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tomsem · 06-04-2026, 10:53 AM

(cross posting here from the 5.19.4 thread)

Scribe Colorsoft now (after updating to 5.19.4.0.1) has all three Highlight styles: Highlight, Underline, and Outline. Highlights can be in 5 colors, the other 2 can use any of the 10 colors.

With Pen set to a drawing tool (Pen, Fountain Pen, Marker, Pencil, Shader), underlining generates underline highlight, and encircling a text selection outlines it.

With Pen set to highlight or select/fingertip tool, it uses highlight style when you hold on a word and then drag to select.

Fingertip highlights by default but then you can apply the other styles to the selection by tapping on it, and remove highlight style as before.

The three styles can be applied to the same selection independently.

Sync between my 2 Scribes (the other is 2022 Scribe) is a little slow.

The colors get flattened to grey (for highlight) and black (for outline). And of course other Kindles and the Kindle apps do not show Outline or Underline highlights at all.

06-04-2026, 10:53 AM	#3
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,219 Karma: 28000007 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPad Mini, Kindle Colorsoft, Kindle Scribe Colorsoft	(cross posting here from the 5.19.4 thread) Scribe Colorsoft now (after updating to 5.19.4.0.1) has all three Highlight styles: Highlight, Underline, and Outline. Highlights can be in 5 colors, the other 2 can use any of the 10 colors. With Pen set to a drawing tool (Pen, Fountain Pen, Marker, Pencil, Shader), underlining generates underline highlight, and encircling a text selection outlines it. With Pen set to highlight or select/fingertip tool, it uses highlight style when you hold on a word and then drag to select. Fingertip highlights by default but then you can apply the other styles to the selection by tapping on it, and remove highlight style as before. The three styles can be applied to the same selection independently. Sync between my 2 Scribes (the other is 2022 Scribe) is a little slow. The colors get flattened to grey (for highlight) and black (for outline). And of course other Kindles and the Kindle apps do not show Outline or Underline highlights at all. Last edited by tomsem; 06-04-2026 at 10:57 AM.