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Puccaleo
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Trouble highlighting document

Post by Puccaleo »

I'm new here and new to the program. I have been using it for about 2 or 3 weeks. It's worked well so far. One of the papers I am reading will not allow me to highlight. I can draw on it and add stickies but I can't highlight, strikethrough, or underline the text. Does anyone know why?
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Bhikkhu Pesala
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Re: Trouble highlighting document

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Does it actually contain any text? Some PDF files are just scanned images of text.

Check the security tab of the document properties too (Ctrl D). It may be that content copying is not allowed.
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Re: Trouble highlighting document

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If it is an image based PDF - you may want to read this on how to 'simulate' this efffect here :

http://preview.test.frontierwebdev.com/ ... nly-images
If posting files to this forum - you must archive the files to a ZIP, RAR or 7z file or they will not be uploaded - thank you.

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