Is there a way to copy comments AND all replies to a separate document?

[gayleenbw1]

My team and I work a lot with comments and replies and often have to copy them on to a separate document. How we have done it in the past is copy the original comment (it does not copy any of the replies) and then manually re-enter the replies and change the properties to the name of the person that actually made the reply. I thought there has to be a better way to do this. Any help is much appreciated.

[try67]

You can export all the the comments to a data file (FDF) and then import it

in the target file. Both commands are available under the Options button in

the Comments list.

[Grundoon Groundhog]

Import it to where? I can't import it in InDesign or open it to copy the text and put it elsewhere. it used to be easy to copy comment text and place it into InDesign; now it seems difficult or impossible. Another "improvement" on Adobe's part?

[try67]

To a blank copy of the PDF, using Acrobat.

[Grundoon Groundhog]

I should have been clearer. I want to copy comments and paste them into InDesign, which used to be easy.

[try67]

Ask in the InDesign forums.

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018, 02:46 Grundoon Groundhog <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[Document Geek]

Maybe this will help: Document Geek: How to Extract Text From Locked Comments within an Acrobat Shared Review

If your comments are locked, you'll have to open the comment bubble.

[Grundoon Groundhog]

thanks. It used to be possible to import comments from one PDF to another. Has that facility been "improved" out of existence?

[Document Geek]

You'll just need to export them as FDF and then import them into your other PDF. https://creativepro.com/working-with-fdfs-forms-data-files/

[Grundoon Groundhog]

So what was done in one step now has to be done in two. I tried that and the comments no longer appear on the same PDF pages, only in the comments list. Not an improvement.

[Document Geek]

You can vote for this feature at the Acrobat User Voice page: Copy/paste of comments between documents does not paste the coments in the new document at the same ...

[Grundoon Groundhog]

Thanks, I have done so. I really have to wonder about Adobe's decisions.

[Document Geek]

I found a script that will do this. https://franciscomorales.org/2012/10/18/how-to-extract-highlighted-text-from-a-pdf-file/

I tested it on a document with 6 comments, of which 3 had replies. It broke the comments into tow groups, as shown below. The replies were grouped together, as opposed to being next to their original comment. But this is a start and I bet a scripter could work on the script to get it to do what you want. At least this way you wouldn't have to copy and paste each comment and reply individually.