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[Skim-app-users] Skim won't highlight...help?
Danny Nora Moloney
10 years ago
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I have tried using Skim to highlight and underline in a couple pdfs with no success. In other pdf's however, it works fine. 
When I use the text selection the whole page turns yellow as if I just selected the entire page. 
Is it the pdf I'm using? 
Frustrated,Danny
Justin C. Walker
10 years ago
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Post by Danny Nora Moloney
I have tried using Skim to highlight and underline in a couple pdfs with no success. In other pdf's however, it works fine.
When I use the text selection the whole page turns yellow as if I just selected the entire page.
Is it the pdf I'm using?
I believe the answer is “yes”: if I open a .pdf that I know has been “scanned” (by a simple scanner, not by an OCR-type scanner), I get the same result: trying to select a single word gets me the whole page.

HTH

Justin

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Fran Calcraft
10 years ago
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There are definitely differences among PDF files. I wanted to change
the background colour of displayed PDF files, and the code I was given
to do that worked with some, but not all of them.
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