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Summarizing comments

johnmolina
Registered: Mar 27 2008
Posts: 76

Hi,

I hope this is an easy one.

We have users that are reviewing documents and commenting. They have to not only add a comment, but also have to draw lines and arrows to a specific place on a map, etc.

Each one of these is listed as a comment. Is there a way to summarize into one? It is creating dozens of comments on a document, when in reality, there is only 4 or 5.

Thank you.

daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
John,
Any feature used from the Comment & Markup menu places a discrete Annotation on the PDF's page.
If review01 uses a sticky note, a stamp, a callout, and an arrow then 4 Annotations now exist on the page.
If a total of 5 reviewers do this then there are 5 x 4 = 20 Annotations on the page.
Often use of some Annotations (i.e., an arrow or line) will have no text associated with it.
If a Summary Report is configured to show connectors between document and comment (the Annotation)
there will be no text in the "comment" portion of the report. If this is an issue, then reviewers must
regularly put something in the "pop up note" field.

You can sort the Annotations various ways (author, page, date, or type) for a Summary Report.

Regardless, you still have a population of 20 Annotations.
The "Annotation" is the parent.
The sort categories are children of this parent; consequently, they do not establish the total population count.


Be well...

Be well...

johnmolina
Registered: Mar 27 2008
Posts: 76
Thanks for taking the time and giving me your input on this, it helps me greatly.

Have a pleasant day...
Teatotaler
Registered: Jun 26 2008
Posts: 3
Am new to this forum, so please direct me to the appropriate place if this is not it...
Have Acrobat 5.0 and have updated to 5.0.5. Before the update I could print a Comments Summary. After the update it creates an .fdf file. The bottom line is that I am unable to find out how to print the Comments Summary.
Any help is appreciated.

Teatotaler

Update: 06-30-08
Have since discovered that the way to create a Comments Summary is to click Tools>Comments>Summarize. The summary appears and can be saved.However, if more comments are made, and a new Comments Summary is generated to reflect the change, the comments are replicated in the summary document.

Does anyone have the solution to this, or know where the answer can be found? It doesn't appear to be in the help file.

Teatotaler.