Whenever I draw on a PDF it stops drawing the moment I lift my pen up

[Samantha3741495896ha]

I have always been able to draw as much as I want on my PDF but recently whenever I lift tup my pen it reverts back to the selection tool.

For example if I want to draw a word: after I draw the first letter and lift up my pen I cannot keep drawing the rest of the letters of the word. It just selects the letter I have drawn and lets me move it or delete it.

[Abambo]

What is your OS and version? What is your Acrobat and version?

[Rick37542828fnex]

I have the same issue...I used to be able to free draw, but this must have changed with a recent update.  I select the drawing tool to use with my bamboo pen, but when I lift my pen it reverts to the selection tool.  Very frustrating to keep selecting the drawing tool to spell each letter of a word.  I have windows 11 and using latest version of Adobe Pro (this new version does not show any toolbars at the top).  This new version of Adobe Pro does not show the version under "help" anymore...how do I know my version?

[Lisa36246443koj6]

Hello! Has anyone figured this out? It is driving me crazy!

[Meenakshi Negi · Accepted solution]

Hi Lisa36246443koj6,

Thank you for reaching out. 

Please ensure that you select the pin icon to keep the tool selected for continuous use. Once you select the draw freehand tool, click on the pin tool below. In the screenshot below, draw freehand tool and pin tool are selected.

For more information, refer to the title "Keep an annotation tool selected" in the following help document: https://adobe.ly/3Xsmv4y. 

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

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[aeon_3031]

Saved my liffe. Thank you.

[maleitag]

Also, select what you just drew using the select tool and select opacity.  Somehow the opacity is set to 3% by default and needs to go up to 100% to be seen.