Hi, I would like to adjust the comments list in the right-hand column. I want just the sticky notes to appear, not the underlines, highlights or anything else- though, crucially, I still want my underlines and highlights to appear in my actual pdf document!! Whenever I click Filter comments/type/sticky notes (in the right-hand comments column), all of my underlines and highlights disappear off my actual pdf document!! This is absolutely preposterous!!! Why would I want my changes to disappear off the page!!! I put them there to see them!!!
I want:
1) to still see all the time my underlines and highlights on my pdf, though
2) to have only sticky notes in my comments column on the right- to shuffle and sort them by dates and tick some and shuffle through them.
I dislike having all notations (underlines, highlights, sticky notes, etc.) in the right-hand comment column as it is messy. Further to this, my adobe actually freezes and is not accessible- at times for minutes on end- whilst the underlines and highlights are being reinserted into my pdf after having been taken away. I have searched and searched for a way around this, but there doesn’t seem one, just short of clicking Sort comments/type, and then having the underlines, highlights, sticky notes grouped, and just keeping my column around the sticky notes part. But this is not a genuine solution. help!
Kind regards,
Vicky
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2011-09-29 02:58:57
My Product Information:
Acrobat 10.1, Windows
Acrobat 10.1, Windows
2011-09-29 06:53:02
#1
Sorry, but that's how the Comments panel works. You can't change it.
2011-09-29 07:18:29
#2
thanks for the response, UVSAR. i am extremely surprised that it's not possible to customise the comments list without them simultaneously disappearing from the actual pdf. i don't see who would like the current setup, i don't understand the reasoning behind it. do you know if adobe got feedback that this is the type of setup people wanted?
2011-09-29 09:24:02
#3
The principle is that with a very cluttered document (such as a CAD drawing), reviewers often need to clear out all the other stuff so they can find specific comments (such as things needing approval, comments by a particular person, etc.). This use case is much more common than someone who needs independent page/Panel visibility filters, as you describe - and the Acrobat Family is built with the majority of users in mind.
What you're describing could be done by a plugin if a commercial need was identified, but I don't know of any on the market at this time.
What you're describing could be done by a plugin if a commercial need was identified, but I don't know of any on the market at this time.
2011-09-29 12:48:22
#4
I may have a workaround to the problem which does not require a plug-in per se.
For a customer project, we retrieve the information from annotations, and bring them in a better order. We limit the type of annotation taken into account, and we also can modify the text for the annotation, The system remembers the zoom factor and the position at the time the annotation is processed by the user, and it will recreate that view when the annotation is accessed again. if needed. This works over a series of input files as well. An output module creates the needed files to place the comment information into a spreadsheet, and then allows opening the original file exactly at the location of the comment, including the exact view at the time when the annotation was processed.
In order to determine whether this could be helpful for your problem, further discussion is needed, but that would get beyond the scope of this forum. Therefore, if you are interested, feel free to contact me in private (should be possible via my user profile), or contact me at max at prodok dot com.
Hope this can help.
Max Wyss.
For a customer project, we retrieve the information from annotations, and bring them in a better order. We limit the type of annotation taken into account, and we also can modify the text for the annotation, The system remembers the zoom factor and the position at the time the annotation is processed by the user, and it will recreate that view when the annotation is accessed again. if needed. This works over a series of input files as well. An output module creates the needed files to place the comment information into a spreadsheet, and then allows opening the original file exactly at the location of the comment, including the exact view at the time when the annotation was processed.
In order to determine whether this could be helpful for your problem, further discussion is needed, but that would get beyond the scope of this forum. Therefore, if you are interested, feel free to contact me in private (should be possible via my user profile), or contact me at max at prodok dot com.
Hope this can help.
Max Wyss.
2011-09-29 20:50:50
#5
thanks UVSAR, that clears things up. I was puzzled as to the logic behind it all, but in mentioning CAD, you have cleared it up. I know CAD can get cluttered and a de-cluttering feature is useful. Sadly, that is not helpful to my concern. I am surprised that adobe has not also inserted more freedom of customisation into the comments list- I'm sure plenty of people would find it tremendously welcome.
Vicky
Vicky