Re: Adding comments to files etc

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Hi

Lots of people use the internet to download useful information. A lot of it
is in PDF. Now, with PDF, the creator of the document can indicate the
Author, Title, Date, etc etc, and (I think) Comments. Not in the body of
the text of course, but this information somehow gets associated with the
file obviously. Of course, adding these things with PDF is done with Adobe
Acrobat, not the reader.

Okay, now whatever the PDF author does, there is a need for the Windows user
to be able to add his comments or information, so that he/she can organise
and manage his/her files his/her way. Of course, the users comments or
information about the file needs to be shown in Details View, so that files
one is looking for in a folder can be quickly ascertained. One does not want
to do a search, no, one just wants to see all the files/links in Details
View and select files that way. I think that is often the best, to pick out
files from a list. Often, names of files chosen by authors mean absolutely
nothing to the user.

Well, I thought with XP I could add comments to files, and that these
comments show up in Details View. Well, you can do that with Word, and
perhaps other MS documents, but not with PDF. But all the best information
on the web is usually in PDF.

The Comments column in Details view, I suppose shows what the author put as
comments in the PDF file. Now with most PDF's I think you will find that
there are no comments. And when you look at PDF properties when in Adobe
Reader, you see under the Security tab: " Commenting: Not Allowed". I'm not
sure if that is what is stopping one adding Comments when attemping to do so
by right-clicking on a PDF file, choosing properties, and seeking to add
comments under the Summary tab. There is no Summary tab with PDF files.

One wishes that there was a least just one detail that you could set when in
Details View with PDF files created (usually) by others, that you could use
to manage your files, but I don't think there is one detail that you can
mess with.


You can add comments with AC Browser Plus BTW, but you don't see all the
other information, liker Author, Title etc.

I wish there was a third part software that added an editable column in
Details View with PDF. I don't know of one though.

"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:er8vqSdIGHA.3460@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> .pdf files Properties have a Summary tab and Comments. There is no PDF
> tab
> unless you have installed some third party software, which you apparently
> did.
>
> Internet shortcuts do not have a Summary tab or Comments, change the Name
> of
> the shortcut on the General tab of Properties if you want. Or right click
> the shortcut and Rename it.
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> In news:uZy1EUaIGHA.3936@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Richard <knot@xxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
>> I can see a comments column. But when I right-click on a PDF file I do
>> not
>> seee a Summary Tab. All I see is a General and a PDF Tab. (Actually also
>> a
>> Annotation Tab because at one time I installed some program for that). I
>> must be able to see a Summary Tab, but it's not there.
>>
>>
>> "Noozer" <dont.spam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:nkJBf.443813$ki.13142@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> I had no problem adding comments to a PDF file...
>>>
>>> HOW does it not work?
>>>
>>> "Richard" <knot@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:esctoHaIGHA.2896@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Sorry, that's Details View.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Richard" <knot@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>> news:uttOBGaIGHA.524@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> I really thought with XP I could have added comments to anything that
>>>>> appears in List View.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sadly, this facility is immensly restricted. I cannot add comments to
>>>>> PDF files, or internet shortcuts.
>>>>>
>>>>> I though things had developed further than this with file management!
>


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