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Leo23177000ofz6
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February 15, 2022
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How to draw line/shape without cluttering Comments panel

  • February 15, 2022
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Everything I've seen so far says to use Commenting tools to draw shapes and lines. How do I do that without cluttering up the Comments panel with all those shapes and lines?

 

Is there a way to draw shapes/lines in Acrobat without using Commenting tools? If there isn't, is there a way to prevent shapes/lines from appearing in Comments?

 

Thanks

Leo

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Correct answer Leo23177000ofz6

Nope. Different type of flattening. 

https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2017/08/flattenizer-script-for-adobe-pdfs.html


From Console I ran: 

this.flattenPages() ; 

and that did flatten the page. I then copied all fields from the old form and pasted into new. 

So much better, thanks again!

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Document Geek
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October 25, 2022

This is kind of a hack workaround:

  1. Extract the page you want to draw shapes and line son. 
  2. Draw your shapes and lines on that separate page.
  3. When you are done, flatten that page.
  4. Replace that page in the original document.

 

If the page you want to draw shapes on also has form fields, you could still use the above technique, but then instead of replacng the entire page, simply use the edit tool to cut and paste your now-flattened shapes onto the desitnation document.

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Leo23177000ofz6Author
Inspiring
October 25, 2022

Thanks DG. How to flatten? I tried Print Production > Flattener > Accept but that did not remove the 17 lines in the Comments panel. Should I change the Flattener settings? What to?

Document Geek
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October 25, 2022

Nope. Different type of flattening. 

https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2017/08/flattenizer-script-for-adobe-pdfs.html

Document Geek
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February 15, 2022

You can flatten the PDF and then they won't appear in your comments pane anymore. But that will flatten all your comments, not just the drawing markups.

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Leo23177000ofz6Author
Inspiring
February 15, 2022

Flatenning is good when form is filled, but prevents blank forms from getting filled. Any way to suppress the Comments panel or disable commenting but still keep the form fillable? Thanks DG.

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Jasmine26560362434b
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October 25, 2022

were you ever able to find a solution to this?

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