Highlighting in Adobe Reader X

How do you highligh text in Adobe Reader X? I have been using "Highlight Text" button on tollbar but it will not hightlight.

What happens when you try?
Are you sure the PDF contains actual text and not just an image of text (say as in a scanned document)?

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Of course, ideally, I would also like this to be automatic in the future, as the Adobe Reader Metro App is generally well-designed, touch-interface wise. But this lacking feature makes finding my comments a much greater hassle than it should be (as I can see where I highlighted, but not what without traveling directly to the page)
Also on a side note, I apparently can't delete a sticky note from within the app, what the hell

You cannot enforce something like that. You have some options when the field is set up to allow rich text formatting, but the user can always change it.

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I read many tech books as pdfs. And highlight the parts I want to note.
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ken

Thanks.
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We have an application aimed at assisting people with reading difficulties. For that purpose we have written an Adobe Reader plugin which makes our application able to read text from PDF documents. While it reads it also highlights the words it is reading so that the user can keep up with it. However, after the 10.1.1 update of the Reader the highlighting no longer works.
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Ok, I found the problem.
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I've already followed the steps posted here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/430906 and enabled highlighting under preferences but i'm still unable to highlight or comment.
I am sure the document allows commenting as I was able to highlight and comment using campus computers but not my personal laptop.
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The PDF has to be specially enabled by someone using Acrobat in order for that to work.
The campus computers may have a version of Acrobat and that's why you can do it there.

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Trying to highlight and comment in reader. Does anyone know how I can get this to work on my macbook? Kind of a noob, but should be able to figure it out.
My document says that I can read and write, but I can't get the toolbar to come up in reader. I have been going to
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My company recently went paperless, and I need to be able to mark up some of these docs.
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According to the creator it is set up for commenting. In properties, I have read and write privileges. I am having trouble enabling the comment and markup toolbar. Whenever I go to VIEW>TOOLBARS>MORE TOOLS, I can check to enable the toolbar, but when I do it fails to appear in the application.
Yes it sounds like I do not have write privileges, but when I go to properties, I'm listed as "read and write".
Thanks in advance,
Joe

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I have Adobe Reader 9. I have read through 3 different forums, and 2 different Adobe help pages about adding the 'highlight toolbar'. When I check the "highlighter tool" and press okay, it doesn't show up on the toolbar. Long behold i go back to the properties/customization, and the "highlighter tool" is unchecked. I can never get it to be perminantly checked, nor can i highlight anything.
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Acrobat Reader X provides use of sticky notes and highlight.
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what is the shortcut key to highlight words in adobe reader in macbook pro?
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I don't believe there is a keyboard shortcut available for that feature. But I believe if you click-select the topmost chapter, and Shift-click the bottommost chapter, it should select them all.
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I have enjoyed using Adobe Reader to proofread clients' documents, but since the last two iOS 7 updates I can't highlight, underline, strike through or select text in PDFs generated by the same source that previously presented no problems.
The drawing and insert text functions do work.
I am using an up-to-date iOS 7 iPad 4. The latest Adobe Reader update and a hard reset, as advised elsewhere on the forum, didn't help.
I have read What's New and looked at the Help manual. I am aware of the new long tap to select one word followed by another tap.
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Hi Krissy,
I found it extremely frustrating and I don't have a technically sensible answer for you.
Mine started working again suddenly, but slowly, after many hours of not working, and then improved in speed and responsiveness with use.
The conventional wisdom is to ensure you have the latest update of Adobe Reader first. There has been more than one since the iOS 7 change.
The first time it started working again for me was when I was trying in a pdf that I had previously edited in Adobe Reader before the problem began, where I know all the tools used to work (i.e. no problems caused by the file itself) but it is now also working in the new doc that wouldn't work the other day.
Shradha above gave me the clue that triggered it. I usually go straight to the "Pick a Tool" comment/annotate button in the main/first toolbar at the top, then use the toolbar at the bottom, where the highlight, underline and strikeout tools wouldn't work.
These functions started working when I tried selecting text directly from the first screen that has the toolbar for "View Modes" (an eye), save/export options, "Pick a Tool", share options and search, without selecting any of these options.
So, instead of choosing the Pick a Tool button at the top, try just holding down some text for a while, as if to select it (mine wouldn't even select for a long time) and see if the grey tool menu pops up right above that text.
Initially, I only got the options that were already working to pop up ("Note, Text, Freehand and Signature"). I tried a few different spots in the file and eventually the "Copy/Highlight/Strikeout/Underline/Define" menu popped up. The first time it apppeared was after holding down the text selection action for about 20 seconds, and it didn't appear every time, but then it became quicker and more reliable, and then these functions also started to work from the bottom toolbar that I usually use after choosing Pick a Tool.
Even today, checking that it still works, it was a bit stuttery to start with and then it came good.
Perhaps any of the technically-minded members could explain this or perhaps tell us if there is a difference in the action that is supposed to bring up the "Note" etc versus the "Highlight" etc pop-up menus. I'm stumped.
So try holding down text to select as soon as you open the file, and see if that grey menu will start to appear with the "Highlight" etc options after several attempts. I hope it starts working for you soon.
C

Problems saving a file in Adobe Reader 11 after highlighting

Hi,
Has anyone come across a problem where Adobe Reader 11 seems to have problems in saving certain files after highlighting some text?
One of our processes involves checking information and to do this we open up a saved PDF file in Adobe Reader 11 and highlight the relevant text to confirm the amounts have been checked, and then save the file.
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However one of our users is having problems with certain PDF files where, when she goes to save the file after highlighting, it comes up with an error saying that it can't save to this filename and requests that a new filename is entered. If we then save to a new file, and then save as to the original file it works.
So basically this user is having to save the PDF file twice after highlighting - which is annoying.
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pwillener wrote:
I'm getting something similar, but the message I get is "...pdf already exists. Do you want to replace it?" I click 'Yes' and the document is replaced under its original file name. This is using Reader 11.0.10.
Sorry - I should have been clearer.
She gets exactly that question, but when she clicks yes, then she gets 'The document could not be saved. Cannot save to this filename. Please save the document with a different name or in a different folder.' At this point the name of the document as shown at the top of the screen has changed to a ???????.tmp filename.
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Highlight text in adobe reader for android

Dear Adobe Reader Team,
I've had a problem with my adobe reader for android version 11.5.0
It's not highlighting any text or doesn't even select it when I scroll over.
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It sounds like you have a scanned PDF document. Because a scanned PDF document contains images of text (not real text), you will not be able to select text or highlight it. You can still add Freehand drawing and/or sticky notes to a scanned PDF document.
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Like I said, I didn't change any of the preferences, so I don't know why this happened. I think it only happened after I opened Adobe Reader X. I see no options in preferences for turning on or off the ability to highlight text with your mouse pointer, and I thought you were not supposed to be able to do this in Adobe Reader 9.

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bumping thread...
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