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Commenting in browser without collaboration set up

txstate05
Registered: Sep 29 2009
Posts: 13

Does anyone know how to enable the commenting toolbar while in the web browser? It is my understanding that the commenting is only allowed while collaboration is taking place but I found this link:

http://www.planetpdf.com/codecuts/pdfs/tutorial/AcroJS.pdf

that has the commenting toolbar available even though it appears that no collaboration is taking place. Is this enacted by javascript in the document?

The reason I ask is that I would like my customers to make comments while viewing the pdf in the browser and then saving it to their computer. It saves them from having to open the pdf twice and since I use the url search parameter, the search will not activate when they open it directly in acrobat.

This document may be a bug or something but it would be really handy if I can recreate the bug for my development (assuming the bug will last forever).

Any help is much appreciated!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.0, Windows
txstate05
Registered: Sep 29 2009
Posts: 13
i figured it out... all you have to do is add

Collab.showAnnotToolsWhenNoCollab = true;

in the document open javascript.
gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
The big 4.0 on the cover is not a grade point, it is the version of Acrobat that the document applies to. I would look for a newer version of that document or get a newer version of the JavaScirpt API Reference from Adobe.

George Kaiser

txstate05
Registered: Sep 29 2009
Posts: 13
i was just using it as an example of a pdf that had commenting available with no apparent collaboration server connected. The solution works great.