Highlights text in Preview: it's not viewable in PC apps

I use to hightlight and underline text using preview.app.
If I send the pdf file to other users and if they try to open with a PC they can't see the "things" I made.
Any help?

This type of thing can happen when the document is saved with the Preview application on the Mac, but it can be due to other things as well. These other things have been difficult for me to determine, but to fix it (assuming the form is not otherwise corrupted as it can be when saved with Preview) you can export the form data to an FDF file and then re-import it into the form. You'll need Acrobat for this. To fix with either Reader 11 (which can save) or Acrobat you can use the script that's available here: http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/885/cpsid_88564.html

Similar Messages

Highlighting text in Preview

Unexpectedly, a strange alteration to how I can highlight text, when reading a pdf in Preview has occurred. I used to be able to check the highlight icon in the annotations bar and that's about it. Now when I intend to highlight text, the colour extends to being four lines wide, and when I finish - it gets even stranger. Instead of the text with a straight band of colour - like with a real high-liner pen - odd shapes occur across the text! How to revert to a simple, colour line highlighting the text I feel is important?

No it has nothing to do with, if the PDF is protected or not. It is not in this case, it is having the PDF open in Preview and holding down the mouse button and dragging and highlighting the information in whatever direction you push your mouse in. Preview seems to only highlight what ever is showing on the screen instead of highlighting from page to page.

Why can't I highlight text in Preview?

In Preview v.7.0 (826.4), I highlighted text and saved the file but at a later date I could not highlight different text? Why would that be? Thank you.

Ok...I think I've figured it out. I have my trackpad set to tap for everything but it seems that to highlight next you now have to actually click the trackpad. I hope this rather obvious solution helps others...or at the very least provides some amusement
Am I going nuts? This was not a feature in previous OS X, right?

Highlighting text in preview without "touchpad click"

I am working a lot on pdfs in which I have to highlight certain parts. I use Mac's Preview. So far I have been using the touchpad, by e.g. clicking and then dragging the cursor over the relevant section. This might sound a bit silly, but the clicking and dragging is become a hassle (if you do it for a few hours) since you have to keep the touchpad pressed while highlighting the text.
Is there a way that i only have to click a key and then can simply highlight with the touchpad the text In short, can I replace the click on the touchpad with a key on the keyboard? I would keep the key pressed with my left hand and move with my right hand on the touchpad. Would be - at least for me - much easier.
Hope i was clear enough. Any hint would be very much welcome!!

Even easier than your suggested solution is to turn on the highlighted gestures in the screenshot below in System Prefernces > Trackpad | Point & Click.
Once they're set, to highlight you just tap (not click) once at the beginning of the text you want highlighted, then 3-finger swipe to extend the highlighting.
Give it a try. I think you'll find it rather effective...

Is there a way to extract highlighted text from preview

Hi I'm new to the community but would like to know if there is a way to extract all of the text I have highlighted in a pdf viewed in preview? Basically a quick versioin of cutting and pasting multiple highlighted items at once.

You might want to look at the source for the icon editors here.
Mark Yedinak
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

Can I move highlighted text to the comments but not underlined text?

So I just upgraded to Acrobat from Reader yesterday so I could take notes on books for school. I found out how to export the comments from a PDF to a new document using a JS, and have enjoyed using the following:
// Get the comments in this document, and sort by author
this.syncAnnotScan();
annots = this.getAnnots({nSortBy: ANSB_Author});
// Open a new report
var rep = new Report();
rep.size = 1.2;
rep.color = color.blue;
if (annots) {
rep.writeText("Summary of Comments: By Author");
rep.color = color.black;
rep.writeText(" ");
rep.writeText("Number of Comments: " + annots.length);
rep.writeText(" ");
var msg = "\200 page %s: \"%s\"";
var theAuthor = annots[0].author;
rep.writeText(theAuthor);
rep.indent(20);
for (var i=0; i < annots.length; i++) {
if (theAuthor != annots[i].author) {
theAuthor = annots[i].author;
rep.writeText(" ");
rep.outdent(20);
rep.writeText(theAuthor);
rep.indent(20);
rep.writeText(
util.printf(msg, 1 + annots[i].page, annots[i].contents));
} else {
var msg = "No annotations found in this document, %s.";
rep.writeText(util.printf(msg, this.documentFileName));
// Now open the report
var docRep = rep.open("myreport.pdf");
docRep.info.Title = "Comments for " + this.docuentFileName;
docRep.info.Subject = "Comments";
What I'm curious about is if there is a way around having both highlighted and underlined text go instantly to comments. If it's possible to get just one or the other to automatically enter the comments that might save me a ton of time manually copying and making decisions like "is this really worth the extra size of the output file." Those kinds of decisions really slow down my reading process. Rigth now I've been exporting pages of stuff, and even though I can search what I export it's going to become unmanageable.
The only thing I can think is to only copy things that I specifically wanted exported to the comments, and to just do this manually so I don't end up with too much highlighted/underlined text.
(Also, and this one isn't that important...is there a way to save the JS I have been using to all the PDFs that I have? Right now I have just been copy pasting it to each PDF that I make.)
Thanks in advance,
Matt

The forums have mangled the script (which looks strangely familiar ) but if you want to only list annotations with a specific type, add a new line in between these two:
for (var i=0; i < annots.length; i++) {
if (annots[i].type == "Highlight") {
if (theAuthor != annots[i].author) {
and add another closing brace at the end of this one
} else {
'type' has several defined strings, all documented in the SDK. You'd be using "Highlight" or "Underline" to filter.
If you want to run the script repeatedly, you can put it into an Action (using the 'run a javaScript' step). Bear in mind that you can't run it against several files at the same time, as the reports aren't saved, so set the Action's properties to apply only to the currently-open document.

Text annotation made in iOS not shown outside adobe app.

I opened a PDF attachment in the adobe reader app from an email message on iOS.
I added text annotations, and also a signature annotation then saved and emailed the document. When I received the email on my other account, I opened the attachment to find that the signature was still visible, however the text notes were not.
When I open the original modified document in the adobe app, all of my notes are still there.
ammended:
I have discovered that if I open the annoted document I received in the adobe app, all notes are visible. the text notes appear to be missing if the dicument is opened in any other app or with the native iOS pdf quick view.
Message was edited by: lee.evans.81

lee.evans.81,
I can say that this is something we've considered and I expect we'll implement in a future release. We've debated for some time on this issue because we've been afraid of the confusion it causes people. People who are more technical will immediately grasp "flatten for sharing". They'll also understand why their comments and forms are suddenly no longer editable by recipients. We've been afraid of confusing those who are less technical and we hate the idea of adding yet another option to the product. That said, we realize that by NOT having this feature, we confuse a number of the same users AND we frustrate those people who understand the issue. Please watch for the feature in a future update =)

PDF files created in Pages have text not viewable on PC

I have created a large (7 MB) program for a large conference in Pages. In order to have it printed, I converted it to a PDF. For some reason, some of the text on some pages is not viewable on PCs using Acrobat Pro or Reader - it should be black and is showing as white text.
What could be the problem? This does not happen on all PCs, only some. Has anyone experienced this in the past and is there a solution? Of course, my deadline is rapidly approaching...the conference starts on the 26th. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Eden

I am having the same problem when exporting to PDF AND Word files. My document looks great in Pages and in Preview, but half of my text is converted to white when viewed in Acrobat Reader or Word. This is very FRUSTRATING!! I have a deadline approaching, too, and am collaborating with another shop that works on PC's. Any ideas for how to fix this issue are very welcome!

Lenovo G50 Touchpad not letting scroll to highlight text in word to delete text in Windows 10

Hi. I'm working on a paper. When I want to use the touchpad to scroll to highlight text to delete it is not highlighting the text. It was working perfectly not too long ago. I'm sure it's something simple but I don't know what happened. Can anyone help me please?

hi DonnaR,
Welcome to the Forums.
When you highlight the text, are you doing a double tap & hold then drag to highlight the text or click & hold then drag on the touchpad to highlight?
If it's the former then tapping might be disabled. Ensure that the Touchpad driver is installed and the tapping feature is enabled.
Drivers:
G50-30:
Touchpad Driver (Elan, Synaptics) for Windows 10 (64-bit)
G50-40 / G50-80:
Touchpad Driver (Elan, Synaptics) for Windows 10 (64-bit)
G40-45, G50-45, G70-35
Touchpad Driver (Elan, Synaptics) for Windows 10 (64-bit)
G50-70:
Touchpad Driver (Elan, Synaptics) for Windows 10 (64-bit)
ELAN:
- Link to picture
- Illustration of ELAN Smart-Pad
Synaptics:
- Link to picture
Let me know how it goes.
Regards

Highlighting Text in pdf Documents using Preview

Am using Snow Leopard (10.6.3) with Preview version 5.0.2.
Tried highlighting text using the instructions in Preview help. No success.
I click Annotate; chose the Highlight Colour but then appear to be unable to select the text.
Anyone any ideas?
Thanks

Thanks for the hint. I think I've just discovered why I cannot do it. The pdf document I'm trying to highlight is the result of the output from a scanner. Hence it is effectively a "picture" - not text. The only thing that I have been able to do is to choose Annotate and then choose "Add Oval" or whatever and select its size and colour and then position this over the text I wish to highlight.
Because it is effectively a picture you cannot select text. I tried it on another pdf document that IS text and your solution works a treat.
Thanks again
Malcolm

Preview: highlight text slowly disappears over the days

Hello everyone.
I have several days reading a book in pdf format with preview.app, and I highlight text in bright yellow.
I have reviewed all the highlighted text and the color yellow is more tenuous as I approach the beginning of the book.
In fact the highlight of the first page no longer exists.
How I can do to make all the highlight is of the same intensity of color?
I use Preview Versión 5.5 (719). Thank you.

Tonight I went to the Genius Bar. There seems to be two options:
(1) Do as the genius did tonight:
- Reset the home folder's ACL (Access Control List.) (He said to Google this to learn exactly how to do this.)
- Repair the disk permissions
- Delete the Preview preference file. It's a "plist" file located in user/library/preferences
If that doesn't work, then:
(2) Re-install Lion.
I tried Preview with the fixes and most of my problems seemed to be fixed. Those being the colors of the highlighted text and notes haven't dimmed after a number of quits and restarts of Preview. However, the grey text that I originally included in my annotations became invisible again. They're still there, but you can't seem them. Although the text that I included using other colors (blue & red) continue to appear.
My feeling that this still might be an issue related to versions, but who knows.

I am trying to highlight text on multiple pages, but Adobe will not autoscroll via cursor.

I am trying to highlight text on multiple pages, but when I select the text and bring the cursor to the bottom of the screen Adobe does not advance the document. How do I make it so I can highlight from page to page without having to release the mouse button?
Also, how do I get adobe to realize that there is a header and footer on each page, but the actual text in the file is in two columes. Is there a way to make this clear and embade it in the document so other programs recognize this too?

Regarding your first question, change the view to Single Page Continuous.

How do I highlight text in the new Pages? It's not clear.

I have the new version of Pages. And it appears that highlighting of text is an issue. This is a basic function.
I found there is one quick key version, but doesn't clearly explain how to change highlighting colours. How to get into it.
I have to explain this to my 80 year old mom, who we told to get a Mac because it was easier!
So if anyone has it laid out step 1, 2, 3, that would be helpful, because it's not clear to me either.
Thanks!
Apple - please to a quick fix for this one, it should be the same as changing the size or the font or like bold or italic. Simple, clear, fast and doable..... for anyone!

TO Peter,
Thanks for the list. I had found it in LibreOffice, tucked away in the Background tab of the Character pane opened by the Character... menu item in the Format menu, and named "Background Color. A few steps further down than in Pages. Apache OpenOffice has it in the same place. But both also have a hilight icon in the toolbar.
I didn't fin highlighting or Color fill in Text Edit (v1.8). Might need a further search.
But this well-equipped party of (one) oscurantist did find a shorter path to highlighting text in Pages '09, cleverly hidden in plain view! See the image below.
TO hscortez,
I'm aware that changing the text colour is not highlighting.
But YeOldMacFan pointed out how to change text colour AND how to change background colour of text, using Character fill, found in the Advanced Options (Pages 5) or the More (Pages '09) tab of the Text Inspector.
Character Fill fills the space around the character with the chosen colour. As shown above, it's essentially the same effect as dragging a hiliter pen along a line of printed text.
Unfortunately, whats shown above is the Character fill well on the format bar of Pages '09—right out in the open like the highlighter pen button in LibreOffice, and presumeably in MS Word. I don't have Pages 5 (avoiding it until a few more of the missing features arrive), but I do note that Pages for iOS offers highlight as one of the options in the contextual menu that appears when a block of text is selcted.
The process appears to be:
tap twice to select some text.
drag the handles at each end of the selection to adjust what's selected.
tap Highlight in the menu that has appeared on the screen.
One thing missing appears to be colour choice. The default is a 'hiliter yellow'. I didn't see a way to select a different colour.
"Hopefully, this will make it on their upgrade list. "
Hope is good, but taking action is useful.
Pages menu > Provide Pages Feedback > Make your request that this be added to Pages 5. Requests made through Provide ...Feedback go directly to Apple. Comments and questions here are read by users like yourself, and we don't have the ability to change the way the apps work. Not directly,anyway.
Regards,
Barry

Preview - Highlight Text Color - Keyboard Shortcut

Hi!
I've loving the markup capabilities of Preview in Mountain Lion and was wondering if there was a way to quickly change colours (colors) of the highlighted text via keyboard shortcut?
I found this thread for Snow Leopard, but couldn't figure out how to get it to work for Mountain Lion:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3180984?start=0&tstart=0
It seems there are some shortcuts possible, for instance when I click the Markup dropdown box if I type "g" it will highlight Green, "b" it will select Blue etc. But it won't actually select these options.
The quickest way I've found is the right-click after highlighting which brings up a contextual menu to select the colour of that highlight.
Ideally I'd press a shortcut combination to change the highlight colour before selecting what to highlight. Does anyone know of a way to get this functionality?
Thanks so much for your help! =)
Derek.

Check out this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3957?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
and do as explained in the link you posted yourself.
Worked for me by adding shortcuts from General settings-->Keyboard-->Shortcuts and define them for Preview.

Can't print highlighted text on pdf's in Preview

I had printing problems with my office printer Canon IR series. the Canon update UFR II V 2.24 fixed this but brought a new problem.
I can't print annotated pdf's correctly.
Any highlighted text is covered with a full colour bar with no text visible under it. It just covers the text.
Is there a fast way of printing with no annotations or of fixing this problem and just print the highlights correctly?!
Thanks

Centrolene wrote:
Any highlighted text is covered with a full colour bar with no text visible under it. It just covers the text.
Is there a fast way of printing with no annotations or of fixing this problem and just print the highlights correctly?!
Just tested this to the iR C3380i using the UFR2 v2.24 and can replicate the symptom. I found that if you change the Graphics Mode from UFR2 to Raster, the text will print. To get to this setting, select to print with the UFR2 driver and change to the Quality menu. Then select Quality Setting button to show the Quality Settings pane. Here you will see the Raster Mode setting. Select and OK the change and now you can print the annotated PDF.
You will probably note that this workaround was the same solution to the Graphics Mode message that appeared with the previous version of the UFR2 driver with the 10.6.7 update. The v2.24 driver stopped this message from appearing but this latest symptom would suggest there is still something not completely right with this new driver, although I seem to remember there being issues with the older driver on earlier versions of 10.6 and the Graphics Mode setting was the only solution.

Highlights text in Preview: it's not viewable in PC apps

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for