Is there anyway to highlight pdfs in preview. I do not like using those red ovals. I mean I can select the text and is light blue but there is no way to get that to stay. Any suggestions?
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I think the answer is "No," but I'd love to hear an alternate answer. You can always get Adobe Acrobat Reader.... I like that feature a lot, but I don't think I will get Acro Reader just for that. 
No I tried. But Acroreader is free.mkrishnan said:I think the answer is "No," but I'd love to hear an alternate answer. You can always get Adobe Acrobat Reader.... I like that feature a lot, but I don't think I will get Acro Reader just for that.
jessica. said:
link please? the site I looked at required a membership in order to get the free download
dukebound85 said:
To get Acrobat Reader? What site did you try? Select your OS version and click the download button.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Acrobat reader is good, but when it installs it makes itself the default reader for all pdfs. To reverse this (if it annoys you as much as it annoys me) you need to do two things ...
1. "get info" for a pdf (any pdf), scroll down to the "open with" section and replace Adobe reader with another reader of your choice (I prefer Preview because it loads faster) then click "change all". This makes the default reader Preview but does not preclude you from opening a given file with Adobe reader for markup.
2. Abobe reader inserts itself as a toolbar in your browser. This annoys me as well. To get rid of it you need to go into Adobe reader preferences, go to the Internet tab, uncheck all the boxes, close preferences, close Adobe reader, and restart your browser.
1. "get info" for a pdf (any pdf), scroll down to the "open with" section and replace Adobe reader with another reader of your choice (I prefer Preview because it loads faster) then click "change all". This makes the default reader Preview but does not preclude you from opening a given file with Adobe reader for markup.
2. Abobe reader inserts itself as a toolbar in your browser. This annoys me as well. To get rid of it you need to go into Adobe reader preferences, go to the Internet tab, uncheck all the boxes, close preferences, close Adobe reader, and restart your browser.
kiwi-in-uk said:
Do you have to do anything special to prevent Acrobat from being used as a plug-in to view PDFs in the browser, or is that subsumed in your directions?
God, one of my biggest peaves on Windows is how Acrobat pops up a window way in the back, that isn't seen by the start bar, telling you an update is available, and appearing to "crash" MSIE or Firefox. Ugh.
OK thanks for all the help. However, I see that my pdf's are not enabled for commenting. How do I get them to be enabled? I create my pdf's from websites and then go to the print screen and select save as pdf. So I guess my question is how do I get these to become enabled for commenting? Thanks
In preview select the text you want to highlight: go to Tools -> Mark Up -> Highlight Text
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