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Working with PDF reviews and page rotation in Acrobat

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
April 26, 2024
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The new comment features are horrendous to use. Does anyone at Adobe test the usability of these features?

The speed of using Acrobat is horrendously slow. How is it that the company that invented PDF format appears to be the worst at handling them? Do better. I don't care about AI features, focus on getting the core features right first.

Correct answer BaniVerma

Hi all,

Some of Acrobat's commenting tools have become free in Reader over recent updates. Here's where things stand for reviews and page rotation.

How do I review and comment on a PDF in Acrobat?

Most core commenting tools, including sticky notes, highlighting, underline, strikethrough, and freehand drawing, are available for free in Acrobat Reader, not just paid Acrobat. Stamps such as Approved, Draft, and Confidential are available in Acrobat.

Reader users can join and comment on a review someone else started. If you need to initiate one, use Acrobat Standard or Pro. If you're not sure which you have, check Help > About in Acrobat.

References

How do I permanently rotate PDF pages?

Rotating the view in Reader doesn't change the document. Permanently rotating and saving pages uses Acrobat's Organize Pages tool, available in Acrobat Standard or Pro.

Acrobat Reader lets you rotate the view of a PDF while reading it, but that's a display setting only. To save a rotation to the file itself, use Organize Pages in Acrobat, which updates the page orientation and saves the change to the PDF.

Reference

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/rotate-move-delete-renumber-pdf-pages.html

Thanks,

^BS

BaniVerma

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Hi all,

Some of Acrobat's commenting tools have become free in Reader over recent updates. Here's where things stand for reviews and page rotation.

How do I review and comment on a PDF in Acrobat?

Most core commenting tools, including sticky notes, highlighting, underline, strikethrough, and freehand drawing, are available for free in Acrobat Reader, not just paid Acrobat. Stamps such as Approved, Draft, and Confidential are available in Acrobat.

Reader users can join and comment on a review someone else started. If you need to initiate one, use Acrobat Standard or Pro. If you're not sure which you have, check Help > About in Acrobat.

References

How do I permanently rotate PDF pages?

Rotating the view in Reader doesn't change the document. Permanently rotating and saving pages uses Acrobat's Organize Pages tool, available in Acrobat Standard or Pro.

Acrobat Reader lets you rotate the view of a PDF while reading it, but that's a display setting only. To save a rotation to the file itself, use Organize Pages in Acrobat, which updates the page orientation and saves the change to the PDF.

Reference

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/rotate-move-delete-renumber-pdf-pages.html

Thanks,

^BS

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MEK_

Participant

Every single update is worse. A lot of people need to be fired.

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noah_5692

Participant

Something so simple turned into a disaster - Acrobat reader used to just work but now everything including rotating a page needs a subscription. is it just me or is that too much to ask?
Reading doesn't need AI - I just need it to (pretty much) read but can't do a single damn thing. I have installed a 3rd party reader on my mac which does way more. Sorry to say but I can't stand this anymore.

try67

Community Expert

Reader could never rotate pages, just their view, and it can still do so now, but that command has been moved to a less accessible location.

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Anonymous

This is from an article about Google (by Ed Zitron), but it fits the current Adobe development quite well:

This is what I mean when I talk about the Rot Economy — the illogical, product-destroying mindset that turns the products you love into torturous, frustrating quasi-tools that require you to fight the company’s intentions to get the service you want.

It’s because the people running the tech industry are no longer those that built it.

This is the result of taking technology out of the hands of real builders and handing it to managers at a time when “management” is synonymous with “staying as far away from actual work as possible.” And when you’re a do-nothing looking to profit as much as possible, you only care about growth.

try67

Community Expert

Because it does... Updates are now a source of problems, it seems, not solutions or improvements. The last update to Acrobat and Reader broke the functionality of all form fields, for example.

And hear hear about the AI stuff! Adobe, get the core functionality working properly before you move on to more advanced (and mostly useless, in my opinion) features.

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bodywise02

Known Participant

This may be the inevitable evolution of great products. Just stop "updating!" Stop making it more improved, Just make it more stable. So many updates today make products worse. Everyone but Adobe knows it's getting worse. Crashes and freezes more and more frequently. Here's to one, " get your act together!"

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