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2007-11-15 03:49:40
Ceinwyn
Registered: Nov 15 2007
Posts: 5

We are currently working with Adobe Reader 8.1.1 and we received a reviewed pdf document with sticky notes appearing everywhere on top of the text.

We are however unable to print these comments. In "preferences" under the Edit menu there isn't any "commenting" subsection and selecting "Documents and markups" in the Comments and Forms field, doesn't help neither. I tried to add the registery key patch as described in another post, but wasn't successful (it keeps saying that it isn't a valid registry script).

Does anyone know how this can be solved?

Thanks in advance.

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2007-11-15 05:47:09
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lkassuba
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Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
It is expected behavior for Comments not to print in Reader. What registery patch are you using for Reader 8.1.1?

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

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2007-11-15 05:55:09
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Ceinwyn
Registered: Nov 15 2007
Posts: 5
I found a registry patch in this post

http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/ask_an_expert/questions/view/2443/

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\Annots\cPrefs]
"bprintCommentPopups"=dword:00000001

But I can't seem to import it into the registry.
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2007-11-15 09:44:52
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Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
You'll find this option in the Print dialog box :
--> Doc only, Doc + comments, Doc + stamps, Forms only;-)

abracadabraPDF.net

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2007-11-19 07:32:33
#4
Ceinwyn
Registered: Nov 15 2007
Posts: 5
Merlin, thank you for answering but it doesn't resolve my problem however : I don't have the Doc + comments option in my print screen (see picture below).

[url=http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=adobereaderprintscreenmg3.jpg][img]http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3585/adobereaderprintscreenmg3.th.jpg[/img][/url]
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2007-11-19 10:13:49
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lkassuba
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Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Ceinwyn wrote:
I found a registry patch in this posthttp://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/ask_an_expert/questions/view/2443/

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\Annots\cPrefs]
"bprintCommentPopups"=dword:00000001

But I can't seem to import it into the registry.
Looks like this was for Reader 8.0 not 8.1 -- perhaps this is why is won't import. Have you tried modifying the version number?

Reader doesn't print comments but Std. and Pro. do. Lori Defurio has another workaround for flattening the stamps (make a backup copy first) at:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/flattening_comments/

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

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2007-12-12 16:17:47
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Merlin
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Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
Ceinwyn wrote:
I don't have the Doc + comments option in my print screen (see picture below).
Seems to be the highlited option in your screenshot : Doc + markup, in my french localised version this menu item is translated as "Document et annotations" (Everywhere else in Reader and Acrobat "annotations" means "comments).

?

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2007-12-12 16:21:30
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Merlin
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Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
lkassuba wrote:
[Lori Defurio has another workaround for flattening the stamps
One can freely download AbracadabraTOOLS to do this (among many others functions) with Acrobat 5/6/7/8 (but not with Reader) :
http://abracadabrapdf.net/articles.php?lng=en&pg=15;-)

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