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Are Annotation comments?

2011-03-28 10:59:13

michelleny914

Registered: Sep 1 2009

Posts: 11

Answered

Hi,
I looking into having the ability for our users to put correction comments on a pdf chart file we created, but have a general question. What is considered Annotations. in Acrobat or reader I don't see an option for Annotations but I do see a menu option for Comments. I take it that that are one of the same? I'm working on coding these features and wanted to make sure I'm looking in the right area. Thanks

My Product Information:
Acrobat 9.3, Windows

2011-03-28 11:19:26

gkaiseril

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Registered: Feb 23 2006

Posts: 4307

Accepted Answer

An annotation is a note or comment. These could also include non-textual marks like underline, strike through, highlighting, etc. Probably arose from a person with a preference fancy words.

George Kaiser

2011-03-28 12:15:28

UVSAR

Registered: Oct 29 2008

Posts: 1357

In the PDF Specification, all overlaid post-creation markup uses the term "annotation", so for example the code class within Acrobat that manages them is called "PDAnnot". Annotations include comments and rich media objects (flash, video, 3D, etc.) so not every annotation results in an entry in the Comments list, but every comment is an annotation.

gkaiseril wrote:

Probably arose from a person with a preference fancy words.

2011-03-28 13:24:07