When will Apple reintroduce in Preview a palette of real colors for highlighting text rather than the drab lackluster 5 colors that seem to be our lot since the phasing out of the AMAZING Snow Leopard?
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Original Title: Preview: the lackluster colors
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.7
As a workaround, instead of using Highlight Text colors, use the Markup tools.
Create a box shape with whatever fill color you like and without a border. Then place it around the text you wish to highlight and adjust the Opacity to 50% or so.
Annotate a PDF in Preview on Mac - Apple Support
The result would look something like this:
As a workaround, instead of using Highlight Text colors, use the Markup tools.
Create a box shape with whatever fill color you like and without a border. Then place it around the text you wish to highlight and adjust the Opacity to 50% or so.
Annotate a PDF in Preview on Mac - Apple Support
The result would look something like this:
Something like this?:
I'm kidding of course, but if you need more granular control of colors, you can use the Markup option and create a filled rectangle over the text you want to highlight it, set the color to whatever you want and reduce opacity so it acts like a highlight.
click here ➜ Annotate a PDF in Preview on Mac - Apple Support
Guess I took too long to write the reposes. whoops.
Unlike the free Adobe Acrobat Reader whose annotation properties allow Highlight color picking, Apple's Preview has never featured a highlight color picker. As strictly fellow user-supported public communities, we have no access to internal Apple product planning.
If one can infer from history, Preview has not had a color picker even when implemented in NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, so highly unlikely to receive that capability now.
You will have to decide if you want the extra labor of the color filled and transparency adjustment steps to implement the rectangular annotation alternative to each Highlight annotation suggested elsewhere in these threads. A filled rectangle solution is portable when opened in the current Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Or just switch to Adobe Acrobat Reader (and keep it updated) to initially apply Highlights in your own custom color without other efforts. The Adobe product does not feature a menu driven Highlight color selection, but one can add custom Highlight annotation colors to the Apple Color Picker that Adobe uses.
I was going to recommend the free Skim PDF Reader but when I change the color of the annotation highlight using the toolbar color picker, that Highlight does not appear in Apple's Preview, or in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Phil0124 wrote:
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Guess I took too long to write the reposes. whoops.
Happens to me all the time. 🤣
How do I access a wider range of colors for highlighting text in Preview?
