I have just updated to Acrobat Pro CC 2009.008.20071 and now when I bring up a list of comments on a PDF design file there is no longer a check box to tick off changes as I go. I used to filter by unchecked comments to keep track of what fixes had been actioned. The check box is no longer there.
There are more approval options (completed/apprvoed/add check box etc) in the hamburger dropdown but that is surely not the process for checking off each edit?!
I have identified a temporary (but less good) workaround - (shift + k) which ticks the corner of the box but it doesn't then take you to the next comment as occurred previously, meaning that you need to click on the next one. This actually slows down workflow significantly in a graphic design setting where changes are actioned at speed and timed/. I have read in other forums that some designers used to press the space bar to tick and move to the next change to be even faster. @
As a solution to the check box issue in question, I have verified and suggest this process with Acrobat 2019.008.20074 on Windows 10 Pro. While the steps are slightly different than before it is just as fast as previous versions for processing multiple changes.
Follow these steps;
1) Open document.
2) Open comment panel.
3) Process first item.
4) When the first item is completed,
>right click on the comment,
>choose Add Checkmark
5) Left click Filter Comments Icon at the top of the comments panel,
select Unchecked under the CHECKED option,
then click Apply on the lower right of the dialogue.
6) Proceed to process items in the list.
As each item is completed simply >right click
>choose Add Checkmark and the item will hide automatically.
7) Checked and/or Unchecked comments can now be filtered together or seperately.
I'm trying to roll with it and have figured out that I can make a box appear and filter.
Another issue is that I can't figure out how to clear the checks I made. I have an issue and need to start over and re-check the boxes. Where is "un-check all"?
This has killed my workflow. Not only is the checkbox harder to use, the filter doesn't hide items as I go. I changed from the checkbox to completed because since they are both just as difficult to use now and there does not appear to be a filter for checked items any longer. Worse, I have to constantly toggle the filter on and off to hide the completed comments. It used to continually update as items were checked off. I am trudging through a document with 440 comments that would have been done yesterday if not for this horrible "modernization."
As a solution to the check box issue in question, I have verified and suggest this process with Acrobat 2019.008.20074 on Windows 10 Pro. While the steps are slightly different than before it is just as fast as previous versions for processing multiple changes.
Follow these steps;
1) Open document.
2) Open comment panel.
3) Process first item.
4) When the first item is completed,
>right click on the comment,
>choose Add Checkmark
5) Left click Filter Comments Icon at the top of the comments panel,
select Unchecked under the CHECKED option,
then click Apply on the lower right of the dialogue.
6) Proceed to process items in the list.
As each item is completed simply >right click
>choose Add Checkmark and the item will hide automatically.
7) Checked and/or Unchecked comments can now be filtered together or seperately.
This is not the fact that the checkbox has completely disappeared, it is the fact that it is not visible right away, that you have to go to a menu and click on a button to force it to appear. All these steps for each comment is taking a lot more manipulation than it used to, and is creating a grudge from many users. Some of them used this feature a lot (for PDFs with like 300+ comments to go through) and it was very efficient as it was before. Just imagine how much time it is taking now vs before when the checkbox was always accessible because IT WAS ALWAYS VISIBLE.
In a world where we must do things faster than yesterday, this is really making things running backward, and the industry may struggle to meet deadlines sometimes just because of that. Adobe didn't do its homework here. But it's SO easy to step back (or forward, depends on point of view!), just by PUTTING IT BACK the way to was, please.
With Acrobat more than any other Adobe title, it seems to me, as someone who uses Acrobat with proofreaders to review documents, that Adobe simply is not aware of how its users work. Why can't we edit keyboard shortcuts for Acrobat? Why does the mechanism of invoking various commenting tools constantly change? Why is the mouse required for so many actions in Acrobat? Just one example: is there a way to "post" a comment using a key? I haven't found it. I'm not even sure clicking "post" or clicking in the document is necessary to save the comment, but it seems risky to not commit the comment.
The work a lot of people have to do with Acrobat can be exceedingly tiresome, repetitive, and exacting. Any way this can be made easier would be a benefit to users; any way that makes it harder, or requires more mouse movements, hurts users.
A wrong decision perhaps, but this was definitely not a mistake. This was planned and engineered across multiple programs. Notice how the checkbox is also missing from Acrobat DC for web. The UI is consistent. From the lack of a checkbox to the “Post” button, it is very consistent.
I'm sure it's consistent! But maybe it's consistently wrong.
I'm also sure it's getting in the way of usability. Having that checkbox command under a menu slows down the process of making changes and also makes the checkbox less discoverable. This change makes less than no sense.
THE MOST RIDICULOUS update ever. Completely ruined my workflow which is often amends to existing artworks. I cannot believe they've done this. Making changes for the sake of it.
I signed in just to comment about this. Bring back the checkbox, we need this for clarity and productivity. I wish they would let us uninstall the latest update and just go with the previous one.
This checkbox issue may seem like a little thing, but its huge. Not having the checkbox out in the open is causing major problems for me and my clients. Yesterday I actually missed a couple of client changes, because without unchecked checkboxes actually visible, it's a lot easier to miss some comments. My client called me and said, "You never miss changes. What's going on?" I can't repeat the answer here because the curse words will prevent me from doing so.
When I first saw the checkbox was missing in the beta version, I actually lost sleep that night over it. For reasons such as this, I actually have five different versions of Acrobat installed, as well as Bluebeam Revu. They all have their benefits and I choose which one to use depending upon the task at hand. I don't use DC for reviewing commented documents.
If the filter function would live update, I could deal with this functionality break. As it is, if I check a comment as "completed" I want it to go away. I was able to do that with a live update by "showing unchecked" in the previous version. The filter function doesn't live update as I work.
As a solution to the check box issue in question, I have verified and suggest this process with Acrobat 2019.008.20074 on Windows 10 Pro. While the steps are slightly different than before it is just as fast as previous versions for processing multiple changes.
Follow these steps;
1) Open document.
2) Open comment panel.
3) Process first item.
4) When the first item is completed,
>right click on the comment,
>choose Add Checkmark
5) Left click Filter Comments Icon at the top of the comments panel,
select Unchecked under the CHECKED option,
then click Apply on the lower right of the dialogue.
6) Proceed to process items in the list.
As each item is completed simply >right click
>choose Add Checkmark and the item will hide automatically.
7) Checked and/or Unchecked comments can now be filtered together or seperately.
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