Editing Authors in comments

[Carolynn5CF1]

Hi

I am trying to change the Author field in all existing Responses to comments for a specific author.  There are over 200 that need to be changed and editing each one at a time is very time consuming.  

I can change the Author field on the Comment by selecting all the comments and right click to change the Author under the Genreal Tab but I cannot select the responses to comments in this way.

[Bani Verma]

Hi Carolynn, 

Could you please let us know the name of the Adobe app you are using to perform this task? 

[Carolynn5CF1]

Adobe Acrobat Pro

[Bani Verma]

Thank you!

I am moving this thread to the correct community 'Acrobat' experts here will be able to help you better.

[Karl Heinz Kremer · Accepted solution]

You can do this with a script. The following script will change _ALL_ authors to a new author:

 this.syncAnnotScan();
 var annots = this.getAnnots();
 for (var i = 0; i < annots.length; i++) {
 	annots[i].author = "Dummy";
 }

If you wan to just change the comments by a specific author, you need to first check for that string:

 this.syncAnnotScan();
 var annots = this.getAnnots();
 for (var i = 0; i < annots.length; i++) {
 	if (annots[i].author == "theUser") {
 		annots[i].author = "Dummy";
	}
 }

You can run this either from the JavaScript console, or you can create a custom command (or an action with the Action Wizard) to run this code. 

[try67]

You can use this free tool I've developed to do it in a matter of seconds:

https://www.try67.com/tool/acrobat-reader-anonymize-comments-free