Hello, I have a PDF document in Preview (OS X Lion), and I'm trying to insert a "whiteout" area--basically a white box with no border or shadow. However, no matter what I do, I can't seem to create an annotation rectangle without some kind of border showing up. Actually, it looks more like a shadow than a border. Am I missing something? Is this possible with Preview?
Thanks!
Preview-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Preview > Tools > Annotate > Add Boxed Text
then customise the color of the border and/or fill to match your background.
Boxed text is missing in Mountain Lion.
I tried resetting the border colour but I still had a shadow. How can one turn off the shadow, I couldn't see a way in the inspector screen? Wouldn't a default with no shadow be better?
So what? OP is running Lion and these are the Lion forums.
This drives everybody nuts, and Apple does nothing about it. My guess is there's somebody with a patent -maybe Adobe- forcing them to keep the damned shadows.
The only decent solution seems to be the free app Skitch. Reveiws are 100% negative on the latest version, which has been stripped of features (Adobe, again?), but you can still get the older versions at http://www.oldapps.com/mac/skitch_for_mac.php I use version 1.0.12, which works with Mountain Lion.
There's also GIMP, which is a powerful program but has a learning curve like the Matterhorn.
Ha I know this is old but I've been hit by the same issue and preview just doesn't provide the solution unfortunately. However, what did solve my problem without the need to download extra software was this website. Very useful and provides exactly the simple whiteout function preview should, upped, fixed and downloaded my PDF within a minute. Job Done. Hope you find it useful (even though the issue is very old!)
I'm on a MacBook OS X version 10.9.5, and I'm using Preview verson 7.0
1. Click on the button to "show edit toolbar"
2. Select a "rectangle" shape, and give it a white border and white fill.
3. Click on the "edit toolbar" icon that's the farthest to the right. It shows a series of lines, and it will provide a drop down menu that gives you the option to change the line thickness.
--At the bottom of that drop down menu, there should be an option for "Shadow", and you can select or deselect it as you want.
Worked like a charm for me. Hope this helps!
That's it! The shadow indicator is not wicked obvious. uncheck it and it's gone! Thanks.
OS X Preview: Insert a white box with no border?
