Add comments to PDFs Part 2

Add a text comment

Use the Add text comment tool to type text anywhere on the PDF page.

1. From the Quick action toolbar menu, select Add a comment > Add text Comment.
2. Select the location on the page where you want to add the comment.
3. (Optional) To change the text formatting, double-click the added text comment, select the text, and then select the font, text alignment, and other text formatting you want.

Add reactions to comments on shared files

You can now enhance your reviews on shared PDFs in Acrobat by adding reaction emojis to comments, making the reviews more interactive. To add reactions:

1. Open a shared PDF and select the Comments panel.
2. Select the emoticon icon next to the comment you want to react to. A dialog box appears.
3. Select an emoticon from the dialog box or use the search bar to find and select your desired reaction.

Change author name for comments

When you add a comment in a PDF file, by default your login name is used as author name for the comment. To change the author name, see change author name for comments.

Add an arrow, or shape

Note

In Acrobat Reader , drawing tools are available only in PDFs that have commenting enabled. PDFs in a review workflow typically include commenting rights.

When selecting a drawing tool, consider the effect you want.

1. From the Quick action toolbar, select the Draw freehand tool and then select the desired drawing markup tool:
- The Line tool , the Arrow tool , the Rectangle tool , and the Circle tool lets you create simple shapes.
- The Cloud tool and Polygon tool create closed shapes with multiple segments. The Connected lines tool creates open shapes with multiple segments.
- The Draw tool creates free-form drawings, and the Erase a drawing tool removes the drawing markups.
Note
To specify the line width, color, and other properties before you draw, select the desired tool, and press Ctrl+E to open the properties toolbar. Set the desired options in the Properties toolbar.
2. Draw in the PDF:
- To create a cloud or polygon shape, click to create the start point, move the pointer, and click to create each segment. To finish drawing the shape, click the start point, or right-click and choose Complete from the menu. Double-click to end a polygon line.
- To draw a line, arrow, or rectangle, either drag across the area where you want the markup to appear, or click twice: once to create the start point and once to create the end point.
- To draw a square or circle, or to draw a line that’s horizontal, vertical, or at a 45° angle, press Shift while you draw.
- To draw free-form lines using the Draw tool, drag where you want to begin drawing. You can release the mouse button, move the pointer to a new location, and continue drawing. To erase parts of the drawing, select the Erase a drawing tool and drag across the areas of the drawing that you want to remove.
3. To edit or resize the markup, select it and drag one of the handles to make your adjustments.
4. To add a note to the markup, select the markup and then select Add note in the quick action pop-up menu.
Add note to markup
5. (Optional) Click the close button in the pop-up note. A note icon appears to the right of the markup to indicate the presence of text in the pop-up note.
Note
To delete a drawing markup, select it and press Delete.

Also, you can edit PDFs with comments online. Our online PDF editor lets you easily add text, sticky notes, highlights, drawings, and more to PDFs.

Add a line

1. From the Quick action toolbar, select the Draw freehand tool.
2. Select the Line tool .
3. Drag across the area where you want the line to appear.

Group and ungroup markups

You can group two or more markups so that your comments function as a single comment. You might group markups temporarily to move them to a new location or to modify their properties rather than editing each one individually. Grouping also helps to distinguish your markups from other reviewers’ markups in a document review.

Note

You cannot group text edit markups.

Group markups

1. Using the Select tool or the Hand tool, select a markup.
2. Ctrl-click/Command-click to select the markups you want to group.
3. Right-click within the selection, and choose Group.

Ungroup markups

1. Right-click the grouped selection, and choose Ungroup.

Add comments in a text box or callout

Note

In Acrobat Reader, commenting tools are available only in PDFs that have commenting enabled. PDFs in a review workflow typically include commenting rights.

You can use the Add text comment tool to create a box that contains text. You can position it anywhere on the page and adjust it to any size. A text box remains visible on the document page; it doesn’t close like a pop-up note.

Text font and size are based on the system's default settings.

Note

You can add comments to Japanese, Chinese, and Korean text with the Text Box tool, but you must have the Asian-language resource files installed. Text boxes allow for horizontal text only.

You can use the Text callout tool to create a callout text box. Callout text boxes are handy when you want to single out—but not obscure—a particular area of a document. Callout text boxes have three parts: a text box, a knee line, and an end-point line. You can resize each part by dragging a handle. The knee line can be resized in one direction only; horizontal knee lines can be resized horizontally only; vertical knee lines can be resized vertically only. The text box expands vertically as you type so that all text remains visible.

You can move the text box itself or together with the end-point line. The text box moves around a stationary anchor point—the arrow on the end-point line—created when you first click in the PDF. You can modify the color and appearance of the text box and add arrows or leaders to the end-point line.

Add a comment in text box

1. From the Quick action toolbar, select Add a comment > Add text comment.
2. Select a location in the PDF where you want to add the text.
Enter the text. The text wraps automatically when it reaches the right edge of the box.

Set or change properties for the text box

Select the Set or change properties for the selected text icon in the quick tools menu to change the text color, alignment, and font attributes for the text.

To make further changes to the text box:

Using the Select tool, select an edge of the text box and then drag a corner to resize it. Right-click the text box to open the Text Box Properties and change the border and fill options.
Double-click the text box to edit the text or change the text attributes. Drag across the text to select it, then select options from the quick tools menu.

To delete the text box, select it and then press Delete.

Note

You can also paste a block of text by selecting and copying the text in any application, selecting the Hand tool in Acrobat, and choosing Edit > Paste.