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import .pdf comments question

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January 22, 2019
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Hi,

i have a .pdf with 339 edits, most text and i though this was a great opportunity to test drive this feature.

I have a 136 page layout. Editorial marked it up. and i have situations like these where it looks like the below.

i click accept. and it does the edit, great, no problem...but there is a ":" hidden symbol now been added infront of whatever the edits was.

why is that ":"been added?

PS: this is a great feature. i have other feedback of things i noticed. i am wondering if the individual marking the .pdf files need to learn how to add comments for things to read better. i noticed display issues when they draw things on the .pdf

thanks

jonathan

Correct answer Laubender

JonathanArias wrote
… why is that ":"been added?

Hi Jonathan,

the special character is indeed added by using PDF Comments' Accept feature.

You can search by TEXT Find/Replace for this:

<FEFF>

GREP Find/Replace cannot find it.

But be warned that special character FEFF is also used with other InDesign features as well.

XML tags, Index markers and Notes markers for example.

Regards,
Uwe

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meyrele

Participant

When will we have improvements to this feature. For God's sake, that would have to be a priority. He's amazing, but he's extremely slow with some markings.

Servet

Participating Frequently

Hi, I come from the future and yes, Adobe is still Adobe

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jwyatt@bayard

Participating Frequently

Leaving these in isn't an acceptable solution. For a document with a lot of edits, it makes using the keyboard to edit text almost unusble. Your cursor is never where you think it is. You position your cursor to eidt and the delete/backspace keys don't always work. It's maddening.

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Laubender

Community Expert

"Leaving these in isn't an acceptable solution."

Hi jwyatt,

so remove them.

But take care!

Warning: There may be other flavors of FEFF special characters in your texts that you really need.

Text Find:

<FEFF>

Replace with nothing will do it.

But:

Index markers will also be deleted

Hyperlink text anchor markers will also be deleted

Note objects

The note objects itself will not be removed, but a test is showing that one character after a note object will be deleted if the note object is not at the start or the end of a story!

Don't know if this is the end to the list of side effects…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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jwyatt@bayard

Participating Frequently

I tried, the GREP string refused to search.

I get that there are side effects. I'm not trying to be a primadona about it. This feature has been around for a couple years, it seems like soemthing that should have been handled by now. 🤷‍♂