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Can I have two different color highlight buttons at once?

hughschmittle
Registered: Aug 11 2010
Posts: 6

I have a single Highlight Color button in my menu. It happens to be yellow. If I want to highlight something in a different color, say, blue, then I have to right-click to bring up "Highlighter Tool Properties", then click on the color button, and choose the blue color, and only then highlight the text in the new color. HOWEVER, as I blow through a PDF to edit I very often want several different highlight colors. It would be a great time-saver if I could create and have several color highlighting buttons displayed simultaneously in my menu bar, so I could just Highlight-Text/Click-Blue, and then Highlight-Text/Click-Yellow, and so on. Is this possible, either with my Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.3.3, or with an Add-On? [Same question, really, for establishing multiple Underline Color tool buttons.] Thanks in advance.

hugh

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Macintosh
kenny.eliason
Registered: Nov 2 2010
Posts: 2
I have the same question. I was surprised that I wasn't able to find the answer on google somewhere. This seems like a feature that many people would be interested in having.
2arnold2
Registered: Jan 11 2011
Posts: 2
opening the 'property bar' dock is a pretty good solution (shortcut is ctrl+E) -- do this step AFTER the highlight tool is selected:

1) select highlighting tool
2) press ctrl+E

this will open the properties dock and the highlight palate should appear (which will still be one-color-at-a-time

it basically removes the 'having-to-select-properties' step and leaves the highlighting palette open, but you still have to take the step of altering the highlight color BEFORE you highlight new text....so the properties dock eliminates one step...which is something...

J.Arnold

gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
You might be able to add custom toolbar buttons for each highlight color.

George Kaiser

2arnold2
Registered: Jan 11 2011
Posts: 2
gkaiseril wrote:
You might be able to add custom toolbar buttons for each highlight color.
I like that idea -- I was trying to figure something like that out -- just haven't got it yet

J.Arnold

Registered: Apr 26 2011
Posts: 2
I agree, those two buttons are needed.
colleeno
Registered: Nov 1 2011
Posts: 2
Is it just me; shouldn't this be in the User's Guide?

They could say somewhere, somewhere easy to find, that you change the highlight color using ctrl+E. It's not exactly an intuitive leap . . .

Colleen O'Rork

gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
You can add tool bar buttons for each stamp, Automatically Add Buttons to a PDF, Stamps in Acrobat X, and Stamps Gone Wild at Pdfscripting.com.More documentation is in Adobe Acrobat's JavaScript API Reference.

George Kaiser