Re: Comments and pdfs

Thanks Daiya,

I thought it was probably a feature of Acrobat. I'll go check and see what
I have to do. You're right - I want to keep other features such as
hyperlinks to sections and the like. I'll report back with what I find out.

Fiona Nelson

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

> In Word, about all you could do is make a copy of the document, remove the
> comments from it, and PDF and distribute that, then delete it or file it as
> "sent out on XY date"
>
> Alternatively, presumably somewhere in Acrobat the person who PDFs them
> could tell Acrobat not to include comments. You'd have to ask an Acrobat
> expert about that.
>
> You maybe could experiment with less expensive PDF creators which might not
> have the capability to transform comments, such as PrimoPDF, CutePDF or
> pdf1995. Search the web. But such alternatives might also not have the
> capability to use other features that you do want, check carefully. I'm not
> familiar with those, I'm just guessing the reason they are cheaper is that
> they have fewer features.
>
> On 8/28/05 9:35 PM, "fiona nelson" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a series of documents which get updated each year and then pdfed and
> > sent off to various groups. To help me keep track of where I'm up to, I put
> > in comments at update points (contact details usually) along the lines of
> > "Correct at..."
> >
> > This is fine for the Word docs, as they are internal and they are actually
> > really handy, but I have just realised that these are also translating to the
> > pdf docs. These get sent out to various regulatory boards, so I don't want
> > them showing up. Is there a way to stop them from showing up in the pdf yet
> > keep them in the word doc? They are showing up as yellow notepad icons,
> > which when you hover over them reveal the comment. They obscure text as well.
> >
> > I'm using word XP and I got someone else to change them to pdf, and I think
> > they were using adobe acrobat v 6.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated,
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Fiona Nelson
> >
>
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