Is there a way to copy comments AND all replies to a separate document?

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
May 17, 2016
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My team and I work a lot with comments and replies and often have to copy them on to a separate document. How we have done it in the past is copy the original comment (it does not copy any of the replies) and then manually re-enter the replies and change the properties to the name of the person that actually made the reply. I thought there has to be a better way to do this. Any help is much appreciated.

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Document Geek

Community Expert

Maybe this will help: Document Geek: How to Extract Text From Locked Comments within an Acrobat Shared Review

If your comments are locked, you'll have to open the comment bubble.

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Grundoon Groundhog

Inspiring

thanks. It used to be possible to import comments from one PDF to another. Has that facility been "improved" out of existence?

Document Geek

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You'll just need to export them as FDF and then import them into your other PDF. https://creativepro.com/working-with-fdfs-forms-data-files/

try67

Community Expert

You can export all the the comments to a data file (FDF) and then import it

in the target file. Both commands are available under the Options button in

the Comments list.

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Grundoon Groundhog

Inspiring

Import it to where? I can't import it in InDesign or open it to copy the text and put it elsewhere. it used to be easy to copy comment text and place it into InDesign; now it seems difficult or impossible. Another "improvement" on Adobe's part?

try67

Community Expert

To a blank copy of the PDF, using Acrobat.

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