Printing Comments Adobe8

Hi mislew06,

It is difficult to answer if comments can be printed with "Adobe 8." Since you are here, I assume you actually mean one of the Acrobat 8 family of products, but that could be Acrobat 8 Professional, Standard, 3D, or the free Adobe Reader.

If you mean Acrobat 8 Pro or Stnd, in the dialog under File -> Print you will see a drop down labeled "Comments and Forms." Set it to "Document and Markups." There is also a button at the bottom of that dialog "Summarise Comments" with various settings for how the comments can be arranged.If you are using the free Adobe Reader 8 product, under Preferences in the Commenting panel you can select "Print Notes and Pop-ups."

Hope that helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
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This is an issue in my company. Adobe 8 Pro can print comments, but Adobe Reader 8 can not print comments unless they are inline.

The answer above about Reader 8 does not make sense because there is no "Preferences" in the Commenting Panel. Under Preferences, there is no Commenting option (Reviewing is there but does not list the option mentioned), and the print dialog box offers the option, but it does not work.

As review initiators, we can print our reviewer's comments, but they are unable to print their own comments.

Hi lconkin,

I think my use of "Commenting Panel" was a cause of confusion- SORRY! The setting is under Edit ->Preferences, then if you choose Commenting you can select Print Notes and Pop-ups.I am on the road and don't have Reader 8 on my machine, but take a look at this Adobe Reader 8 Help file link-

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Reader/8.0/help.php?content=WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7bdf.php

I am pretty sure I checked the Preferences for that option in my Adobe Reader 8 before I responded. Can you take a look again and confirm by following the instructions in the Help file that your Adobe Reader 8 does not have this Preference option? And of course whether selecting it fixes your comment printing issue?

Again, sorry for my incorrect use of the "commenting panel" term in the first reply.

Hope that helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com

In reality, printing ALL comments is not an option in Adobe Reader 8. What a shame. But we found a registry fix for this problem...as we use the comment feature alot. Do This:
Add this to your registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\Annots\cPrefs]
"bprintCommentPopups"=dword:00000001
If you are scared copy the above into notepad and save as "bprintCommentPopups.reg" with the quotes. Now double click the reg file, this allows reader to print all comments/comments boxes/sticky notes.
Comments-->Comment View--> Open all Popups-->now watch how your doc print w/comments. Good night, and good luck.
I wish Adobe would fix this problem in their next patch. Popups don't print without this registry patch.

Under Edit>Preferences, I can't find anything about commenting - there's no panel or anything to choose. On the left there is a list of topics, but commenting isnt there. I have the free reader. Does this option even exist for the free product?

Printing Sticky Notes Adobe Acrobat Standard 8 settings:
Open Edit-->Preferences-->at the top left you'll see Commenting.
In the right screen you can tick ""Print notes and pop-ups"
Works fine for me.

My version of Acrobat Reader 8 does not have "commenting" in the "preferences window. How can I fix this?

Thank you MattJ! You solution inspired me to take a look into my Linux configuration file of Acrobat Reader 8 - and I found a similar boolean option. The preferences does not contain options about commenting here as well.

It may be interesting for other users as well, so I post it here. On Linux, Acrobat Reader stores its preferences under
~/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Preferences/reader_prefs

Changing
/printCommentPopups [/b false]
to
/printCommentPopups [/b true]

fixed the problem.

Thanks again,

Christian

I don't have commenting in the preferences window either.

I compare documents using PDFDocs and it then opens them in Reader 8. I just want to be able to print the markup comments so that I can easily see what was there before the changes.

Thanks

This can be achieved in Reader using a custom-made script.
If anyone's interested, contact me by email.

Has anyone come up with the fix? having same issue here...