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Orpheus99
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May 18, 2014
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Adobe Reader XI 11.0.07: font size in comments has been reduced to about 5pt with this update

  • May 18, 2014
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Win7 x64/sp1 with many updates:

For the last few years, I have experienced major font problems with the comments, such as attempting to make a change in a font style causing Reader to lock up for about 3 or 4 minutes.

I allowed the update to 11.0.07 this am and the pdf I was working on, at length yesterday, now has the font size in the numerous comments I created reduced to about 5 pt. I know: that small isn't possible, but that's about what it looks like.

I believe that Adobe's quality control on Reader has been grossly lacking in the comments area. It has been suggested to me that I switch to PDF-XChange.

I will seriously consider it, because, as I open up pdfs from years past that I need to use for the material I'm working on, I see that the font size in all of those comments has been reduced drastically as well.

The only remedy that I can find is to open each comment individually and "Clear formatting."

That will amount to an enormous waste of time.

Please hire someone who is interested in quality control.

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    Orpheus99Author
    Participant
    May 18, 2014

    I stumbled upon what may or may not be a reliable "fix":

    I opened the Comments panel on the Toolbar, and saw all of my comments listed in abbreviated form.

    I closed the Comments panel and moved to my first comment and opened it and it and some others in that pdf and one other pdf that I had used to confirm the earlier "tiny comment font" problem, and now the font size is back to normal.

    I hope this proves to be of some assistance to anyone who experiences the same problem I had.

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    Adobe Employee
    Rohit Sh
    Adobe Employee
    May 19, 2014

    Changing Font Size from "Commenting" section under Edit->Preferences will work and will effect all comments in PDFs opened in Reader 11.0.7.

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    Adobe Employee
    Rohit Sh
    Adobe Employee
    May 19, 2014

    Rohit Sh,

    Thank you for your interest.

    The font size, set as default to Tahoma 10, was the first thing I looked at: That had not been changed, so it was not related to the problem.


    Changing Font Size again to 10 by toggling it once with update it's value in Registry and will effect comment font.

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