Hightlight text in PDF on Mac with Preview

In the past, when you were reading a PDF document and found some interesting contents, it was disturbed if you wanted to highlight text in PDF. Alternatively, someone in your group had to buy a copy of Adobe Acrobat Professional version while paying hundreds of dollars to allow you all to highlight PDF text. But now, this problem can be easily solved for all Mac users, the Preview function, default built in all Macs, allows you to hightlight text in PDF on Mac for any content in the PDF document to call attention to specific sections in PDF.

 

Actually, Apple’s Preview is more than just a PDF reader, viewing PDF files and graphics, or running slide shows. Preview function, installed on all new Macs, allows you to highlight text in PDF on Mac, annotate PDF on Mac, merge many PDF files to one, print multiple images on one page, etc - you can do all above without using the professional version of Adobe Acrobat, just with the simple Preview function, which is default built in Mac OS X.

 

How to highlight PDF text on Mac OS X with Preview? Follow me.

 

When you are reading a PDF document and want to highlight text in the PDF.

First, click the Annotate button on the toolbar; several annotation buttons appear at the bottom of the Preview window, including Arrow, Oval, Rectangle, Text, Note, Link, Highlight, Strikethrough, Underline, Color Menu, Line Width Menu, and Font Panel.

 

Second, click the highlight button as above, and now you can select the PDF text you want to highlight.

 

Done! The process to highlight text in PDF on Mac is really easy, isn't it? You don't need the help of a third party software to do this and can do this at any time on any PDF pages. Preview function is really excellent, you can not only highlight PDF text, but also add bookmarks or comments and notes to PDF.

 

Of course, Preview doesn't allow you to edit PDF text on Mac OS X, just as a note to remind you of some important parts in a PDF file. If you want to edit PDF text on Mac OS X, you'd better convert the PDF file to editable Word document and then edit PDF in Word.