How to Highlight Text in a PDF Document. In this Article: Article Summary Using Adobe Reader DC Using Preview on Mac Community Q&A This wikiHow teaches you how to highlight text in a PDF document using Adobe's free Adobe Reader DC app which is available for Mac or PC, or using the Preview app on Mac. How to Highlight in PDF on Windows PDF is one of the most popular document sharing platforms on the market due to the many advantages it has over other formatting options. The one disadvantage however, is that it's often difficult to make edits to PDF files, such as highlighting text in PDF.
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Annotate PDFs with Apple’s Preview Mac Tip #399, 26 August 2009. Use the Text Tool. In order to mark up a PDF with Apple’s Preview you need to have the Text Tool selected. Find it either on Preview’s toolbar or under the Tools menu. I’m currently reading a PDF and when I highlight a passage, the highlight width seems oblivious. When it comes to text highlighting, it will surely come in handy, for it has a Highlight Text Tool which you can use in PDF documents that enable commenting. Follow these quick steps to highlight text in PDF file utilizing this program. Does anyone know of an app that will let me highlight sections of text in pdf files, other than Adobe Acrobat?
The Highlight Text tool in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional can be used to flag text for attention. This may be done because you want to flag text for revision or simply to draw the reader's eyes to the highlighted text.
Start Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and open a PDF from your files that contains text that you want to highlight so it will be flagged as needing attention.
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Choose the 'Highlight Text Tool' from the 'Comment & Markup' toolbar. The button is the fourth button from the left and is depicted by a picture of a yellow highlighter and sheet of paper. Once you click this button your cursor will turn into an 'I' beam inside of a box.
Click and drag over the text that you want to apply a highlight using the Highlight Text tool.
Release the mouse when you are finished making the selection. A yellow highlight will be applied to that text you have just selected.
Continue to highlight any text that you would like to flag for attention using the Highlight Text tool.
Click the 'Select Tool' from the 'Select & Zoom' toolbar when you are finished working with the Highlight Text tool.
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If you don't see the 'Comment & Markup' toolbar on the Acrobat screen, then you need to display it. To do this, choose the 'View' menu, point to 'Toolbars' and click on 'Comment & Markup.'
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As a basic presentation tool, Highlight for Mac enables users to draw on their screen using a mouse or trackpad, and does it fairly well, with only minor frustrations along the way.
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Highlight for Mac costs just under a buck and is available through the Mac App store. Once purchased, it downloads and installs quite easily. There were no hints or quick tutorials on first launch, nor is there a Help file or even a Preferences panel accessible from the menu bar. However, there is a direct link to an online manual available on the app's official Web site. The manual consists of listing the 10 keys or key combinations that impact the behavior of this application, like changing the shapes you can draw and how to delete what you've done. We wondered why this couldn't have been included as a Help file from within the app, but it was a fairly minor quibble. The manual also lists the key combination that opens up the Preferences panel, more information that would have been easy to include in-app. Once we got past these initial bums, and it was a matter of minutes, we were using the app with ease. One major feature this application lacks, though, is the ability to draw over apps in full-screen mode, which seems a natural fit for a presentation.
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Highlight for Mac leaves room for minor improvement, but these should be easily fixed in future releases. The app is useful for teachers and Mac users who give computer-based presentations.