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I found out I can highlight pdfs with okular in-file by the review tool, but everytime I use the highlighter, it gets turned off afterwards again, so to highlight the next piece of text I have to activate it again.

I would like to change this behaviour to 'toggle' on off by clicking (or pressing 4), and not have it turn off automatically.

I saw here that the tools can be modified, but it doesn't mention toggling.

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  • This definitely does not belong on this site, if you want someone to code a feature for you hire a developer. if you would like help after you have attempted to show what you have attempted how it's not working and perhaps people here will be able to help, do this as a new question and leave this closed or delete it. – Barkermn01 Nov 19 '21 at 01:17

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Double-clicking the tool solves it, as I found in a Bug report pointing to the manual.

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    cannot believe it was that simple :| – Krishh Apr 08 '16 at 19:25
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    can I ask how you found out? I don't see this shortcut pointed out anywhere. thanks, btw. – gccallie Feb 10 '20 at 08:50
  • As I wrote, the bug report points to the manual. if you search for "highlight" in the manual, there's a description of double-clicking, I found it on page 19. I found the bug report by ddging (duckduckgoing) "okular keep highlight on" or something like it. hope that answers your question, but I agree - It's a 'kind of hidden' feature as there's no menu switch or so in the okular interface. – TNT Feb 13 '20 at 09:10
  • For those who can't find the highlight tool : see https://askubuntu.com/questions/376136/cannot-find-highlight-tool-in-adobe-reader-or-okular. you can press F6 to access the tool. Nowhere in the menu is it shown. – Chan Kim Jun 16 '20 at 04:43
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You have to select the Pin button ( its the one at the right most) and then click the Highlighter button enter image description here

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Double-click didn't work for me.

Clicking:

  • "Highlighter"
  • and then "Keep Active" worked for me

(Press F6 if you don't see the "Highlighter button")

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  • I am not able to see "Keep Active". Where exactly is it? Edit: Okay, there's a "pin" button in the Annotations toolbar. Once you click that, Okular does not shift back anymore. – Pss Jun 29 '22 at 18:33