Hello,
Can’t find an answer to these questions in the forums: 1) how can I delete a single highlight from a PDF? CTRL-Click gives me an option in the contextual menu for a highlight, but it isn’t visibly removing the highlighting where the cursor is located. I can delete highlights using the list of annotation. 2) how can I remove all highlights and annotations from a PDF file? Is there a command (hidden) or script?
I can confirm that; the Remove Highlight feature seems to do nothing (@BLUEFROG I created a highlight in a PDF using the appropriate command in the context menu in DT, and then attempted to remove that same highlight using the Remove Highlight command from the context menu - both not marking and marking the highlight beforehand; nothing happens. I assume this is a bug?).
That is not a DEVONthink command. It’s from macOS. Those at the top are, though @cgrunenberg would have to answer if the Take Note is ours or not as it does function.
Select a highlighted word in a highlighted passage and choose Format > Highlight or press Shift-Command-L. The highlight will be removed from the passage.
Select the highlight in the Document > Annotations inspector and press the Delete key
Yes, these two approaches do remove a highlight. Thanks. As @Blanc confirmed, the contextual menu command “Remove Highlight” does not.
Also, my second question was overlooked so far: 2) how can I remove all highlights and annotations from a PDF file? Is there a command (hidden) or script?
Why don’t you select all the (unwanted) annotations in the Document > Annotations inspector and press the Delete key?
As a secondary mechanism, you could also use Data > Convert > to PDF without Annotations. However, this will generate a new file so you’d likely want to remove the old one.
I was wondering PDFkit is playing nice with DT3. I don’t program with it, but I checked in Preview and the contextual menu “Remove Highlight” works there. Might be some profound incompatibility?