Markup tool will not be activated

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I added the markup tool to toolbar. But when I open a pdf document it doesn’t get active.

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Which macOS do you use? Big Sur?

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No. I’m using High Sierra.

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Seems it’s only for PDFs which are attached to RTF

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Yes! It works with merged pdf files.
But now is there a highlight tool for regular pdfs in Devonthink native pdfviewer?
Now, I select the text and then highlight it and then add note to highlight. Is there a shortcut to add note to selected text directly?

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You can highlight via menu Format > Highlight or the contextual menu.

Not sure what you’re doing (as I seldom use DEVONthink’s Annotatios feature).

However you can assign shortcuts to menu items in menu Tools > Annotate and Tools > Mode.

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Thanks.
I’ll try it.

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Are you aware of the Editing Bar at the top of e.g. PDF records?

Help > Documentation > Documents > PDFs

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No, I did think that it must exist, but I couldn’t find it.
Very helpful.
thanks

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The tools you’ll find there are also available (but not sure if all) via menu Tools > Annotate and Tools > Mode so you could assign shortcuts to often used ones.

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Of course, in my version 3.5.2 the address is as follows:

Tools > Mode