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Preview Tutorial - Mark Up Tools
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With Preview, you can open your PDF files and do some modifications to the files. Modifications can be done only when file isn't locked.
There are several useful tools in Preview that you can use. One of those is the Mark Up Tools.
Introducing Mark Up Tools
As the name suggest, this tool is useful for you to emphasize some parts of your PDF files. There are three mark up tools available: Highlight Control Command H, Strike Through Control Command S and Underline Control Command U. Don't worry about the shortcuts since they're easy to remember: take out the first letter and add Control Command in front.
If you still forgot what are they, you can always refer back to Preview menu Tools ▸ Mark Up. The tools can be seen there.
Using Mark Up Tools
It's really simple to use these tools. You only need to draw a selection, hit the keystrokes, and the part under the selection will be marked.
Marking Up Rectangle Areas
For the sake of completeness (and for the sake of avoiding short article), I will introduce you a killer trick to draw a rectangular selection in Preview.
Hold down Option key, move pointer a bit and the pointer should be in Crosshair mode now. After that, you can draw a region (like the one in screen capture mode) and all texts under the region will be selected. This trick is amazingly useful when you're marking up tabular kind of data.
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5 Comments
didit
thanks... it'e realy use to me
Carlos
Hi! at last I got an answer! Carlos
Dana
I can't even begin to tell you how much time you'll be saving me from now on!!!
Dana
I can't even begin to tell you how much time you'll be saving me from now on!!!
Amber
I have a question about the Preview tips you've offered, I'm familiar with using the mark-up commands, however, sometimes this option is available and sometimes the menu item is greyed out. Does any body know why this is and how to change it? In particular, I was highlighting a scientific journal article I had downloaded, but the file was really slow so I thought I’d try to save it instead of working from the Downloads folder. After saving it, I no longer had the option to highlight, what happened?? I checked the Inspector and the file is not Encrypted and I have full permissions to "copy text, print or make changes." I've seen a lot of people asking this same question around the internet, anyone know what's going on?
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