How to accept multiple edits all at once

[afdandrea]

I got a pdf file with hundreds of edit marks, that work was done using Adobe Reader.

How do I accept all those edits to be introduced at part of the text all at once, using Adobe Pro?

(This would be equivalent of Word accept/reject edits feature, by which I can introduce them one by one or all at once). Thanks.

[afdandrea]

PS: Sorry, by edits made in Reader, I meant comments. So my question is: how do I accept all comments at once using Adobe Pro?

[Barb Binder]

Acrobat doesn't have track changes (like Word does), where you accept and reject changes. The annotations are used to show you where to edit the source file (unless you import the mark-up into an application like FrameMaker, which translates the annotations to track changes).

What are you trying to do? Simply remove all of the annotations?

~Barb

[afdandrea]

Thanks Barb. I have 2,000 comments made on a manuscript as a pdf file.  (I'd like to accept all those comments in bulk, and then export it as a Word file. But apparently I can't)

Alternatively, I received the manuscript in Word file as well. But if I can't introduce those comments in bulk, it seems I may have to manually enter each of those 2,000 comments one by one in the Word file.

[Barb Binder]

Unfortunately, that is correct. For Word files, most authors hand a copy of their Word document to an editor, who enables track changes and then enters the edits. This allows you to accept and reject the changes when they return the file to you with their edits.

~Barb

[Test Screen Name]

Yes, that's exactly what is expected. Think of the PDF file as like a piece of marked up paper that you've had back from the author. It is VITAL that you do not make your edits to the PDF - this is a disaster in the making.  You now need to edit, very definitely, the Word file, and remake the PDF.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

You don't. Not one by one, not all at once. PDF files were not meant to be edited in this way, at all.

You need to go back to the original file format, apply the changes there, and then generate a new PDF from it.