On writing on pdf

I cannot write on pdf as I used to. What do I get back to do it?

Hi, Jack.
Edit: I see Kappy has recommended ScribbleScreen. This permits you to write atop the existing screen, but your annotations do not become part of the PDF file itself. My answer below is from the viewpoint that you want to not only make real-time annotations, but to also add those annotations to the file.
I presume you are writing about annotating PDFs in Preview. It is possible to annotate PDFs — assuming the document's security permits this — using Preview, Adobe Reader, and Adobe Acrobat.
Unfortunately, the answer appears to be "No" in Preview and Adobe Reader. Adobe Acrobat has a set of Drawing tools, including a Pencil tool that would permit one to do some crude handwriting atop the document, but each "letter" is its own image.
Also, since Adobe Acrobat allows one to paste graphics into a PDF, you could try using the Drawing mode of Ink to handwrite a note and then attempt to Send it to Acrobat. Again, document security controls whether or not you can make changes to a given PDF.
In general, all three applications support text annotations as typed notes.
You're correct about the issue of being unable to change fonts in Preview's text annotations. This appears to be a bug. I selected some text in an annotation, Control-clicked the selected text, selected Show Fonts from the contextual menu, but changes made in the Font Palette were not reflected in the selected text.
Since you indicated you teach this math class "online" you might want to look into the features of the online facility you are using if you are teaching it live. For example, if you're using an online meeting service like WebEx, this might permit you to make handwritten annotations on the screen in which you and your students are seeing a specific PDF, but these notes would not be part of the PDF file itself.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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Why a pdf document with embedded fonts can be copied but is not searchable in pdf reader

I am writing a pdf files with embedded subset fonts. As required, I am including the ToUnicode and CIDSet objects. To test, I created a simple PDF with two Hebrew characters. I can select the two characters and copy to the clipboard, and paste it properly into another application such as Word. But I am not able to search for a word containing these two characters. Adobe Reader (or Acrobat) displays the message that the word was not found. So in essence, I have created a PDF document which can be copied properly, but is not searchable. Any idea what I might be missing when creating the document?
Additional information: 1. The file in question is a minimal file with just two characters. I have tested with many such files in many different languages including English. None of the files are searchable. 2. Curiously, if I search for the letter 'e', Adobe reader highlights an incorrect word, even if the letter 'e' does not exists in the file. 3. Adobe acrobat is also not able to search within this file, however when I save the file to another disk file, the saved file now is searchable. I confirmed that the major objects such as the font-file, ToUnicode object, CID object, and the font description objects are the same in the saved file. However, one of the font object is brought up closer to the top of the file. 4. FoxIt is able to search these files properly.
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I figured the app might have that ability - considering you can add text, highlight, add a signature, annotate and draw - so my thought was why not delete a page, or rearrange for that matter?.. That should be an option, this way we don't have to export to one of the other apps to delete or rearrange..
Thanks for the help, Bernd.
BTW if anyone is looking - PDF Max can do all of the above and delete and rearrange. With PDF Splicer you can delete and rearrange as well, but it has no other features.
And as for Steve Werner whose comment was deleted after it got to my inbox, it is much more than a Reader, as you can plainly see from the amount of tasks the Reader app can do above.

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