Rotate comment in Adobe Acrobat Pro

[Matthew375465581fdk]

Hi All,

I'm copying and pasting comments from one pdf file to another. When I paste comments to the destination file the comments are being rotated.

I found a couple of youtube videos showing how to use the JavaScript Debugger to select and then rotate the comment using the following command:

This.SelectedAnnots[0].rotate=90;

The probelm is when I select the comment (not text) and then execute using Ctrl+Enter i get the following error:

ReferenceError: This is not defined
1:Console:Exec
undefined

Just wondering if someone can provide some assisstance?

Thanks!

[PDF Automation Station · Accepted solution]

The T in "this" needs to be lower case.

[PDF Automation Station · Accepted solution]

The T in "this" needs to be lower case.

[PDF Automation Station · Accepted solution]

As well as the S in "selected".

[Matthew375465581fdk]

Thank you!

[try67]

If you don't want to do it one at a time you can use this code to rotate all of them in one fell swoop:

var annots = this.getAnnots();
for (var i in annots) annots[i].rotate=90;

[magical_walrus]

It is quite wild that one must use scripting language to perform a common operation like rotating a comment...  This should apply to all comment objets : lines, squares, clouds, arrows, etc. Does Adobe now we are trying to work with these tools? I guess not...