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PDF documents are helpful standard documents since they can be viewed from phone or computer with its original format maintained. Now, in case that you are dealing with a PDF document with several pages and you want to mark important parts, then you need to highlight the texts. Highlighting your document makes it easier to organize and retrieve your important notes. To highlight PDF files you can use Mac inbuilt Preview feature. Now let's learn how to highlight PDF in Preview.
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| Annotate PDF |
Annotate PDF with highlight, underline, strikethrough, shapes, free-hand markups, sticky note and callout etc. |
Annotate PDF with highlight, underline, strikethrough, shapes and notes. |
| Highlight PDF |
Highlight text in PDF with a variety of colors. |
Highlight PDF text with limited colors. |
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Work well with Windows, Mac and iOS |
1. The first thing to do is to open your document with preview. On your PDF document control click and choose "Open with Preview" or you can drag the PDF file and drop it on Preview.
2. Navigate to the top right corner. Click on highlighter pen and it will be marked blue.
3. Select on the text you want to highlight and apply it. You can change the color of the highlighter on the tool bar. After highlight texts you can now save your document.
Step 1. Upload PDF to PDFelement
After downloading and installing Wondershare PDFelement for Mac, Open the program. Click on the "Open File" button at the bottom right. Select the PDF file to upload and click on "Open" button.
Step 2. Highlight Texts in PDF
At the top right corner, click on the "Highlight" button. Appearance window will appear at the right below it. Select the color and opacity that you prefer. From there, go your PDF and select a section of the texts. The texts will be highlighted.
Step 3. Add Sticky Notes and Draw Markup
Now click on the "Markup" button on the top toolbar. Click on the "Sticky Note" button and select on the text and the sticky note will be applied.
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