Exporting comments

[Guest]

I want to export comments and highlights as a data file. However, I don't want the data file to open the pdf document. Currently, when i double click the data file it opens my initial pdf documents. Due to copyrights, I don't want the other person to be able to open the whole pdf , I only want to transfer the comments and highlights. Is this possible?

[Bernd Alheit]

What want you do with the data file?

[Guest]

I want to be able to transfer to another person so they can import it to their own pdf.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

If someone only has the data file (an FDF file) it doesn't mean they also access to the PDF, but if you want to avoid having the application prompt them to select it export the data to a text file, instead.

[Guest]

Oh ok. How do i export it as a text file, and what is the difference with fdf? Will they stil be able to import the text?

[try67]

How to do it depends on your version of Acrobat, but basically you need to look for the Export Data command, and then change the output format to .txt in the Save As dialog. Send the generated text file to the other person and they will need to use the Import Data command to import it back into their PDF file.