How to ungroup multiple pencil marks Acrobat Pro DC?

[lafleming12]

I have made over 20 unique pencil marks on a document. I need to remove one but when I try to do so, all  are grouped together as one comment. It's so much work to delete all and start again to eliminate the one I don't need. I tried righ-clicking and going to properties but there is no "ungroup" option. So frustrating that Adobe groups them togehter automatically. Does anyone know how to overcome this issue?

[try67]

How are you trying to remove it?

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:11 PM, lafleming12 <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[lafleming12]

I'm using the arrow tool to select the pencil mark but instead of selecting just one of the marks it selects the entire grouping of all that are on the lower half of the page. You can test this out by making a few pencil marks near each other and then trying to select them with the arrow tool.

[try67]

I see what you mean... As long as the tool is selected all the drawings you make with it are inserted into a single comment.

To avoid it you need to switch to a different tool (or press Esc) and then re-select it, and a new comment will start.

It might be possible to "ungroup" the ones you already created, but it will require a script, I don't think there's a built-in command that does that.

I might create this script a bit later on, if I have time.

[lafleming12]

Thanks for confirming that this is an issue.  My work requires me to make dozens of pencil marks on a page so switching back and forth to the pencil tool is not a viable option...far too inefficient. A script would be great but it would be even better if Adobe can address this issue in the next update.

[try67]

I don't think this is a bug, more of a preference issue... You can make a feature request here, though: Feature Request/Bug Report Form

[lafleming12]

Thanks for the link. I sumbitted a feature request.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Now available for FREE from my website: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat/Reader -- Ungroup Pencil Comments (FREE)

[lafleming12]

Wow, that was fast. The script works perfectly and it will save me time and frustration. Many Thanks!!!

[scotthay]

Any easy way to ungroup text that was highlighted in this same way?

[David.C.Harris]

Hi, I've got a similar but slightly different question - I've done a very detailed drawing over the top of a pdf background, and the background for some reason has now gone low resolution - So how do I group my large drawing of about 1000 'pencil marks' in acrobat pro for mac so that I can copy and paste them as one object into another PDF file