Merging the PDF comments form 2 pdfs

[Amybeth M. ACI G7]

I have (2) book PDF's with front matter, in Roman Numerals, and then (logical) Page numbers 1-352.

Is there any way to get the Authors comments to syronize with the numerical pagination of the pages? Instead of the comments for example roman # i-vi, 1,2,3,4 and Page #4 being labeled page 10 in the comments?

When I merge the author and the editors comments into the same pdf it makes it more confusig, any way to have the comments sync with the document pagination? 

[Meenakshi Negi]

Hi Amybeth,

Thank you for reaching out.

As you have mentioned above, you have two PDFs with two different paginations. Page 4 is labeled as page 10 in the comments.

When you merge the comments, what exactly happens? Does it get aligned on the wrong page?

It would be helpful if you can share a screenshot for a better understanding.

If you are referring that the alignment occurs as per the page number mentioned in the comments, then you may try the following workaround. You may split the document as per the pages. Once you merge the comments then combine those pages again to the main PDF.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

[Amybeth M. ACI G7]

Basically is there anyway to sycn the commenting page numbers to the pagination?

[Amybeth M. ACI G7]

Hi MeenankshNegi just following up if you have any suggestions.

[Luke Jennings3]

I don't think you can do this. The comment panel is showing you page 17 (the 17th page in your combined pdf), the page label is page 11 (from the original document). You can change the page labels under the fly out menu of the page thumbnail panel, but I believe the comments panel will always indicate the actual page number. You could create a pdf portfolio, which will retain the original page labels. (File> Create> PDF Portfolio).

[Amybeth M. ACI G7]

That wont work in this sitution since the PDF still needs to be marked up between Editor and the Author, and then go back to the deisinger for the correctiions to be made in the Application files

So a pdf portfolio will not work in this scenerio.

I dd change the page label.

Thanks for the input

[Luke Jennings3]

A Portfolio file is a container for multiple pdfs, so the editor and author could add additional comments to the pdfs, save the Portfolio, and send it on to the next person. It's only slightly more convienent than sending individual files. 

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

>>A Portfolio file is a container for multiple pdfs,

PDF Portfolios used to have fancy interfaces in the Flash days, but now I think of them like a .zip file but in PDF format! 😁

[Amybeth M. ACI G7]

I dont think the workflow is going to me modified for this.We were able to ichange the page numbering in each file to just go 1-352 before exporting coments. and then export and as a .fdf and for some reason it worked.

I would love to be able to change the comment numbers to match the logical numbers !