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New Commenting (Annotation):
Text Box or Highlight Tool (See Example PDF and Example PDFill Project File  )

A text box commenting displays a free text annotation directly on the page. It has no open or closed state. Instead of being displayed in a pop-up window, the text is always visible.

A Commenting Highlight Tool is a text box indeed. When it is created, it has zero border size, yellow fill color and 0.5 opacity.

Note: Adobe Reader will use its default font for PDF Commenting Text. So, the text style inside PDFill will be different than that inside Adobe Reader.
To exactly control  the text style (font encode, font name, font size, font style and rotation) in the PDF output , please use the Single Line Text or Multiple Line Text. You can convert the Commenting Text into the Multiple Line Text from Edit Menu so that the text inside PDFill will match the text inside the PDF output.

Please note that this tool adds Static Text that the user cannot change. If you need to add interactive text field that the user can fill and print, please use Text PDF Form Field.

1. Create a Text Box Commenting:

Here are the steps to create a Text Box:

• Choose Menu Insert > Commenting > Select Text Box Tool, or click the first button to the Selection Button in the Commenting Toolbar.

• Hold Left mouse button to create an area of the required size
• The new commenting properties dialog comes up to set options

2. Access the properties:

• Click the Selection button first.
• Click inside the area to highlight it and click Properties Button
• Or, click the edge shadow and double-click again
• Or, Key F4

3. Set the properties:

Here is the list of the properties.

Text String	the content text string to be displayed for the annotation.
Spell Checker	Verify the spelling of words in the text string box.
Author	The author of the annotation.
Subject	Text representing a short description of the subject being addressed by the annotation.
Show Border	If set, the border will display onto the page.
Border Thickness	The thickness of the border.
Border Color	The color for the border line.
Border Width	The line thickness of the border.
Border Style	Solid: a solid rectangle surrounding the annotation. Dashed: a dashed rectangle surrounding the annotation. Dash is the line length in point; Gap is the distance in point between the dashed lines.
Border/Text Color	The color for the border and text.
Rotate	The text direction inside the box: 0, 90, 180 or 270.
Highlight Color	The background color or the filling color for the highlight.
Hide Highlight Property Dialog	When the user use the Highlight feature, the property dialog will be hidden if this option is checked.
Opacity	The constant opacity value to be used in painting the annotation. This value applies to all visible elements of the annotation in its closed state (including its background and border) but not to the popup window that appears when the annotation is opened. The opacity vary from 0.0 (no contribution) to 1.0 (maximum contribution).
Printable on PDF	If clear, it will display and not print onto the page; If set, it will display and print onto the page.
Position (Left, Right, Top, Bottom)	The X and Y coordinate of the box to define the position of the field.
Font Encode	Click here to see the listed links to international graphical representations, and textual listings, of each of the Windows codepages that PDFill supports.
Font Name	Some font is empty for the selected Font Encode. You must play with several fonts to see if it works inside PDFill. Only affect the display inside PDFill.
Font Size	Font Size. Only affect the display inside PDFill.
Font Style	Font Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic. Only affect the display inside PDFill.
Set this field as default	If set, the new object will have the same properties as this one.

4. Screenshot:

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