Acrobat Absolutely Needs to have a Paste in Place function

Report · Apr 19, 2023

I create mark-up drawings all day, every day. When I am working on a change that involves 50 different PDFs, similar but not exact, but all need the same little text box or arrow added to it - it would be REALLY GREAT if when I copy and paste it would LAND IN THE SAME PLACE IT WAS ON THE FIRST ONE! It takes a lot of time having to move and adjust every single one, every single time. I know this is a long standing gripe, but I've just had to do 150 PDFs and I'm just sick of it.

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Report · Apr 21, 2023

Pasting in place seems to work for form fields and regular PDF content, but not for annotations (or comments). What are you trying to copy&paste?

Report · May 01, 2023

Sorry for the late reply.

I know it works in forms, but I don't use forms. I use it to make mark-ups of drawings that are going through ECO. Right now, I'm working on 250+ labels that need to have address changed and new icons added, and new notations on the drawing portion. I use a lot of call out boxes, text boxes, arrows, strike through (which can't be copied at all) and sometimes there's a png that needs to go too. (Those on the "edit" tab.) SO when I want to be copying the same four little elements, for example, one is in the upper right, one is sort of in the middle. . . I copy all (can't group and copy because that blows up too) and paste it on my next drawing (all have to be open to comments). It lands in a strange and random place on the next drawing, and I have to adjust it. Drives. Me. Nuts.

Report · May 02, 2023

I've run across this as well. A pasted stamp annotation lands in unexpected places often for me. Paste-in-place would be super helpful to me.

My best,

Dave

Report · May 02, 2023

Yup, as I said, it does not work for annotations. You can request a change/new feature here: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac

This is a public forum and invites others to vote on your request, so you may want to post the link to your request here so that others looking for this feature will know where to vote. When you post the link, you will have my vote (and I assume Dave_M's as well). Adobe will look at how popular feature requests to decide if they want to implement them.