A few comments about the comment filtering function (in increasing order of annoyance)

1. There is no checkmark status in the sort filter menu (I only mention this because the above description mentions this as being available).

2. I have no idea what filtering on status None actually does. It doesn’t filter on (display only those) comments whose status is set to None, and it doesn’t filter on comments with no status set, so what does it filter on?

3. When you select multiple reviewers or types, the filter works as an OR function instead of an AND function. For example, all comments that have a status of Accepted or Completed are displayed, rather than all comments that have a status of Accepted AND Completed. The latter would be more useful, since there is no other way to display only those comments that match two such criteria together. In more specific terms, I can display all comments with Accepted status, and separately I can also display all comments with Completed status; so, while it might be nice to be able to apply OR function filtering, there are ways to work around this limitation. There is no way to work around the lack of AND function filtering

4. There is no equivalent of a NOT function. For example, it would be very useful to filter for the set of comments that are NOT Completed. This could be used to display a list of comments that are still outstanding.

5. The statuses are extremely limited, and no way is provided to modify or add statuses to accommodate real-world workflows.

6. When filtering on reviewer and status, the filter only displays comments in which the reviewer 1) entered a reply and 2) placed the relevant status on that reply. I have to say, this is ridiculous. In what review workflow does a person formerly review his or her own work? In the workflows I’m familiar with, a person reviews the work done by someone else, and places a status on that work. Moreover, being required to enter a reply (and having to work around the Acrobat X bugs that still exist regarding this action) rather than being able to simply apply a status simply means added work and clutter.

If I’m missing something in the above or if our workflows are off in the hinterlands; by all means, provide me with the methods or reasoning therefor, but I have been completely flabbergasted with the way comment filtering works in Acrobat X.

I too am a heavy commenting tool user. Our team of over 15 designers and copywriters uses it as our primary proofing tool.  We just upgraded to X Pro and I must say I am VERY DISSAPOINTED to say the least. This is absolutley a step or two in the wrong direction!

1. The filtering of comments by status is no longer "Live" (i.e. filter status= none, should make any status set on a comment makes it dissapear) which makes colaboratively editing a 100 page document with 500 comments a daunting task! Nearly unusable! The status filters were live in Acrobat 7. If you have a solution to this problem my team would be very greatful.

2. There is no way to move coments to another position other than the side bar!

An update fixing this issue would make continuing to use acrobat X bearable.

PLEASE HELP!!!

AGREED!  The ability to tear-off the comments menu and move anywhere on the screen was highly useful. With comments locked in position the way they are in X, it is FRUSTRATING, to say the least. Usabilty significantly decreased.

PLEASE CHANGE THIS. I am an editor, do all my editing in X, and this has been a huge step backwards. With modal menus in other products, why did you go backwards with this product?

I agree. The comment pane needs to be movable.

Having a bunch of long comments squished in a sidebar is frustrating.

I like them on the bottom where long comments can be expanded and easily readable.

Where is the comment buttom that used to be in the lower left corner?!?

Can we bring this back?

I logged in from "Home" page why doesn't this keep track of my log in?

This didn't answer the question on active filtering.  What is the status of bringing this back?

I also cannot stress enough as a very long-time user of Acrobat Pro how endlessly frustrated I am with the fixed position of the Comments list on the right. Finally I'm commenting also. When our team upgraded to X, I was very disillusioned when I realized that this change had been made. I immediately clicked Help to see what I must be misunderstanding. I was even more horrified when I realized that the darned (kind word) pane could not be even be widened, which told me that producivity was going to be reduced: bottom line.  What's really scary is that Adobe has entire Acrobat product management and development teams agreeing to release changes that make it very clear that they have no idea how Acrobat is used.

Adobe making Acrobat Pro users upgrade and pay for functionality that was in older versions of the program is a legitimate complaint.

Adobe took away functionality from Acrobat Pro, now they expect users to pay to get it back. It should be an update to the current version, we shouldn't have to pay for a function we had in an older version.

No way to do that?