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jackhhaze
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March 1, 2018
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How do I show highlights, but not print highlight comments?

  • March 1, 2018
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Hi There,

This is a hard question for me to word, but a picture is worth a thousand words right, so please refer to the picture below.

For some reason every time a highlight was created a comment was created as well. Fair enough, but 100% of my highlights don't have a corresponding comment.  The only comments I included were in sticky notes.

What I want to do is print the PDF, showing the highlights, but not showing the highlight comments (which don't really show or add anything).  I also have 5 sticky notes that I would like it to assign numbers to and include the comments on the comment summary page (pg. 2). Overall, I have 41 highlights and the summary of them in the comments section is unnecessary.  Is this even possible?

I hope that makes sense.  If not, I am happy to clarify.

Thank you in advance!

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Document Geek
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Document GeekCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 2, 2018

First filter by type. Choose only sticky notes. Then create your comment summary and choose "Only the comments currently showing."

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jackhhazeAuthor
Participant
March 2, 2018

Thank you Document Geek,

I was thinking along the same lines as you... only thing is when I filter by sticky notes, I lose all the highlights . Then if I follow the rest of your steps it prints exactly the way I want it, except without any highlights.  Thank you for taking the time to respond though. 

try67
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try67Community Expert
Community Expert
March 1, 2018

Yes, it can be done using a script. First of all, if you want to disable adding the highlighted text as the highlights' comment, go to Edit - Preferences - Commenting and tick off the box next to "Copy selected text into Highlight...".

Now, to reset the ones you already created you can run this code from the JS-Console:

this.syncAnnotScan();
var annots = this.getAnnots();
if (annots!=null) {
    for (var i in annots) {
        var annot = annots;
        if (annot.type=="Highlight") annot.contents = "";
    }
}

To run this code copy it, then press Ctrl+J in Acrobat. Paste the code into the window that opens, select all of it using the mouse or keyboard and press Ctrl+Enter.

I think you'll be better off adding the numbers to the sticky notes by hand.

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jackhhazeAuthor
Participant
March 2, 2018

Thank you try67,

I followed your instructions, but ctrl + J on my computer doesn't do anything.  If could be locked down because it's a work computer.

try67
Community Expert
try67Community Expert
Community Expert
March 2, 2018

Are you using Acrobat or the free Reader?

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