can you rotate a comment text box

[Hardrock197]

Is there a way in DC pro to place a comment text box and then rotate it?

Thanks,
Todd

[jordynp93993008]

It worked for me. Just did it. If you need help, let me know.

[BABA ERGIN]

Hi there..

Check my comment in this page. It might work for you!

Cheers.

[Shannahguillory]

I work off a set of dwgs - usually 12 to 20 ea. If you rotate one page, the others rotate also. I just want to be able to drag the comment into alignment angle, which in this case is roughly 60 deg.

[darseygodwin]

In the free Acrobat Reader DC (Jan 2022), I've found that copying the text contents, and rotating the page (Control Shift Plus) and creating a new comment text box while rotated works. Control Shift minus to bring the page orientation back, providing the desired outcome. You can get this down super fast, especially if your commenting tools are already up on the screen while red-lining a document. Unfortunately, you can't just copy - rotate - paste the box. It'll stay in it's original orientation in that case.

I don't have the pro version so I can't comment on that directly. You also may find different results with different types of text editing. Regardless of all of it, imo the paid version is very expensive, and to not even have an easy rotation tool for the text is exactly the reason why I refuse to support this operation. The free competition is very easy to use, so for the paid version I would expect some incredible tools at the ready. Even a little copy/paste and print-to-pdf is all you need half the time.

[CptOblivious]

Confirmed your solution works on Adobe Pro. Same as what Bernd Alheit said.

I rotated the page (ctrl shift plus), added a comment, then rotated back. The comment is now vertical.

Usually this happens on accident when copying and pasting between different drawings. Now I might be able to actually fix this.

[Shannahguillory]

in a 90 degree situation, it works fine. I need other angles.

[BABA ERGIN]

Yes there is. This is my way (using windows OS):

1. Export the PDF to image

2. Rotate the image using Photos application (built-in on windows OS)

3. Import the image to PDF using DC

4. Paste the comment on DC

Thank me later!

[Shannahguillory]

That is an idea, Pujsatr. However it isn't really efficient time-wise when you have to do it often. 

[Shannahguillory]

I figured out a way to do it. If anyone has Snag It on their computer (I believe it is free), you can just do the text there and then paste into the pdf.

[magical_walrus]

Too bad! After six years of questions and answers, Adobe has not move a finger better it's software... Like Wesley0101 said : "slapping on a few coats of fresh paint every once and a while to keep up the illusion that its not abandoned-ware...."
I guess we'll have to look eslewhere for working software.