Including PDF Comments in Final Output

Jon Wood · #1 (**permalink**) 06-30-2009, 11:03 AM

I've got a PDF in which the customer has used Acrobat's commenting features to add text and lines that need to show up on the final output. This is my first encounter with comments in Acrobat and I'm having some difficulty. With just about everything I've tried so far, the comments disappear. There's an option to "Include Comments" when saving as an EPS but they still don't show up. The only way I've found so far is to save as a JPEG. I would prefer not to rasterize everything if I don't have to but I haven't found a solution yet and I'm quickly running out of time. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

mattbeals · #2 (**permalink**) 06-30-2009, 01:17 PM

Not sure which version of Acrobat you have but you should be able to use a preflight fixup to flatten comments into the PDF. I know that you can do this with pdfToolbox 4.3 from Callas.

http://www.callassoftware.com/callas...box4:datasheet

leonardr · #3 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009, 06:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon Wood

I've got a PDF in which the customer has used Acrobat's commenting features to add text and lines that need to show up on the final output. This is my first encounter with comments in Acrobat and I'm having some difficulty. With just about everything I've tried so far, the comments disappear.

You can also use the "Flatten all Annotations into page content" command in Acrobat 9's Preflight...

Leonard

Jon Wood · #4 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009, 09:12 AM

Thanks for the replies.

This was an issue that one of our other departments was wrestling with and I was asked to help. I found out later that another operator "fixed" the problem. The information I got was a little sketchy so I'm not exactly sure what the solution was. I'll be looking into that later today.

Once again, I appreciate your help.

PDFSolver · #5 (**permalink**) 07-07-2009, 10:29 AM

Hello,

You can flatten all PDF files with comments and even multi-layer PDF forms using a free utility "FlattenPDFFormPages". It is part of a total of 8 free PDF Utilities.

FlattenPDFFormPages will flatten hundreds of PDF documents present in a folder.

You find more info here:
http://www.b2bedocuments.com/B2BeDocumentsPDFUtilities/

Hope this helps you.

Pradip Shah
www.B2BeDocuments.com
215-542-8383