How to remove all highlighted color

[usermac@adobeforums.com]

I have a PDF document with highlighted text that was created using the highlighter tool (sort of fluorescent yellow color marker) .

How to remove all such yellow color from part or from all the PDF document?

Thanks.

[Graham_O_Connor@adobeforums.com]

Open up the comments panel.
Select all those that contain the highlight color.
Select menu:
Edit=>Delete

[usermac@adobeforums.com]

Graham,

Thanks.

"Comments/Show Comments List" shows them and I can select and delete the color, but on a one-by one basis.

The document I am working with has 600 pages and thousands of words and sentences highlighted in yellow marker color.

I can also double click on a yellow-highlighted text and "Options/Delete" on the prompt window showing then, but again only on a one-by-one basis.

Any way to select and delete all yellow marks at once with a single click or so?

Thanks again.

[Graham_O_Connor@adobeforums.com]

If you want all the comments:

Open up the comments panel.
Select the top comment.
Go to the bottom of the comments panel.
<Shift-click> the bottom comment.
Edit=>Delete

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

The PDF-Optimiser is also good at removing objects ...

Jon

[usermac@adobeforums.com]

Hi,

Graham O'Connor: absolutely right. Besides, a testing 280 KB original file (no marks) became smaller (224 KB). The marked file was a whopping 2.6 MB.

Jon Bessant: "Advanced/PDF Optimizer/Discard Objects/Discard all Comments and form widgets/OK" also did the trick. And the file became 216 KB.

You guys are awesome. You made my day!
Many thanks.

[Ricky Kidd]

Open up the comments panel.
Select all those that contain the highlight color.
Select menu:
Edit=>Delete

Graham, this also worked excellently for me. Thanks for the tip.

[Visiting]

I have another highlight-related-problem:

I have a document in PDF that was highlighted in Word before converting it to PDF. Now I cannot simply select the text in PDF and hit the delete button... What to do?