Preview Text Annotation

It seems that the flow of adding text annotations to pdf files on preview has changed on Yosemite. Instead of allowing the user to place a text box with the cursor and then begin editing, the behavior has been updated with placing the textbox automatically. I can't seem to find any options to change this behavior to the way that it was back in OSX Mavericks, but does anyone know of a workaround?
Thanks.

I miss how the annotations used to work in the previous version of Preview!
I'm definitely not a fan of how the text box and note defaults to the center of the page. It's also very cumbersome having to continuously go to the toolbar to select text and note to get another text box or note to appear - and then having to move it from the center of the page to where I want it to be. I appreciated the older version where I was able to just click where I wanted the text box or note to appear and also being able to select text or note once and being able to just click with my cursor in multiple parts of the page to annotate. This was a lifesaver taking notes in class - now I'm missing half my notes because I have to constantly move the boxes. Very frustrating!
I used to also be able to just use command + and command - to make my text smaller or bigger in the text box - now it just zooms in and out of the page.
Preview used to be my highly recommended choice for annotating - but it's not as efficient anymore.

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I'm trying to change the following in preview text annotation:
1) text & underline/strikethru colour
2) font super-/sub-script
3) line spacing
I've read posts here suggesting clicking ⌘T to get to font menu which does come up but does NOT show any of above as options.
Within ⌘T menu, the gears drop down button does allow bringing up the colour palatte and there is also radial button choices for super-/sub-scripts, BUT none of those actually changes anything.
Any help much appreciated. Thanks.

Preview its a viewer only, you want to edit the text, use Textedit instead

How do you make superscripts and mathematics in Preview's text annotation?

When adding text annotations that include scientific notations, how do you make superscripts, e.g. "3.2 × 10^{-23}"?
Searching Help for 'superscript' turns up nothing, suggesting the command does not exist, as it does under Baseline etc. in iWork. Please tell me this is not the case! If it is, has the situation been improved in the new operating system?
A related issue: I wish to include other mathematics -- is there a way to include mathematics similar to LaTeX? Might Preview incorporate using latex code in the future, so I can easily type "\exp{-\lambda t}" etc and have the math appear?
I'm adding text annotations to PDF lecture notes in Preview, basically filling in blanks the instructor has left so students will pay attention in class, and these annotations include superscripts; I wish to format properly.
Thank you!

Once you have the circle shape displayed, long press on the border of the circle. Once it is highlighted, drag horizontally or vertically. This should allow you to distort the circle into an ellipse (or the square into a rectangle).
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Adding text annotation in Preview.app

Preview in Leopard seems to be missing the ability to add text annotation to a pdf like in Tiger. Yeah, I know annotations can appear to the left side of the pdf, but I want them right on the document.
Anybody see how to add text directly to a pdf with Preview in Leopard?

Yes Preview is really messed up. I can't find anyway to print a copy of my pdf WITH annotations showing up. And the bookmark implementation is absolutely nuts.
In Acrobat you can bookmark pages in a document so that you can later
easily find your way around a very large document. In Preview, it
appears that they have added this feature but it works very
differently. The bookmarks are more akin to bookmarks in Safari.
They exist outside of the pdf and they stay in your bookmarks menu
even when another document is open. This is. . . really odd. As yet
I have not found a way to tell Preview to just show me the bookmarks
for the open document. After you have added 10 or 20 bookmarks to 2
or more documents, the bookmarks menu quickly becomes useless. Also,
b/c the bookmarks are not stored inside the .pdf, they do not transfer
to Acrobat if you mail the document to someone else.
Whoever worked on this project did not see to know much about .pdf documents or how they are used in the real world.

In Preview, when I add text annotations to my PDF (lecture note slides), they look fine until I close it and reopen it, and then they are rotated 90 degrees. How do I fix this and keep it from happening again?

In Preview, when I add text annotations to my PDF (lecture note slides), they look fine until I close it and reopen it, and then they are rotated 90 degrees. How do I fix this and keep it from happening again?

I have the same problem with lectures slides.
Furthermore, sometimes the text box, when doube-clicking, turns the text into a one-liner. Causing the text box to sometimes get 3. times wider than the pdf itself.
tcrother wrote:
... then when it rotates the text isn't visible and I'm stuck clicking on random parts of my lecture slides hoping the text box will come back. ...
By pressing [cmd + I] the Inspector opens up and clicking on the rightmost tab 'Annotations' you should be able find those Annotations again. I do this regularly to find the empty annotations I accidentally create while clicking through slides.

Preview 5.0.3 keeps hiding my text annotations, forcing me to find them 1 by 1 and double click on them to show their text, is there a way to show all?

Somtimes, Preview 5.0.3 will hide my text annotations, forcing me to find them 1 by 1 and double click on them to show their text. After clicking on the Pen icon on the sidebar, i can see what slide numbers they are on, and have to go through 1 by 1 and double click them. For 200 slide classes, this becomes very annoying, is there a way to show all? or just to prevent it from hiding them in the first place?

And to answer the tecnical aspects of your post in detail:
--I want to know how to "see" what he has privately browsed
You can't.
-I want to know how to "see" what he has deleted.
You can't.
--I want to know if being his IPhone 5s and Ipad 3 are synced, is what I have found on the Iphone (**** sites) but they are NOT on the Ipad, so does that mean he browsed privately, but forgot to click on "private" on the Iphone? --
What is browsed on one device has nothing to do with what is browsed on any other device. If you see something in a browser history in the iPhone, then either he didn't click "private" or didn't clear the history on that device.
I also want to know if I synced both of our IPads, will what he looks at thru safari privately or not show up on my IPad Air? (most likely not, but I need to ask)
No. Again, browser history is not synced to other devices.
If he's surfing and either using Private Browsing or clearing the history, then there's no way you can see what sites he's visited. You'll just have to decide how to deal with that from there.
Regards.

Sticky Note (Text annotation)

Hello,
I decided to add some sticky notes (text annotation) in my pdf document and I was surprised to see that the sticky notes were not printed. I used the "Document and Markups" option for the print and even in the print preview the Sticky Notes were not present.
Regarding the PDF Reference a sticky note is a Markup so it has to be printed.
Is it a bug? A normal behavior?
While I select the "Print notes and pop-ups" option in the Preferences - Commenting then the Sticky is printed (but also all notes and pop-ups

The Preferences > Commenting > Print notes and popups option takes priority when printing sticky notes - if it's deselected, they don't print at all. If it's selected, sticky notes will print in whatever state they're in (collapsed or open) provided they don't have a non-print attribute set against them.
Most people don't want stickies to print, as by their nature they are either collapsed (hence meaningless on paper) or will obscure some other part of the page. Text markups, stamps etc. can be printed without such issues, hence the above preference defaults to off.

Text Annotation Options

I am making slides with text annotations and I am hoping I am
not limited to the cartoon-like boxes that are in the text options.
I am looking for something alittle more professional, hopefully
with some arrows. Please let me know! :)
TYIA

Hi Amy
There are a number of different Caption styles available. If
you don't like the list you see, scroll to the bottom and choose
"<Custom>". This should allow you to browse. If you look
where the Captions are, you should find a "More" folder. See if any
of those appeal to you. If none of those appeal to you, you are
free to create your own.
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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 =)

Text annotation icon

Hi would like to change a text annotation's icon.
I do the following code in the PDPageDidAddAnnot notification :
CosDictPutKeyString(cosAnnot,"Name",CosNewNameFromString(cDoc, false, getAnnotStyleFromXML(xmlLayer,annotClass)));
But is has no effect. I have the same pb if I want to change the filling color of Square and Polygon annot.
However I can change color for line, and polyline, it works.
I saw in the pdfReference that if an annotation has an "AP" dict it takes precedance over the "Name" key. So I tryed to remove the AP but it doesn't work too.
If someone has an idea,
Thanks in advance

Ok So I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong.
I do my changes then notify Acrobat : no effetc.
I try to remove AP Dictionnary : no effet
Here is my code may be I can help a bit more cause I'm totally lost now.
I have registered for PDägeDidAddAnnot and here the code I wrote :
ACCB1 void ACCB2 PDPageDidAddAnnot (PDPage page, PDAnnot annot, Int32 error, void * clientData)
char buf[512], annotFont[512];
ASInt32 pageNum;
AVDoc avDoc;
DURING
if (inPlugin)
writeLog("****************************************************************");
writeLog("[PDPageDidAddAnnot] - Récupère le document actif");
avDoc = AVAppGetActiveDoc();
writeLog("[PDPageDidAddAnnot] - Récupère la cosAnnot et le cosDoc");
CosObj cosAnnot = PDAnnotGetCosObj(annot);
CosDoc cDoc = PDDocGetCosDoc(AVDocGetPDDoc(avDoc));
writeLog("[PDPageDidAddAnnot] - Association avec le layer actif");
writeLog("[PDPageDidAddAnnot] - Creation du tableau d'OCG pour L'OCMD");
PDOCG t_annotOCGs[2]; t_annotOCGs[0] = myPlugActiveLayer; t_annotOCGs[1] = NULL;
writeLog("[PDPageDidAddAnnot] - Creation de l'OCMD");
PDOCMD annotLayer = PDOCMDFindOrCreate(AVDocGetPDDoc(avDoc),t_annotOCGs,kOCMDVisibility_AnyOn);
writeLog("[PDPageDidAddAnnot] - Association annot <-> OCMD");
PDAnnotSetOCMD(annot, annotLayer);
PDAnnotNotifyDidChange(annot,ASAtomFromString("OC"),0);
writeLog("[PDPageDidAddAnnot] - Recupère le type de l'annotation ");
CosObj aSubtype = CosDictGetKeyString(cosAnnot,"Subtype");
char *cSubtype = CosCopyNameStringValue(aSubtype,NULL);
writeLog(cSubtype);
//writeLog("[PDPageDidAddAnnot] - Détruit le AP Dict");
//CosDictRemoveKeyString(cosAnnot,"AP");
//PDAnnotNotifyDidChange(annot,ASAtomFromString("AP"),0);
//il faut différencier les types d'annot car pour les 'Text' et 'Line' on utilise la clé 'C'
//et sinon on utilise la clé 'IC'
//idem pour la couleur de bord elle n'est affectable que pour les Rectangle, polyligne, polygones et cercle' et on utilise la clé 'C'
if ((!strcmp(cSubtype,"Text")) || (!strcmp(cSubtype,"Line")) || (!strcmp(cSubtype,"PolyLine")))
writeLog("[PDPageDidAddAnnot] - Affecte la couleur de fond");
PDColorValueRec annotBgColor = getAnnotColorFromXML(xmlLayer,annotClass,"BG");
CosObj annotBgColorArray = CosNewArray(cDoc,false,3);
CosArrayPut(annotBgColorArray,0,CosNewFixed(cDoc,false,annotBgColor.value[0]));
CosArrayPut(annotBgColorArray,1,CosNewFixed(cDoc,false,annotBgColor.value[1]));
CosArrayPut(annotBgColorArray,2,CosNewFixed(cDoc,false,annotBgColor.value[2]));
CosDictPutKeyString(cosAnnot,"C",annotBgColorArray);
PDAnnotNotifyDidChange(annot,ASAtomFromString("C"),0);
if (!strcmp(cSubtype,"Text"))
writeLog("[PDPageDidAddAnnot] - Affectation de l'icone");
CosDictPutKeyString(cosAnnot,"Name",CosNewNameFromString(cDoc, false, getAnnotStyleFromXML(xmlLayer,annotClass)));
PDAnnotNotifyDidChange(annot,ASAtomFromString("Name"),0);
else
writeLog("[PDPageDidAddAnnot] - Affecte la couleur de fond");
PDColorValueRec annotBgColor = getAnnotColorFromXML(xmlLayer,annotClass,"BG");
CosObj annotBgColorArray = CosNewArray(cDoc,false,3);
CosArrayPut(annotBgColorArray,0,CosNewFixed(cDoc,false,annotBgColor.value[0]));
CosArrayPut(annotBgColorArray,1,CosNewFixed(cDoc,false,annotBgColor.value[1]));
CosArrayPut(annotBgColorArray,2,CosNewFixed(cDoc,false,annotBgColor.value[2]));
CosDictPutKeyString(cosAnnot,"IC",annotBgColorArray);
PDAnnotNotifyDidChange(annot,ASAtomFromString("IC"),0);
writeLog("[PDPageDidAddAnnot] - Affecte la couleur de bord");
PDColorValueRec annotBdColor = getAnnotColorFromXML(xmlLayer,annotClass,"BD");
CosObj annotBdColorArray = CosNewArray(cDoc,false,3);
CosArrayPut(annotBdColorArray,0,CosNewFixed(cDoc,false,annotBdColor.value[0]));
CosArrayPut(annotBdColorArray,1,CosNewFixed(cDoc,false,annotBdColor.value[1]));
CosArrayPut(annotBdColorArray,2,CosNewFixed(cDoc,false,annotBdColor.value[2]));
CosDictPutKeyString(cosAnnot,"C",annotBdColorArray);
PDAnnotNotifyDidChange(annot,ASAtomFromString("C"),0);
writeLog("[PDPageDidAddAnnot] - Affecte l'opacite");
CosDictPutKeyString(cosAnnot,"CA",CosNewFixed(cDoc, false, getAnnotOpacityFromXML(xmlLayer,annotClass)));
PDAnnotNotifyDidChange(annot,ASAtomFromString("CA"),0);
inPlugin = false;
HANDLER
ASGetErrorString(ERRORCODE, buf, sizeof(buf));
fprintf(stderr, "Error code: %ld, Error Message: %s\n", ERRORCODE, buf);
writeLog(buf);
END_HANDLER
Thank you Leanord for your help

Cell Text Annotations of Hyperion Planning on Hyperion Financial Reporting

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I haven't used the text data type, however I have done quite a bit of reporting on supporting detail. All you have to do is use a Hyperion Planning data source instead of an Essbase data source. (and specify on the report to show supporting detail). In general, Hyperion Planning data sources are slightly slower than Essbase data sources. How much slower depends on a lot of factors, but supporting detail can certainly slow things down.
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Yosemite crippled PDF text annotation with Preview.

In previous versions of preview, you used to be able to select 'textbox' markup tool and one-click create textboxes wherever you want on a pdf. Now, with the new Yosemite, selecting 'text' markup tool creating a textbox in the middle of the screen, not where-ever you click. This cripples the productivity of annotating lecture slides during a lecture. I don't want my text box to always appear right in the middle of the page- I want to click to place it.
Also, why is it vertically center justified- who, EVER, used vertically center justified text rather than vertically top justified text?
Are there anyways around this?

The link below provides instructions for annotating a pdf in Yosemite Preview, and additional links at the bottom of this page provide instructions for several other pdf editing capabilities:
Select and copy text in a PDF
Fill out and sign PDF forms
Add, delete, or move pages in a PDF
Crop or rotate a PDF
Add effects to a PDF
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20218?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US

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I tried below but they do not work.
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Thoughts?
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