How can I add annotations (notes, in particular) as a PDF in preview of El Capitan?

I have a PDF file and I am trying to annotate, and I do not understand what to do. This is a test of the student, and I would like to add comments in the PDF file.

All I want to do is click on the PDF to indicate a comment at this time, and then type the comment so I and the student can be seen in the sidebar, but it seems to me to miss something fundamental about how to make this work (wasn't that easy a couple of versions ago?).

What happens now: the PDF file is opened. I open the toolbar of the Markup (by the way, can I have that open by default?). I move the pointer to the place where I want to add a comment. I press Ctrl-command-N, and I get an error beep. OK - if I click on the icon marked "Note", and a yellow box appears in the middle of the page. That is not where I want to. I have the mouse over it and hold the mouse to drag and... it does not move. Instead I am suddenly draw a line in the PDF file. Now just the small fountain pen symbol, and I can't move this note. I have to scroll down, press control-command-N... and hear a beep. Press again and it will beep. Press again and a new note will reappear in the middle. Again, I am trying to drag the note - but everything seems to be able to do is to draw a line. In the toolbar of the Markup, I see he's now on the sketch / icon "Pen and wavy line", even if I select that. I click on 'Note' again, and presto, there is another note, on top of that I was unable to move. So now, I have seven or eight notes, all piled up above the other in two different places on the PDF, with no way to move them.

What on Earth missing am me?

Thanks in advance!

For what it's worth: after closing and opening the PDF file, I am now able to move the note autour boxes, so it's an improvement. The mouse is no longer randomly to the "Sketch" icon for no apparent reason. I have no idea why it did not work before.

So my main issue now: How can I get notes or text to appear when the mouse is? Now a new note or the text always appears in the center of the window, which is not where I want it. Is this a defect, I can not change? And is it possible to add these annotations using just the mouse, with the Services menu or something similar? Right now his keyboard (or menu) to add the note or text, the mouse to move it where I want, then return to the keyboard to type. Inefficient, to say the least.

Tags: Mac OS & System Software

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