change strikethrough width? (preview)

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change strikethrough width? (preview)

I am using preview to read PDFs and I highlighted a few lines by using the strikethrough tool.
The next day I continued highlighting but the strikethrough lines changed their width!
The older ones weren't affected, but all new ones I added from then on were much thicker and it bothers the **** out of me.
It now no longer looks like it did the first time, but instead the highlighted parts/lines are overlapping and just overall thicker.
I have googled my problem (unsuccessfully) and just can't figure out how to change it back to the original strikethrough "wideness".

Please help me! 😟

MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Feb 21, 2016 10:38 AM

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Answer 1

iwantpizza Author

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Feb 22, 2016 5:30 AM in response to dialabrain

It is, however, strikethrough in my case (at least that's what I thought). I do it with a right click on my touchpad and it says "strikethrough" and below are the colours to choose from...

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pinkstones

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Feb 21, 2016 11:46 AM in response to iwantpizza

I opened a PDF file I had on my computer in Preview to see if I could replicate your scenario, and I wasn't able to. There isn't an option to change the thickness of the strikethrough line, not that I've been able to find.

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Feb 21, 2016 1:15 PM in response to iwantpizza

Neither Preview, or Adobe Reader give you an option to change the thickness of the Strike-Through annotation. Another (kludge alert) solution is to use a line-segment of larger thickness placed over the text as an alternate annotation.

I find that a strike-through in Adobe Reader is thicker than in Pages with the same document at the same magnification. The following are from Preview 8.1 on El Capitan 10.11.3.

Preview default Preview w/Line Adobe Reader 15 DC default

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iwantpizza Author

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Feb 22, 2016 1:16 AM in response to VikingOSX

I guess its a bug then!
Didn't find that option either but strikethrough looks like this:

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dialabrain

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Feb 22, 2016 3:17 AM in response to iwantpizza

I'm confused which is pretty normal for me. Your screenshot looks like highlighting, not strike through.

Here's my screen shot, strike through in red, highlighting in yellow.

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dialabrain

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Feb 22, 2016 5:50 AM in response to iwantpizza

Interesting, it seems in Preview in the drop down menu it does indeed say "strike though". Nothing like consistency. 😁

It should say Highlight. In any case, Preview does have a few rendering problems. Hopefully fixed in a future version.

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iwantpizza Author

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Feb 22, 2016 8:33 AM in response to dialabrain

...so there really is no solution here? It definitely is a bug and not something I can fix myself? 😟

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ChitlinsCC

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Feb 22, 2016 8:40 AM in response to iwantpizza

Not a DIYer 😟

Preview (Yosemite): Annotate a PDF

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Highlight, underline, or strike though text

Highlight, underline, or strike through text: Click the down arrow next to the Markup button and choose a highlight color, underline, or strikethrough. Then select text. You can also mark up selected text by clicking the Markup button , or by Control-clicking the selection and choosing a markup item.

Remove markup: Select the text again using the same markup tool with the same color. You can also, Control-click the marked up text, then choose .

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