Highlighting text with the iPad-pencil

Ostfriesennerz
Hello,
I have a problem. I do not see the option to mark with the iPad pen in the tool list. Can anyone help me set this up?
  • dstillman
    edited August 5, 2024
    There's nothing to set up. There's a button in the center of the PDF reader toolbar to open up the annotation toolbar, which includes the ink annotation tool.
  • dstillman
    @Ostfriesennerz: If there’s something you don’t understand, you should respond here, not post to someone else’s thread.

    I missed that you were talking about highlighting, not inking. That’s just the first tool in the annotation toolbar.
  • Ostfriesennerz
    You are right! Sorry! But you see that Jessica has the icon of an „A“ and not of a pencil in the toolbar. Perhaps you have a solution?
  • dstillman
    edited August 5, 2024
    I'm not sure what you're referring to, so you'd have to share a screenshot. It's possible you have a much older version of the app with a different icon, but there's always been a highlight tool in the app.

    But as I said in the other thread, you can just try it. You can always delete an annotation you create.
  • Ostfriesennerz
    Here‘s the screenshot!
    https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u14528763/302bnhuf1dxz959n1l6m.png

    You see the „A“ instead of the pencil. In the Microsoft-App everything is okay.

    I‘ve download the newest Zotero for iOS.
  • dstillman
    Yes, the A is the highlighter tool. I'm not sure why you're posting here instead of just trying it for yourself?
  • Ostfriesennerz
    Believe me, I try it with the pencil of my ipad to highlight and I doesn' t work.
  • dstillman
    edited August 6, 2024
    Forget about the Apple Pencil for the moment — just enable that tool and make sure you understand how it works. It highlights actual text in the PDF. If you're viewing an image PDF with no text layer, there won't be anything to highlight. But as long as there is a text layer, you can use either your finger or the Apple Pencil to highlight text.

    There's also a different way of highlighting: you can leave the highlighter tool off, select text (with your finger or the Pencil), and then choose Highlight from the popup menu. Again, if you can't select text at all, that's a problem with the PDF.
  • mvasilak
    Hey @Ostfriesennerz, can you please let us know which version of the app you have installed?
  • Ostfriesennerz
    @dstillman: okay, that's an explanation that helps! Thank's

    @mvasilak: Version 1.0.40, Build 281, ios
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