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Highlighter
Drag across what matters. Hold Shift to keep the band straight along a line of text.
Drag across what matters. Hold Shift to keep the band straight along a line of text.
Why you would use it
To say “read this” without covering it up. A highlighter multiplies with the sheet, so the paper goes yellow and the print underneath stays black and readable.
For example
What to do
- Drag across what you want to mark.
- Hold Shift to keep the band straight.
Going further
It lays down a band several times the style weight, the way a chisel nib does, with flat ends so it stops where the word stops. It keeps its own style separately from the pen — a red highlighter isn’t a thing — and it multiplies in the exported PDF as well as on screen, so what prints is what you saw.
If you already use another program
In a PDF markup program: A highlight: a translucent band over words or a run of lines.