can you rotate a comment text box

[Hardrock197]

Is there a way in DC pro to place a comment text box and then rotate it?

Thanks,
Todd

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

Rotate the page, add the text box, and rotate the page back.

[defaultedvi5vftql1m]

BERND- your answer does not work. Please remove the CORRECT by your answer as it just wasted 30 minutes of my time and probably countless others people's time.

[Jacob22299945rhsl]

This absolutely does work

[Harvey25804670n0q8]

Yep, indeed it does ! Works like a charm !  Not sure what you're doing BERND

[Shannahguillory]

You can't select a rotation angle, right? If we have to do 90 or 180 and no custom rotation such as 30 deg, it will not work unless someone knows a way to customize the rotate degrees.

[MeenakshiNegi]

Hi Todd,

Currently, there is no option to rotate comments that you add in the PDF in Acrobat/ Reader.

However, you can use the workaround BerndAlheit mentioned above.

Let us know if you have any questions or need any help.

Regards,

Meenakshi

[Martin5CC4]

This is horrendous.

[Wesley0101]

Isn't it? This feature to rotate comments has been a long requested one and I have never seen any movement to actually implement something so BASIC and essential. I keep hoping now that everything from Adobe is subscription based we would see nice quality of life improvements but I fear this is just complacency, slapping on a few coats of fresh paint every once and a while to keep up the illusion that its not abandoned-ware....

[Thom Parker]

Most comments have a rotation gripper.  Some do not, but regardess, a text box can be rotated to any angle with a script.

[Wesley0101]

I appreciate your comment and may have to look into that script trick. I was just venting because in my trade (architect) text will often need to be vertical to align with a wall on a plan for comments/mark-ups. While some text frames/object do have those grips, many do not (again for comments). Thanks for the feedback though!

[defaultj1hm6ixjcl57]

HOW?

[Shannahguillory]

Thom, I have entered text several ways - 

Text, Insert Text Box, and text callout. I don't see a grip to rotate any of these. Is there a different way we need to do it?

[Shannahguillory]

Thom, does adobe have a script that can be downloaded? Or is this something that you wrote on your own? Since I am script/macro/html INEPT, I guess that isn't an option for me. I also have to rotate text on certain lines. I don't see how to customize it to rotate the object, "text".  A visual gripper would be the best (for me) because I can modify it to match an angle that I need.  The blue arrow would be the direction the text needs to rotate.

[Shannahguillory]

I agree. It shouldn't be any major software re-write if they would add a custom degree option or let us drag to the angle we need.

[defaultedvi5vftql1m]

His workaround does not work!

[defaultedvi5vftql1m]

FYI.... Rotating the page does not work!

The comment shapes from one document have coded memory or something. This is a majot pain in the butt and something so simple! ADOBE PLEASE FIX

[jordynp93993008]

It worked for me. Just did it. If you need help, let me know.

[PUJSATR]

Hi there..

Check my comment in this page. It might work for you!

Cheers.

[Shannahguillory]

I work off a set of dwgs - usually 12 to 20 ea. If you rotate one page, the others rotate also. I just want to be able to drag the comment into alignment angle, which in this case is roughly 60 deg.

[darseygodwin]

In the free Acrobat Reader DC (Jan 2022), I've found that copying the text contents, and rotating the page (Control Shift Plus) and creating a new comment text box while rotated works. Control Shift minus to bring the page orientation back, providing the desired outcome. You can get this down super fast, especially if your commenting tools are already up on the screen while red-lining a document. Unfortunately, you can't just copy - rotate - paste the box. It'll stay in it's original orientation in that case.

I don't have the pro version so I can't comment on that directly. You also may find different results with different types of text editing. Regardless of all of it, imo the paid version is very expensive, and to not even have an easy rotation tool for the text is exactly the reason why I refuse to support this operation. The free competition is very easy to use, so for the paid version I would expect some incredible tools at the ready. Even a little copy/paste and print-to-pdf is all you need half the time.

[CptOblivious]

Confirmed your solution works on Adobe Pro. Same as what Bernd Alheit said.

I rotated the page (ctrl shift plus), added a comment, then rotated back. The comment is now vertical.

Usually this happens on accident when copying and pasting between different drawings. Now I might be able to actually fix this.

[Shannahguillory]

in a 90 degree situation, it works fine. I need other angles.

[PUJSATR]

Yes there is. This is my way (using windows OS):

1. Export the PDF to image

2. Rotate the image using Photos application (built-in on windows OS)

3. Import the image to PDF using DC

4. Paste the comment on DC

Thank me later!

[Shannahguillory]

That is an idea, Pujsatr. However it isn't really efficient time-wise when you have to do it often.