Chapter 14. Managing Comments

If you're working in a serious review session and the comments on the pages become a little overwhelming, you need a management tool. Fortunately, Adobe Reader provides you with the Comments pane to organize your comments.

All the comments you create with the Commenting toolbar and the Drawing Markups toolbar are listed in the Comments pane dynamically as comments are created. Within the pane are tools and menu commands to help you manage and organize comments. The pane is where you work with comments you receive from other users, where you comment on documents for your own personal use, and where you participate in review sessions.

You can see comments in the Comments pane for all PDF documents that contain them. If a file is not enabled with usage rights for Adobe Reader, the Comments pane offers a limited number of tools and commands for navigating and viewing comments. When files are enabled with usage rights, the Comments pane offers many more tools for editing, sorting, and marking comments. This chapter refers to using the Comments pane only for documents enabled with usage rights.

If you don't have a file enabled with Adobe Reader usage rights, use the draftLayout_comments.pdf file from www.peachpit.com/adobereader7. Add several comments to several pages in the document as described in Chapters 11, "Using Comment Tools," and Chapter 12, "Working with Stamp Comments." Use this file for all steps in this chapter.