Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim won't highlight...help?

[Justin C. W. <ju...@ma...>]

> On Jun 6, 2015, at 14:05, Danny Nora Moloney <nm...@ya...> wrote:
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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? 

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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