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Make Comments Private
Can you make comments private? i.e I want to send PDF to A&B via cloud, but I dont want A to see B comments and vice versa. Is this doable?
So there is no way to 'segregate' participants? I am wanting to share a file with people who I do not want to be able to see other participants comments. So what is the point of sharing I hear you ask? I want to share with internal staff, but only want external invitees to comment/mark up without seeing the internal discussion about what they have to say, as it may…
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Allow input of special characters in comments and option to display them
Allow special characters in comments such as zero width non-joiner, non-breaking space, non-breaking hyphen, forced line-breaks (not paragraph breaks), etc. and provide an option to display them like InDesign’s “Display Hidden Characters”.
It is an indispensable feature for workflows where copy editors and typesetters use PDF comments to correct texts that will then be imported into InDesign for review.
Furthermore, comment text fields should allow invoking macOS Emoji & Symbols palette (see https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchlp1560/mac) to easier input.
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Default paste for text into a comment field should UNFORMATTED TEXT
This is the biggest single thing that reduces my productivity in Acrobat DC. So often I need to paste some text from inside the PDF into the comment field. Suppose the text is white font on a black background, what is that going to look like in the comment box? In what universe would retaining the formatting as the default make any sense at all?
1 vote -
Set font color and size as a default in text boxes
In the preferences window, please add the ability to set font color as well as font size as a default.
1 vote -
Flip, mirror or rotate of a drawn subject in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC
Please add features to able to flip, mirror or rotate a drawn subject like Polygon or Connected lines in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.
2 votes -
Info bulle
There are tooltips on all software helpers, which you can activate or not. But when it comes to making a tooltip yourself, nothing allows it ... When we have small references on a text (for example by exposing, 1, 2, ...), this it would be really useful to be able to introduce the possibility of adding a tooltip there when the mouse passes over the small number. Currently, it's impossible, or a real hassle !!
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Comments Highlight needs to be a different colour
The Grays are too close to each other. A choice would be good. I raised this years ago and got a reply saying 'good idea we will pursue this'.
Very difficult to see which comment you are on if you have 200 etc
Please sort asap
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Keep Tool Selected - we need it back please
There used to be a great feature where you could click a box to "keep tool selected" so you keep using the same tool, over and over again without clicking on the Icon again and again and again. It was especially useful when reviewing a large document where you wanted to highlight several passages or for adding text, etc.
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THIS ADOBE DOCUMENT SUCKS. I SPENT HOURS FILLING OUT BRUTAL EDITING/FILL IN OF A LONG DOCUMENT & IT SAVED ONLY THE ORIGINAL EMPTY DOCUMENT
THIS ADOBE SUCKS! KEEP IT SIMPLE WILL YA?!! I JUST SPENT HOURS TRYING TO PUT THE "LETTERS DIRECTLY IN THE BOX", INPUTTING ANSWERS , ETC.. ONLY TO HAVE IT ALL ERASED AND LOST! ALL ANSWERS DID NOT SAVE AND YOU MAKE IT VERY VERY HARD FOR 50 YR OLDS AND UP WHO NEVER HAD COMPUTERS TO SIMPLY FILL OUT A DOCUMENT! ENOUGH ALREADY! JESUS IS COMING SOON, SO NONE OF YOUR TECHNICAL WIZ KID FINDINGS MATTER!! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE ANYWAY, SO MAKE THIS EASY ON PEOPLE! ID RATHER WRITE THESE FORMS OUT IN HANDWRITING WHICH WOULD BE…
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Add option to Expand/collapse at the comment level
Acrobat (years ago) had this ability, I believe.
Currently, we can expand/collapse all comments.
We can also expand/collapse comments for an entire page.Please add an option at the comment level that would expand/collapse the replies to a specific comment.
When a page has 30 markups, and each markup has 5 replies (yes, this has happened :-)), there are now 150 comments showing in the comment list for just that single page.
Being able to collapse a comment thread would be a massive improvement in usability of the commenting feature, I believe.
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Bug Report: Selection boxes disappear when dragging multiple annotations
Summary:
Selection boxes disappear when one of the selected annotations is a line--Upon moving the multiple selection with a cursor, any annotation selected before the last line annotation was selected will not have a blue selection box. This creates a very confusing user experience because it looks like you're only moving the line annotation.Steps to reproduce issue:
- Select multiple annotations
- Include a line annotation in the multiple selection
- Click and drag the selectionExpected result:
- All selected annotations should have a blue selection box representing the moveObserved result:
- Only the last selected line…1 vote -
Crash when commenting on PDF portfolio file
- Create a PDF portfolio from any two PDF files
- Right click on one of the files on the left and choose Open File
- Go to the Comment tool
- Click Add Text Comment from the toolbar (the single line one)
- Type in a comment anywhere
- Click X to close the tab while the caret is still blinking
Expected:
Asks you to save like it does with a non-portfolio PDF file.Actual:
Freezes and then crashes. Reproducible every time, occurs on multiple Windows accounts.After typing, if you press Esc or do anything else to move focus off the comment, the comment…
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Make commenting fonts lockable
Please make commenting fonts lockable so that when you share a PDF, someone else can see your comments in a specific font. The default font (Segoe) is not great for in-depth text editing, as some characters, like curly quote marks and apostrophes, are not as easily distinguishable from their straight counterparts as they would be in serif fonts.
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Highlight styles for printing B/W, such as outlining or circling words
This would be great for making visual annotations that can be easily printed and used elsewhere, without requiring a color printer. When I make annotations in a book or text on paper, I use circling and underlining, and it would be awesome to do this in Acrobat as well!
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Make Changing of Comment Type Possible
Since InDesign CC2019 has the ability to import PDF comments for quicker apply of text corrections, it would be of enormous help, to be able to change the comment type in Acrobat.
Some proof readers e.g. use the markup comment type to change text. But InDesign doesn’t allow the markup comment type to be executed with a simple klick on »Apply«.
Or they use »delete text« comment type, althought they wanted to change text. But in InDesign »delete text« simply deletes, but doesn’t insert the comment’s text.So if I’d be able to change the type of a comment easily,…
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Combine four separate actions - copy, highlight, open pop-up note, paste copied text into note - into one keystroke action.
Combine four separate actions - copy, highlight, open pop-up note, paste copied text into note - into one keystroke action. Or alter the 'Add Note to Text' option to include the selected text within the note as opposed to it just being a highlight. This way the highlighted portion will be included in comments summary reports.
1 vote -
More Shapes
Add more shapes to the comment section so that better notes can be added to documents .
3 votes -
Sticky selections in the Create Comment Summary window
Please allow user selections in the Create Comment Summary window to be sticky so the chosen options don't have to reset them each time the window is opened.
1 vote -
Spell check as you type
I'd like to have spell check AS I TYPE while writing post-it note comments in Acrobat. Every other form field in the world checks spelling as you type...but not Acrobat. Why? This is a ridiculous product limitation!
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Flexible highlighting
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…
1 vote
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