1. Choose the Comments icon on the right pane to see the added comments.
Add comments to PDFs Part 1
Add comments while viewing a PDF document
You can now use quick actions in a floating toolbar to add comments while viewing a PDF. The following quick actions are available for commenting based on your selection in a PDF:
- Actions on text selection: When you select text, you can perform actions like Highlight text, Underline text, Strikethrough text, Redact text, Copy text, and Edit a PDF.
- Actions on image selection: When you select an image you can perform actions like Add sticky note, Highlight image, Redact image, Copy Image, and Edit a PDF.
- Actions on highlighted selection: When you select an existing highlighted comment in a PDF you see quick actions to Add Note, Change Color, or Delete the comment.
Annotations and drawing markup tools overview
Note
In Acrobat Reader, complete commenting tools are available only in PDFs with commenting enabled.
You can use annotation and drawing markup tools to add comments. Comments are notes and drawings that communicate ideas or provide feedback for PDFs. You can type a text message using the Add text comment tool. Alternatively, you can use a drawing tool to add a line, circle, or other shape and then type a message in the associated pop-up note. Text-editing tools let you add editing marks to indicate changes that you want in the source document.
Note
In Acrobat Pro, you can add tags to your comments so that readers with motion or vision limitations can read them using assistive technologies.
Show annotations and drawing markup tools
Annotations and markup tools don’t appear by default, except when you open a PDF in a managed review workflow.
Comment pane 2. The drawing markup tools are grouped under the Draw freehand tool in the floating quick tools menu on the left.
Drawing Tools menu
Select an annotation or drawing markup tool
From the quick tools menu on the left, select the desired annotation to add to the PDF.
Note
After you make an initial comment, the tool changes back to the Select tool so that you can move, resize, or edit your comment. (The Pencil and Highlight Text tools stay selected.)
Keep an annotation tool selected
You can add multiple comments without reselecting the tool.
1. In the Comment tools, select the tool you want to use (but don’t use it yet).
2. Select the Use the same tool until it's unselected icon
.
Add a comment
Note
In Acrobat Reader, complete commenting tools are available only in PDFs that have commenting enabled. PDFs in a review workflow typically include commenting rights.
The most common type of comment is the Add a comment that resembles a sticky note. The comment appears as a note icon on the page and a pop-up note for your text message. You can Add a comment anywhere on the page or in the document area.
Steps to add a comment
1. Select the Add a comment tool
from the quick tools menu, and select where you want to place the note.2. Type text in the pop-up note. You can also use the Select tool
to copy and paste text from a PDF into the note.NoteIf you close the pop-up note, your text remains.
Edit a comment
1. Select or double-click the note icon.
2. (Optional) To change the comment properties, right-click the sticky note icon or from the options menu of the comment, select Properties. Modify the Sticky Note Properties as desired and select OK.
Change font size of annotation comments
1. Open the Preferences dialog box by pressing Ctrl + K (Windows) or command + K (macOS).
2. Under Categories, select Commenting.
3. Select the Font Size drop-down menu and select the desired font size.
4. Select OK.
Note
Use the Commenting panel in the Preferences dialog box to change default pop-up behavior, and other settings for creating and viewing comments
Copy partial text in a comment
- 1. Click or double-click the note icon.
2. Select the text, and then right-click and copy text.
Delete comments
1. Select Comment from the right panel. A Comments panel will open, displaying all the comments in the document.
2. From the comments list, right-click the comment you want to delete and select Delete.
3. Alternatively, use the Select text tool from the Quick action toolbar to select the comment you want to delete, right-click it, and then select Delete.
4. Repeat Step 1 and Step 2 to delete all comments from the PDF.
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