Corporate review identity

You can do it in a two-step process:

1) Use File > Save an Archive Copy to break the link between the PDF and the Shared Review, so the comments are unlocked.2) Run a JavaScript which updates the ".author" property of every comment, as below (you can put the code in a custom menu item or an Action if you do it often)



this.syncAnnotScan();
var annots = this.getAnnots();
for (var i = 0; i < annots.length; i++) annots[i].author = "John Doe";

Another option is this script, created by me:
http://try67.blogspot.com/2008/11/acrobat-anonymize-comments.php

As that script isn't free, and advertising commercial products is against the forum rules... *ahem*

From the guidelines: "Posting a brief mention of a product or service that is in direct response to a legitimate request from another participant is acceptable".

Your suggestion will work just fine, but my script provides a bit more flexibility, which is why I suggested it.

"If someone poses a query for which you believe you can offer ("sell") a product or service, please send your detailed reply privately to the original sender rather than post it to the forums."

We can link to a paid product or service from *another* vendor in direct response to a question. We can also link to free offerings from anyone, including ourselves. If the forums permitted self-promo of paid items, we would by definition allow all the spammers to post their links too!

I can talk about your products, you can talk about mine, but we can't talk about our own or the floodgates will open :-)

Spam is by definition non-solicited and not relevant to the topic of discussion, so my post definitely does not fall under this category. If the OP would have left a way to contact them personally I would have, but they didn't, so I posted a link to my website, for their consideration. I really don't see what's the harm in that, nor how it "opens the floodgates"...

Hello UVSAR (post #1), in the interim, your action solution has been tested on a five page review document and it works well. The JavaScript was inserted as an action, which ran when an individual page was opened. For a document of a few pages, opening the individual pages to run the JavaScript was OK. Thinking ahead to a 300 page document, we would prefer to run the JavaScript across all pages within the document and let the computer take the strain. I am not sufficiently familiar with how a document opens to know if your action solution triggers the change to all pages. Triggering an automated change to all pages is the ideal. Is this possible and how is it undertaken? Thanks.

The custom menu item solution has not been tested because we are not allowed to change the document submitted for review. Consequently running a macro (not sure of PDF term) to 'remotely' change the review document is the ideal. Any thoughts on how this can be achieved? Thanks.

Using "Tools \ Action Wizard \ Create New Action" to Automate Tasks in Acrobat seems to offer the full answer. Creating an action to run UVSAR's JavaScript appears to change the comment owners name on all pages of the selected document.