

 

What does yours show?

 

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New Here ,
Aug 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022

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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New Here ,
Nov 11, 2022 Nov 11, 2022

none of these changes will make a difference. 

You cannot even stretch the shape out with the arrow tool

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New Here ,
Nov 11, 2022 Nov 11, 2022

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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New Here ,
Mar 22, 2023 Mar 22, 2023

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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New Here ,
Jan 23, 2024 Jan 23, 2024

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

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New Here ,
Jun 18, 2024 Jun 18, 2024

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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New Here ,
Feb 18, 2025 Feb 18, 2025
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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

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