Remove Shadows from Annotations in Preview

I'm sorry, I didn't think I was whining. I was just posting to help anyone reading this thread who couldn't find FULL BLOCK in Character Viewer. Unless you were addressing macobs30's post saying "It works!" ;-)

I'm unclear about the rest of your post. Why would you talk about MS Paint on an Apple forum? I don't post about Okular and eVince.

I'm well aware Preview is for viewing files. But then, Apple gives us lots of editing options with Preview. And one of them *WAS* the ability to have shadow-less blocks. They're removed that. And I, like everyone here, I presume, am just trying to find a more elegant way of blocking out sections of documents I'm submitting to my company for reimbursement. But I don't care enough to buy or find software to load on all the macs I might use to do that, and they can deal with mysterious shadows (as they do now, since I don't have a good solution for it).

I appreciate that you found a relatively simple solution. I just didn't see FULL BLOCK anywhere in the Character Viewer.

in the latest version you can also use a small selection on a similar color area, e.g. white. then copy it and paste it, it will appear somewhere else with handles. then you can move these handles (e.g. move and/or stretch) that over the offending area and then block things out like that.

I would recommend Skim - only just started using it but seems well featured, quick and not buggy. Non shadow text edits within a few minutes of download. Plus plenty more - and it's FREE.

I tried Skitch but it's latest version is oddly something of a downgrade and also insists on logging you in to Evernote before working with PDFs. Give it a Miss.

Oh - and Apple, fine if an app doesn't include a particular feature from the start but why the **** take a good feature away and p*** everybody off.

For Mountain Lion, the FULL BLOCK technique does work...BUT, you have to search for it in the "Characters" window.

Here is a revision of jpdemers' instructions...

1. Use Tools -> Annotate -> Text to create a text box.

2. Create a box by dragging your mouse across the screen.

3. Open up Characters (Option-Cmd-T).

4. In the search pane on the upper-right hand corner, type "FULL BLOCK"

5. Under "Unicode Name" you should see this: █

6. Drag as many as needed into your text box.

From there, I trust that you know how to change the color and the font size.

(A SHORTCUT: Create your text box and copy this square █ into it. Then play with the color & the font size.)

Also - you can still draw a "Speech Bubble" and cover the offending parts with that. Speech bubble has no shadow and can be colored white with white border. Its more difficult to cover some things with the bubble than with a rectangle would be, but it works.

There is a menu item to remove shadows. When you have selected the Rectangle or Oval there is a line thickness selector. Click on that and at the bottom is 'Shadow' which is selected by default. Uncheck and your shadow is gone.

Here is how you can do this... use 'Add Box Text'. Make the background and boarder the same color of your background.

(Took me alittle time to remember how I did this..:)

Same frustration here. Any news anyone? Very annoying to be able to blank out text, but then for people to see that you've blanked it out!

Thank you!

Exactly the same here. Contract editing and cleaning-up scanned documents from dust and marks ....

Adding the "Boxed Text" works! Thanks for the great hint.

The shadows are really annoying but the boxed text trick works great.

thanks.

Anyone know how to do this using Preview in Mountain Lion? Boxed Text is no longer an option (at least, not that I can see...).

There's no box around the annotation either, hence no shadow. Am I missing something?