How to draw line/shape without cluttering Comments panel

[Leo23177000ofz6]

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

[Document Geek]

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.

[Leo23177000ofz6]

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.

[Jasmine26560362434b]

were you ever able to find a solution to this?

[Leo23177000ofz6]

Not yet but Document Geek is helping me with a hack - see her note from today. - thanks

[Leo23177000ofz6]

Yes, see today's notes from Document Geek. I modified them a bit:

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. 

[Document Geek]

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.

[Leo23177000ofz6]

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 · Accepted solution]

Nope. Different type of flattening. 

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

[Leo23177000ofz6 · Accepted solution]

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!