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Giyi
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January 17, 2020
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Is it possible to copy highlighted text to comment window? Android

  • January 17, 2020
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Hi. I've set up my adobe acrobat pro so that it copies text into a comment when I highlight it. I have tried to setup the android app in the same way, but the highlight tool is not copying the text over to the comment. It is only highlighting the text and adding an empty comment on the comment section. I've tried this with several PDF's and it doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know how to fix this or if this is even possible?

 

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    Correct answer Meenakshi Negi

    Hi Giyi,

     

    It seems that you are referring to copy the text to comment window that you higlight in the PDF. It is not possible in the mobile application. You need to manually add notes in the comment window for the highlighted text.

    The mobile application has some limitation and it does not work in the similar way as the desktop application.

     

    Let us know if you have any questions.

     

    Regards,

    Meenakshi

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    slawomirw47778800
    Participant
    February 7, 2022

    It is possible; however, multiple steps are necessary.

    1. Mark the text

    2. Copy it (from the pop-up menu)

    3. Click on the symbol that ends marked text - pop-up menu should show again

    4. Highlight marked text (from the pop-up menu)

    5. Click highlighted text - comment window should open

    6. Press and hold on the comment line and click "Paste".

    That's all.

     

    I'm sure that it would be straightforward to implement into the app. As you can see, all functions are available. They only have to merge them into a one-click icon.

     

    Gordon_Shumway
    Gordon_Shumway
    Participant
    November 8, 2020

    I'm also having the same issue. I think deferring the lack of this very important feature to the so-called limitations of iPadOS is not a good business strategy. Please, pay attention to our demands.

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      rrtrtt
      Participant
      January 24, 2021

      Hi iOS user here,

      Can't agree with you more! Let's all make a request to this feature  (acrobat mobile auto copy highlight text to comment) and hopefully Adobe team would listen to us!

      Make request here: https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

        Gordon_Shumway
        Gordon_Shumway
        Participant
        January 25, 2021

        Thank you, Ray! I just submitted my request. But the fact that we have yet to see any support or proactive attention from the Adobe team makes me think that either their PR is extremely dysfucntional or they really don't care about their Apple customers. Event the fact that they have yet to adapt their software to Apple's now pretty settled "full window vs zoom" interface on MacOS makes it so obvious that they really don't care about their customers.

         

        I guess Apple should explicitly force Adobe to listen to us, and this is not fair as I believe Adobe must have more Apple customers than Windows customers.

          Meenakshi Negi
          Community Manager
          Meenakshi NegiCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
          Community Manager
          January 21, 2020

          Hi Giyi,

           

          It seems that you are referring to copy the text to comment window that you higlight in the PDF. It is not possible in the mobile application. You need to manually add notes in the comment window for the highlighted text.

          The mobile application has some limitation and it does not work in the similar way as the desktop application.

           

          Let us know if you have any questions.

           

          Regards,

          Meenakshi

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          Nathaniel Comfort
          Participant
          October 2, 2020

          I am having the same problem in the desktop app. In previous versions of Acrobat, highlighted text automatically appeared in the Comments window. I'm in a doc now that I've had for a while and had annotated in a previous version of Acrobat. All the highlighted text is there in the Comments window, but when I highlight some new text, all that appears in the Comments is "Highlighted text."

          Am I doing something wrong? Is there some setting I can change or something to bring back this feature? I rely on it heavily and the robustness of it has been one of the years I've kept paying for Acrobat all these years. PLEASE don't let it be true that Adobe has "unimproved" Acrobat and taken away this feature!

          (Also, it worked great on my iPad, unlike other [cheaper] PDF annotation apps. I haven't tried the new version. I also hope this feature hasn't been lost there!)

          Thanks in advance,

          Nathaniel

          [Running Catalina OS on a 2019 MacBook Pro with Acrobat 2020.]

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