Creating new commenting tools in Acrobat DC Pro

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October 3, 2016
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Does anyone know if it's possible to create new commenting tools in Acrobat DC Pro? For example, I would like to have three different pop up notes, all with their own default color. My goal is to be able to track the number of different types of edits by filtering by their color. It's too time consuming to have to change the color of the comment after each one.

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Document Geek

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I have found that the easiest way to reuse colors is to right-click on the sticky note and choose Make Properties default. That will import the color, icon, and author name. For drawing markups, it will also import line weight, line style, etc.

try67

Community Expert

It might be possible to create entirely new commenting tools using a plugin, but that is quite complex.

If you just want to use the existing tools, only in different default colors, there's a simpler way. It can be done using a script, like this one I've developed: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat/Reader -- Quickly Switch Between Highlighter Colors

However, there's another issue: You can't really filter comments according to color (not in the newer versions, at least), unless you use a script, like this one: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Filter Comments By Color

Document Geek

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Actually, a few months ago, Adobe finally reintroduced the ability to sort comments by color. I wrote about that here: Sort Comments by Color, in Acrobat DC! FINALLY!

try67

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I guess someone does listen to users' complaints...

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