Annotating+a+PDF

=Annotating a PDF in Preview=

Preview has tools that allow you to mark up and annotate PDF files. It's easy to do and can be a powerful strategy for capturing your thinking as you read or for giving feedback to the writer. 1. Open the PDF file in Preview. 2. To highlight text, select the text you want to highlight. Go to the Tools menu and choose Markup > Highlight Text. If you prefer to use a keystroke, select the text and press ctrlcommand (apple key)-H. If you highlight some text and then change your mind, select the text again and repeat the process to un-highlight it. Notice that you can also strike through text or underline it. 3. You can also draw attention to a part of the document by drawing a rectangle or oval shape around it. To do this, go to the Tools menu and choose Annotate > Add Oval (or Rectangle). Your cursor will now become a cross hair. Move it to the upper left of the area you want to encircle, hold down your mouse button, and drag down and to the right. You will see an oval form that will grow as you drag your mouse. When you let up on the mouse button the oval will be dropped on the page. If you didn't make it quite the right size or if it didn't land in the right place, don't worry. You probably see a gray box around your oval. (If you do not see a gray box around your oval, double click on it.) This shows that the oval is selected and lets you change its size and position. Drag the lower right corner to resize the oval. Drag anywhere inside thebox to move the oval. You can delete the oval with your delete key. When the oval is exactly the right size and exactly where you want it on the page, click outside of the gray box. 4. You can also add a text note to the PDF. To do this, go to the Tools menu and choose Annotate > Add Note. As you move your mouse over the text you will see that it has again become a cross hair. Click in the text where you want to add the note. You will see a little icon that looks like a speech balloon. You can position that icon to point directly at the text you will refer to in your note. On the left of the page you will now see a column where the notes will appear. You will see the beginning of a note there with your name (or the name of your computer) and a date and time stamp. Click into it and type your note. If you decide later that you want to reposition the note or delete it, simply double click on the speech balloon icon to see a gray box around it. You can now drag the icon to another location. Notice that the note in the margin moves too. While the icon is selected (gray box around it) you can also delete it with your delete key.