Guide: How to Edit Highlight Color in Adobe Reader
Occasionally, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC throws out quite a few annoyances to hinder productivity. Last time, we talked about how to deal with the persistently nagging Tools panel, as well as ways to get around the non-intuitive tabbed display in place. And today let’s take a closer look at another issue: the marking tool. Mess with the highlighter for a while and it seems like Acrobat Reader DC doesn’t offer an option to change the default color. Fortunately that is not the case. There are, in fact, several ways to switch highlighter colors – it’s just that Adobe has unnecessarily stashed them in places no one would bother looking.
Highlight the Properties dialog box
Let’s start by looking at a method for changing the color of your highlights after you’ve already applied them. Just right-click on the highlighted portion of the text and then select Properties – this should load the Highlight Properties dialog. Tip If you want to change the color of more than one set of highlighted words, hold down the Ctrl key and left click to select multiple items.
Use the color picker on the Appearance tab to switch to a different color. There is also a slider to change the opacity level of the selected color.
You can also set a default color while you’re at it – check the box next to Set properties.
Once you click OK, the new color should immediately replace the older one in the highlighted text. And if you checked the Make Properties Default box, you can also use the same color for the next highlights you run.
Highlighter toolbar
The above method is not very useful when it comes to changing color in real time. Fortunately, there is a faster and better way to use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + E to up the Highlighter Properties toolbar. Note: If the toolbar is not displayed up, click the highlighter icon and run the shortcut.
This handy toolbar stays put no matter what, and you can easily move it to any part of the screen. It consists of a palette to easily pre-select colors, as well as a drop-down menu to adjust opacity, which makes customizing colors a breeze.
And if that wasn’t enough, the toolbar also lets you always select the highlighter toolset, which actually helps a lot in quickly marking PDF documents with a lot of text. The opacity menu has five presets and while it doesn’t provide the level of precision that is present in the Highlight Properties dialog box, it is much faster to use.
Any color you select will then become the default highlight color, even if you exit and restart the application. Considering that the toolbar can be brought up and instantly closed, switching between colors and going crazy with your highlights is more than possible.
You could even forgive Adobe after messing around with this toolbar for a while – yes, it is that good.
Comment mode Color picker
There is another way to directly change highlight colors, which is to switch to comment mode. However, you will lose the real estate on the screen because of the extra toolbar and side pane that appears up subsequently. However, you can hide the latter. To activate the comment mode, click on View in the menu bar. Then point to Tools, select Comment, and click Open.
To change colors, simply use the color picker on the new toolbar and proceed to use the highlight tool. Any color you select also becomes the default color until you switch to another color.
As with the floating toolbar we talked about earlier, you can also keep the highlight tool selected by clicking the pin-shaped icon. And don’t forget to use the Opacity slider to tweak the colors even further. Note: To exit response mode, click Close button to the right of the toolbar.
Highlight Color on the iOS version
While Adobe Acrobat Reader DC on Android offers a highlight color picker right in the user interface itself, the iOS version isn’t quite as accommodating. But it’s pretty easy to change colors if you know how. Start by tapping a highlighted word or sequence wordsOn the menu that appears up, tap Color to transfer up the color picker.
Any color you select then replaces the current color and also becomes the default color for subsequent highlights.
You can also change the opacity of the color by tapping the Opacity option. And it will remain as your default opacity level if you want to change it later.
Again, it’s not a very useful method if you want to change colors on a regular basis. But unfortunately this is something you are dealing with.
Paint them well
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is an excellent reading and marking application up PDFs, but the user interface design can be tedious. Really, you shouldn’t have to look around to perform something so insignificant, right? I hope Adobe really takes note of these issues and makes necessary improvements in future iterations. Now that you know a few ways to change the highlighter color, what is your preferred method? Is it the floating toolbar? Let us know in the comment section below.
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