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Sean328623921pl4
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October 11, 2023
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Can Redactions be made "see through" to allow another party to edit them before final "apply"?

  • October 11, 2023
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I am redacting a document that will be reviewed by another party / attorney.  My job is to apply redactions and then print out a copy of what I did.  The other party will then review the redactions and hand notate on the printed copy if my redactions were correct - anything I need to UNredact or more to redact.

 

In order to make it easy for them to review it - I wanted to make the redactiosn TRANSPARENT  - by setting the color to opaque yellow - so if I printedit - it woudl appear like it was highlighted.  Then they can hand notate the printed copy and I can go back and make any necessary changes.

 

the END RECIPIENT however, will need to get a fully redacted copy where the finalized redactions are IN BLACK / NOT VISIBLE and fully removed.

 

Is there a way to markup the document for redactions, and print it with the "highlighted" redactions - which will enable editing? and when I get the confirmation that my redactions are ok - to just "select ALL redactions" and convert ALL to black in one easy step???

 

Or will I need to go through the entire document and individually change EACH redaction color one by one?  

 

How do I do the "select all" to globally change ALL redaction colors at once??

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    Thom Parker
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    Thom ParkerCommunity Expert
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    October 11, 2023

    Do this:

    1. Manually apply one redaction to a PDF.

    2. Select the Redaction annotation. The comment popup might appear. That's ok

    3. Goto the comment toolset where the Redact annotation will appear in the Right side comment listing

    4. Right click on the redact and select properties. 

    5. Set the background to transparent and close the properties window

    6. Right on the redact annotation on the document page, not the comment listing.  

    4. Select "Make Current Properties Default"

     

    Now all new redaction annotations will have a transparent background.

     

    A script could also be written to set the background to transparent for all existing redact annots.

     

    Like this:

    this.getAnnots().forEach(a=>a.fillColor = ["T"]);

     

    Run this from the console window. 

     

     

     

    Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
    try67
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    try67Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 11, 2023

    Another option, which doesn't require using a script, is to select all the Redaction annotations in the Comments List panel (Ctrl+A), right-click one of them, select Properties and then change the Fill Color to No Color. It will apply to all of them at once.

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