Incorporate Highlight Permit For Free

How to highlight a PDF. Select the highlighter tool from the horizontal toolbox located at the top of the PDF editor. Select the desired color of your highlighter tool. Click and drag the cursor to select the text area to highlight, releasing when you've finished.

This happens when the file was created in a non-standard way, or is the result of a partially successful OCR process. Basically there's nothing you can do about it with the free Reader. Report this issue to the author of the file and ask for a new version.

Ensure the PDF Is Not Restricted Considering that possibility, the PDF that doesn't allow you to highlight or select text may also be restricted to read-only mode. So, confirm whether the PDF's author has placed certain restrictions on it.

Here you go: Open your PDF file>Click File> Click Print> Printer = Adobe PDF>Click Print>Save as (Give this file name a new name)> You can now highlight as normal. You will notice some of the pages are flipped around, so you will need to rotate them. This should solve the issue.

Most likely because the file is composed of images (possibly scans) and does not contain any "real" text. If you can't select the text with the text selection tool then you can't highlight it, either. Use other markup tools, like the Square tool, instead.

Select the highlighter tool from the horizontal toolbox located at the top of the PDF editor. Select the desired color of your highlighter tool. Click and drag the cursor to select the text area to highlight, releasing when you've finished.

One of the most important reason due to which users can't highlight text in PDF document is the ?Comment Restrictions?. When this type of security is applied on the PDF files, the Adobe Reader ?Highlight Tool? stops working or gets greyed out.