Permanent Annotations

[Guest]

I am trying to find a way to make my office completely digital and need some help with how to make some things work.

I need to be able to open a PDF file and make handwritten annotations that will stay on the file and always appear. Essentially the same idea as having a chart handed to you, writing some instructions, and a quick initial. I would like to have the annotations appear on the document regardless of faxing or printing and try to make them at least kind of hard to erase.

Looking for how to do this with Adobe DC and possibly what products would be good to use (ie graphic tablet, pen stylus, etc)

Thanks a bunch,

Debbie

[lkassuba]

You can do this using the Draw Free form annotation tool in Acrobat. You could either use a stylus or touch screen, depending on what type of device you're using. These will appear as annotations or comments in your file. To make them permanent, you'll need a step in your workflow that flattens the annotation into the PDF (so they can't be changed). You can do this in the Pro. version by using the Optimizer tool.

[try67]

If you have Adobe Acrobat (not the free Reader) then it's possible to flatten the file and convert the annotations into a part of the static contents. With the free Reader you can't do that, but you can lock them so they are more difficult to remove or edit.