Annotating deposition transcript

Hi,
Some resources that may be of help.
Adobe Acrobat 8 For Legal Professionals
[url]http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/solutions/pdfs/Acrobat8_foLegalPros.pdf[/url]

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 For Legal Professionals (may have something not discussed in the Acrobat 8 document)
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/AcroLegalWPFinal.pdf

Adobe's Acrobat for Legal Professionals blog
[url]http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/[/url]
Blog archives page:
[url]http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/archives.php[/url]

Something that might help with harvesting the annotations you make.
Edit > Preferences > Category "Commenting"
At the bottom of the Commenting pane, you can select to have encircled text and text in Highlight, Cross-Out, and Underline annotations appear in the respective annotation's pop-up.

n.b., you may want to select "Automatically open pop-ups on mouse rollover" &/or "Automatically open comment pop-ups for comments other than notes"As each type of annotation is identified in Summarize Comments & this feature has four output options it may be worth some "play time" to see if it helps. The PDF file, with comment summary, may be useful in your current endeavor.This could be helpful for the highlighted cites. Highlighted text is present in the Highlight pop-up.


Using different Sticky Note icons may be helpful as well.
Place a one on a PDF page and use the Options drop-down menu to select Properties.
Select the Appearance tab.
Icons available:
checkmark | circle | comment | cross | help | insert text | & 9 more
These may provide useful visual organization aids.


Something else that may help.
In the Navigation pane you'll see the Comments icon.
Open the Comments List -
You can -
--| use the "Show" menu to hide or show comments
(when you hide or sort comments, any replies are hidden or sorted with the original)
--| use the "Sort" menu to change the order of comments in the Comments List
--| use "Search" to find specific comments based on the author, subject, or contents.

Also, while using Comment & Markup tools, don't forget to open the Properties Bar.
View > Toolbars > Properties Bar (Windows Ctrl+E). With focus on an annotaton this Toolbar provides many useful features.If you right click on the toolbar ribbon, you can select More Tools.
Scroll to see the inventory of tools that can go on the Comment & Markup Toolbar.
There are five types. Notes, Stamps, Text Editing Markups, Attachments, and Drawing Markups (loosely, from top to bottom of the inventory).
The callout tool falls in the text editing markup type.
In the Comments List, you can use Show to show just one of these types, combinations, or all types.
Close the Comments List and only the "Show" selection is seen.

Acrobat provides a pleasingly generous array of choices and variation of these choices when it comes to annotations.
Time spent in "what if" yields handsome rewards .Be well...

I'm using Adobe Reader X. After annotating 2 chapters of my novel for the publisher's typesetter, I saved the PDF. The next day I tried to open the same PDF and received the msg. "unable to locate" this PDF. I've searched my hard drive and can't find the document. Before I redo my work, I need to find out what happened so that I don't duplicate the problem again. Any ideas about what I did wrong? (I still have the unannotated PDF from my publisher.)

If you have the time, I would appreciate your help.

Anthony -first time, naive user

If you receive this as an email attachment, did you save the attachment to your local hard disk before adding your comments and saving it?

You could use your computer's search feature to look for the PDF if you know the name of the PDF.

if the attachment is "opened" as opposed to "saved" it IS saved but to a 'temp' folder. do a search for all pdf (*.pdf) modified in last x days.