Remove Shadows from Annotations in Preview

I had this same problem too. If you go to the line weight section and unclick the very bottom option (a line weight with a shadow) the shadow around the box disappears. It too me a long time to find this but the screen shot makes it much simpler. You can see I was trying to put make a white box with no border or shadow to cover something on a PDF.

Hope this helps someone!

williamfromsnoqualmie wrote:

If you are the programmer of Preview, please allow for shadows/no shadows.

No, we're just other users like yourself, trying to help each other out.

Try here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Regards,

Colin R.

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!

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..:)

Thanks for the tip. But I think Apple should definitively add the choice to remove that shadows in other annotation forms.

Besides, I've noticed that when you make annotations in another pdf editor, such as adobe's one, the annotations have no shadows; but when you open those annotated pdfs in Preview it adds them! Very annoying indeed!

Preview is certainly great, but some improvements are urgent (fading annotations, freewritting,...

Cheers,

J.

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?

Yes you are, the shadows may not show up with text but if you create a rectangle with say a white background you still have shadows. Please, Apple, bring back boxed text or let me toggle the shadows. They are useless and removing a function without letting us have something equivalent severely hinders my ability to use Preview.

I use that function A LOT to clean up faxes that have come in with artifacts or to edit a document quickly (essentially white out what was there and add text on top).

Same issue here, I use(d) it a lot to clean up scanned documents.

The closest function I found within Preview was the thought and speech bubbles. You can have white filling, white text, etc and then change the size/position of the bubble by dragging the gray dots around. It is the same as before just not rectangular any more and thus not that convenient. I might give Skitch a shot, though.

Hey Apple, please, give us back the white rectangle text tool. Anybody listening ???