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how to draw shapes in Preview with no fill

This used to work. Somehow it is turned off and I can't see how to switch it back.

Using Preview, I want to draw a shape on a .png with 'no fill' - IOW transparent fill.


I'm running OS X 10.11.5.

Are there docs for this that I'm not seeing? I looked...


My steps:

Using OS X 10.11.5, in Finder, double-click a .png. Preview opens.

Click the 'show markup toolbar' icon. Markup toolbar opens.

Click the 'shapes' icon. Shapes menu opens.

Click the square shape icon.


Expected result:

A square shape opens with 'transparent' fill - so I can still see the .png image inside the shape.


Actual result:

A square shape opens with fill that overwrites the content of the .png.


There should be a 'no fill' selection somewhere. Where?

OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Dec 10, 2016 5:02 PM

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Posted on Dec 16, 2016 8:47 AM

I figured it out...

  1. click 'Show Markup Toolbar'
  2. on the toolbar, click 'Fill Color'
  3. on the 'Fill Color' dialog, click the button with the diagonal red slash (near the upper left corner)
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