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Login name in comments preferences??

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2011-01-25 08:11:26
StevenD
Registered: Oct 6 2006
Posts: 368
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In the Preferences under the Commenting section there is a check box called Always use Log-in Name for Author name. It is checked by default. If that check box in not checked what is supposed to be used for the Author name?
 
My first thought is that the name I enter in the Identity section of Preferences would be used.

StevenD

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.0, Windows
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2011-01-25 08:25:18
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
Accepted Answer
Un-checking this option will allow the author of the comment to change the author's name displayed. Once this is changed on a comment, the default for comments by that author on that system can be set to display the entered name and not login name. Not all systems use the user's first name last name as a login ID. So if your organization made your loginID "deoj", your comments by default would be authored by "doej". Un-checking the comment option would allow you to add a comment, then you could go to options, change the author's name to 'John Doe', and set the changed name as the default name. This means you do not need to change the author's name for each comment added.

From Acrobat's help:

"Always Use Log-in Name For Author Name Determines which name appears in the pop-up note you create. If this option is selected, the Login Name in the Identity panel of the Preferences dialog box is used. If this option isn’t selected, the default name you specify for Author in a comment properties dialog box is used. Selected by default."

George Kaiser

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2011-01-25 08:30:58
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StevenD
Registered: Oct 6 2006
Posts: 368
Make sense now. Thanks.

StevenD

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