Superscript changes to subscript in comments

Report · Nov 11, 2024

The issue is: When I set text style in a comment to superscript, Adobe displays it as subscript in the comments column.

So 5superscript2 would save as 5subscript2. When I open the comment, it displays correctly on screen (5superscript2), but when saved it shows as 5subscript2 in the comments column.

[Unsurprisingly I cannot format superscripts/subscripts or in this post either, so had to use text to describe them!]

Is this a widespread problem with Adobe Acrobat Reader 2024.004.20243?

Will Adobe ever fix it?

Report · Nov 14, 2024

I've had this problem for years; apparently it's been reported at least as far back as 2016 (https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-sdk-discussions/anyone-finding-that-superscript-formatting-in...). Adobe has yet to fix it.

Report · Nov 14, 2024

Wow! Thanks for that Chris, what a poor show. Although it seems that the problem is not universal.

I only started seeing the problem recently - in the last month or so.

If Adobe see this, they can ask for a sample which I can provide.

Although I don't know if that would help - an Adobe employee that was provided samples posted that they were working on it and it would be fixed soon: that was June 2016!! Here's the post from Adobe:

"Apologies for Inconvenience caused.

We are able to reproduce the Issue in "Replace Text".

We are working on the Issue and provide fix soon.

Thanks and regards

Aduait Pokhriyal"

Report · Sep 03, 2025

I have the same problem with my Acrobat Reader. It is very irritating. And particularly irritating because it's been a reported error for, apparently, 9 years. Comeon Adobe! you can do better than that.