That is, as soons as you close all Acrobat instances and start the program again, it will revert to the "default properties" you've set as "default" through the "Make Properties Default" method above mentioned. In this video, I will show you, How to Highlight the text of the PDF Document in Adobe Acrobat Pro. To highlight a passage, just drag your cursor over the text, and then save your changes. If you click on the highlighter drop-down arrow, you can choose from a variety of colors. Next, click on the highlighter button at the top of the screen. This is almost the same as right-clicking a comment and choosing "Properties", but the interface is nicer and it's quicker to change properties this way.Īn observation: if you press CTRL + E and, without having selected any specific comment, click on a comment tool (Highlight, Underline, etc.) and change its properties in the new interface opened by CTRL + E, it will make those properties the default properties for that comment tool, but only for this session of Acrobat. To open your PDF in Preview, simply double-click on the file, or launch Preview and choose 'File' > 'Open'. After you chose the color, click "More." and check "Make Properties Default" to permanently store your prefered color as the new highlight color. Add any logos and/or design elements here. The first thing you need to do is design the document in a program like Illustrator or InDesign.
I create fillable wedding invitation templates for my printables business, so I have come to learn Adobe Acrobat quite well. This latest version of Adobe Reader is still FREE and works exactly the same as before, but it does look a little different. A good way to do this is with Adobe Acrobat. If you need to change an annotation's color on the fly, you can click on it and then press CTRL + E (CMD + E for a Mac). Adobe Reader has recently been updated to a new version called Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. How to Use Acrobat DC Highlighter tool to highlight non-text itemsIf you like this video, please check out my PDF Commenting course at, where I hav.
When you hover with the mouse above text it will automatically switch to the text selection mode.
I haven't tested it in Reader, but this works on Acrobat Pro DC: How to use the highlight tool in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC I use the Comment tool, select with the text cursor then click on the highlighter symbol to highlight the selected text.