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Lighthouse
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I need help with the highlight tool.

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I am a newbie with Version 7, build 325. When I select Tools>Comment and Markup Tools>Highlight Text tool what is supposed to happen according to the manual is: When the Highlight Text Tool is selected, the pointer icon changes when it is hovered over text. Click and drag to highlight text:

Well, all I get is a crosshairs box select tool that disappears when I release the mouse. OK, I'm an admitted newbie with PDF-XChange Editor and still in need of some hand-holding.
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Re: I need help with the highlight tool.

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It seems that you are trying to highlight image, not text. Probably you should do OCR this file/page first ...
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Re: I need help with the highlight tool.

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If your PDF is an image, create a custom line with properties as shown below and use for highlighting.
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Re: I need help with the highlight tool.

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Hello All,
Another solution is the rectangle tool, using style palettes you can create a "Highlighter" tool by using the Multiply blend style:

Image

Results in:

Image

Hope this helps!
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Re: I need help with the highlight tool.

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Thanks to all. You folks are obviously knowledgeable with this product. I think my first step is to become familiar with, and routinely use the OCR feature. I'll be working primarily with scanned documents which apparently save as image files. As I use PDF-XChange Editor I'll post questions here. Maybe at some point I'll be able to help other novices. Thanks again.
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Re: I need help with the highlight tool.

Post by Tracker Supp-Stefan »

Hello Lighthouse,

Glad we could provide assistance!
Please also make sure to check our KB articles:
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowledgebase
As quite a few frequent questions and the most common features are already explained there.

Of course - if you can not find anything there - feel free to open up new topics, and we are looking forward to the time when you will be able to assist other novices!

Regards,
Stefan
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