Showing posts with label Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 March 2016

Choose Highlighter Colour to Mark-up PDF Documents with Acrobat Reader

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I open my Power and Phone PDF e-bills with Acrobat Reader DC (version at time of post is  2015.010.20060) and I like to highlight certain text and values then add a colored-text annotation to each one.




One of the annoyances I have put up with until today has been not knowing how to simply access the color picker for the highlighter tool before creating a highlight.


Once you've highlighted something you can then choose the properties and change the color for that highlight but that's tedious.
What I want to do is simply open the "Highlighter Tool Properties" tool bar, choose my color then highlight something.
 
... is there a menu option for that? Who knows ... I've not found it!
Luckily though, there IS an accelerator-key option - Ctrl+E

Now ... how about the "Add Text Comment" tools bar.
As soon as you choose Comment - Add Text Comment and click on the document to start adding text, the required tool control appears and you can select the text color, font, size etc.
Currently, when I want to edit an existing Text Comment I click on the border of the Text Comment container and that brings the Add Text Comment tool bar active.
Alternatively, re-selecting the Add Text Comment tool from the tool bar will also re-activate the control.
While that is fairly "usable", it would be nice if there was a way of activating the tool control while actually editing the text!
i.e. by an accelerator-key or right-click context-menu option.
  
If any knows of  a way please do comment.