A shortcut – ideally a keyboard shortcut – for 'Add Note to Text' would be very helpful for the editors and proofreaders among us. To select the text, right-click and find 'Add Note to Text' is cumbersome when you're using that particular feature more than any other (the Sticky Note is much maligned by designers and reviewers alike for not being specific enough to the text to which it relates).

It would also make lots more sense in the context of the comment-as-you-type functionality for inserting or deleting text, etc. Surely it would be logical to create an equivalent keyboard-centred shortcut for 'Add Note to Text' to save constant switching between keyboard and mouse clicking for markup?

A perfect solution would be Ctrl + Alt + M, which mirrors MS Word's shortcut (and effectively gives you the same function). And given it's likely to be used a lot by editors who are also using that shortcut in Word, it would feel natural to many. In terms of Adobe products, it would only cut across the shortcut in Illustrator for inserting a thin space, which doesn't seem a massive issue.

If not a keyboard shortcut, then at the very least a different Quick Tool button on the Quick Tool Bar (or even the nice new Quick Tool palette that hovers above text when you select it).

1) When multiple overlapping or adjacent regions are highlighted the result should just be a single highlight over the union. This is how highlighting works in e.g. Kindle and Apple Books. A common workflow is to highlight an area, and then realize you made a mistake and wanted to highlight adjacent words. Right now this gives two overlapping highlighted regions with a darker shade on the overlap -- which is distracting, and it's highly unlikely that the user cared to generate two overlapping regions (and pretty unlikely the the user cared to create two adjacent but distinct regions).

2) I'd like to be able to easily select text which is a subset of a highlighted area. This actually impossible right now because the highlighted region is treated as a single selectable object, so if I click into it I can't select a portion of the text. Also if I wanted to copy out a span that is partially highlighted, I have to remember to start the selection outside the highlighted region, because clicking on the highlighted region doesn't put my into a text-selection state.

Overall you should simplify your highlighting UI -- just treat it as a flat annotation. Yes I need to be able to delete highlights, but I don't want them to become top-level entities that prevent normal text interaction and do not merge with each other (in the natural way that actual highlights in a printed book simply aggregate).

Hello,
Concerning the floating black tool bar that shows up when text is selected, it currently has only 5 functions (Highlight, Underline, Strike through, Copy & Edit text-images).
My requests:
1. Kindly make it customizable, so that users can add whatever buttons they like.
2. Especially, make it such that users can add anything from 3-5 highlighters of different colors, so that I will not have to go through the tedious task of changing the color of the highlighter each time I want it changed.
3. Kindly allow the "Add note to text" icon there either by default or as part of the customizable item.

I just figured out that a user can disable/enable it by checking or unchecking the feature from Edit>Preferences>General>Show quick actions of text selection. That is very nice to know!

I work in several files which all get marked up in a standard format (red boxes with an red x stamp to note issues that need further review or actions to resolve). All the mark ups from all the documents need to be closed before my process is complete. It would be ideal if i could run a query across multiple documents (like a whole batch of folders) on all the comments made with the same criteria options currently available in a single .pdf comment filter and it be packaged in a comment summary file that has links to jump you to the document page upon which the comment mark was made.

Example:

I have a file with 2 folders. All the pdf documents in those 2 folders (lets say there are 10 in one and 15 in the other for a total of 25 .pdf documents) I have reviewed all of them and marked up all the issues using a Red Rectangle and made notes using the double-click feature of each box. I can now run a Comment Summary Filter and subsequent Comment Summary Report.

Next level option would be to run this same comment filter across all 25 documents and it spit out a Comment Summary Report that captures all the Red Rectangle comments i made in ALL of them, with a link that would jump from me from the Report to the page upon which the comment was made in a particular document (ie page 8 of doc 2 in file 1 where i drew a Red Rectangle to mark an issue).

Next Next Level would be a way to export this list to Microsoft Excel or Planner or Access for communication, tracking, resolution, and/or reporting reasons.

I ask my clients to provide edits via PDF comments. Even as a person with normal vision, it is hard to tell which comment bubble is presently active (e.g. via clicking on a comment in the side panel). On images or busy pages it can become like an advent calendar search. The contrast of the bubble background and its dotted border are inadequate (even with opacity set to 100). Contrast between inactive and active (selected) comment bubble needs to be vastly improved, perhaps by size and not just colour.

I would use the PDF comments import in InDesign instead but every time I click on a comment it zooms out my page such that I can't comfortably read my text. (I've submitted feedback on this item.)

Opening multiple Acrobat windows on separate displays causes problems with the resolution calculation in the comments panel, if the screen scaling is different for the two screens.

I'm using the latest release version of Windows 10 Professional, and one panel is 3840 x 2160 at 150% scaling, and the other is 1920 x 1080 at 100% scaling. Acrobat is Acrobat Pro DC 2020.006.20042.

Ordinarily Acrobat rescales correctly as you move windows between screens, but the comments panel seems to have an application-wide display scaling (unlike the rest of the UI) and whichever screen you use most recently ALSO changes the scaling in the window on the other screen, if you have multiple windows open. E.g. if I switch to the lower-res monitor, all the comments in the panel on my other screen are suddenly tiny. The attached picture shows the tiny comment panel text.

This happens in reverse too - use the panel on the high-res screen and I suddenly have giant text on the low-res comments panel.