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otnadobe1
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June 4, 2019
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Find changes in a markup version supplied by a third party

  • June 4, 2019
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Here's the scenario: A supplier provides PDF documents to their customers explaining how their products work, processes to interact with the supplier, terms & conditions etc. If the supplier changes a product or process they update the documentation and provide a mark-up version to their customers which shows the changes that have been made to the document (they've used track changes to do this) so that the customer only needs to look at the changes, not the entire document.

Some of these documents are very large and the changes can be quite minor so they can be easily missed when scrolling through looking for the markup notations.

Does Adobe provide a way to find the changes in the mark-up document? I am aware of the compare feature but that needs 2 documents (new & original) and I'm looking for a quick and easy way to find & move through the changes in the document provided.

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Correct answer Dave__M

It sounds as if the markup wasn't made in Acrobat, but more likely in the source document (Word, InDesign, etc.).  All PDF comments & markup made to the PDF itself will be shown in the Comments panel.  If this is the case, you'll just be manually hunting for the comments.  Can you inquire as to how (and in what program) the comments were applied?

My best,

Dave

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Legend
June 7, 2019

Also: you and the NVidia rep clearly both have the view that (a) the graphics card driver isn't a big deal, it's the RAM on the card (b) that drivers can't have bugs that (c) even if the driver has a bug then getting the latest will solve all such issues.

Graphics card drivers are a nightmare. Bugs come and go. One is fixed and another pops up. Often Photoshop users are carefully experimenting with many versions, including betas and year old drivers to find the one which is least bad. Adobe offer the chance to use the GPU so you can work faster, but it puts you at the mercy of some very flaky software.

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June 7, 2019

You could try the document compare feature in Acrobat if you're looking for minor changes. It's less useful finding small changes if there are also big changes.

try67
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try67Community Expert
Community Expert
June 4, 2019

Open the Comments panel. All the markups will appear in the Comments List within it. You can browse them one by one using the arrows there.

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otnadobe1Author
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June 5, 2019

Thanks for the suggestion but when I open the comments panel all it has is "No Comments Yet All comments on this document will appear here."

I am using Adobe Acrobat DC but have also tried the same thing in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

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otnadobe1Author
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June 5, 2019

There is no security or restrictions on the document. Everything is "Allowed".

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