Commenting preferences affect the default appearance of and how you view annotations and markups in a PDF.

To open the Preferences dialog box, do any of the following and select Comment from the options listed in the panel to the left:

  • Click the Document Properties/Preferences shortcuts located on the top of the vertical scroll bar and select Preferences from the options.

  • Choose File > Preferences.

  • Press Ctrl + K on your keyboard.

Comment

Under Comment, you can determine the default font and text alignment settings of text for pop-up notes.

  • Reset Comment Defaults. Click to restore all comment default appearance settings to factory values. Restart is required.

  • Text Box Default Font. Determine font name, font size, underline, and font color for Basic tools such as Typewriter, Text Box, and Callout. Changes to these settings apply to new comments only.

  • Text Box Default Align. Specify the text aligning position for Basic tools such as Typewriter, Text box, and Callout text boxes. Changes to these settings apply to new comments only.

Commenting

You determine the behaviors of pop-up notes and comments that appear therein. The checkboxes within the Making Comments area are explained below:

  • Always use Log-in Name for Author name. If you select this box, the Login name (File > Preference > General > Identity > Login Name) becomes the author name in the pop-up notes.

  • Create new pop-ups aligned to the edge of the document. Align new pop-up notes to the edge of the document pane. If deselected, pop-up notes appear right next to the annotation you make.


Aligning pop-up notes to the right edge of the document pane (Left).   With the option deselected, the note appears right next to the note icon (Right).

 

  • Copy encircled text into Drawing comment pop-ups. The text within the area created by Draw Tools such as Oval, Rectangle, Polygon, or Cloud, is automatically copied to the associated pop-up notes. This does not apply to tools that cannot create an area, such as pencil, line, or arrow.

  • Copy selected text into Highlight, Cross-out, and Underline comment pop-ups: the text selected by Highlight, Cross-out, or Underline tool, is automatically copied to their pop-up notes.


The text within the area created by Draw Tools is copied and pasted into the pop-up notes (Left). The text highlighted with text markup tool is copied and pasted into the pop-up note (Right).

  • Automatically open comment pop-ups: Pop-up notes appear immediately when comments are created with draw tools or text markup tools; otherwise, you need to double-click to open them.

  • Enable text indicators and tooltips: When the cursor hovers over a comment, show markup tool-tips and text indicators. If you think the indicators are interfering with your reading, uncheck it.

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