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1. Re: Is there a way to save comments into a "macro" or easily accessible file for quick/easy insertion?
try67 Jul 13, 2011 1:22 PM (in response to thefluffybunny)Comments can be exported and imported as a CSV or XML file.
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2. Re: Is there a way to save comments into a "macro" or easily accessible file for quick/easy insertion?
GKaiseril Jul 13, 2011 2:26 PM (in response to thefluffybunny)You could create a menu item or tool bar button to allow you to selected a comment from a pop-up menu.
Pop-up menus for Acrobat by Thom Parker
Adding Custom Menu Commands by Thom Parker
Automating Placement of Annotations by Thom Parker
Automating Redaction with Acrobat JavaScript by Thom Parker
Bates numbering across a PDF Portfolio by Rick Borstein
Acrobat for Legal Professionals Rick Borstein
> 1) Why doesn't Acrobat X Pro grant me an automated function/action to resize (using Edit Object) every page?
Acrobat is not an authoring tool and the original purpose of Acrobat was to allow the simple sharing of text and images between different computer users who might not have the same programs or operating systems. Remember this is a 17+ year old program and works across Mac, Windows, Unix, Android, Palm OS, and Solaris computer system. Probably the most widely distributed program in the world.
> 2) Acrobat needs better commenting tools for comments intended for printing. Most people in my industry don't have/know how to use Acrobat, so pop-up comments become either obtrusive (covering text) or confusing.
Acrobat was not designed for Attorneys. Better yet why do not attorneys learn how to use the tools they need to use to do their job or get proper technical support. This reminds me of the federal judge who felt PDF and Acrobat/Reader were too much trouble and she demanded all documents sent to her needed to be in the MS Word format. And when the attorneys complied with her order, she could not open the documents since she only had WordPerfect on her system with no conversion tools for MS Word documents.
You can use the text comment box tool or the call out tool to make comments that are not in a pop-up balloon.
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3. Re: Is there a way to save comments into a "macro" or easily accessible file for quick/easy insertion?
George_Johnson Jul 13, 2011 2:43 PM (in response to thefluffybunny)One thing to consider for commonly applied comments is to create a series of custom stamps. You can then quickly apply them by simply selecting the stamp you want an clicking where you want it to be. Stamps do include pop-ups, but you can always flatten a page, which converts the stamps (and other annotations) to regular page contents, which effectively removes any popups.
You can even create a dynamic stamp for the cases where you need to specify your own text. When such a stamp is applied, it can prompt you to enter the text and the stamp will then be applied. This involves some JavaScript programming, but it may be worth it to you to find someone to develop this for you.
Also, it would be possible to set up a script that creates the reduced size images of pages in a document on a regular sized pages. This too would involve some scripting, but it can be done.
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4. Re: Is there a way to save comments into a "macro" or easily accessible file for quick/easy insertion?
thefluffybunny Jul 13, 2011 2:46 PM (in response to GKaiseril)This looks awesome, but I'm not very familiar with programming (but could see myself spending 5 hours in front of my computer figuring it out).
The pop-up menus explanation looks very intriguing, but I don't see the finished product. In other words, having a tree array with all the different names of provisions followed by their respective standard comments would be amazing (seriously AMAZING!), but (a) would it work (b) what would it look like with callout bubbles (instead of simply saying "Berries"--> "Goose") and (c) could I do it, realistically speaking?
I'll also look into the "adding custom menus" later tonight when I have more time.
Thanks so much!
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5. Re: Is there a way to save comments into a "macro" or easily accessible file for quick/easy insertion?
GKaiseril Jul 14, 2011 7:37 AM (in response to thefluffybunny)Watch Stamps Gone Wild at PDFScripting.com to see how versatile stamps can be with sufficient scripting.



