How to Make Notes on PDF (Acrobat) Documents

Making notes, or note annotations, in a PDF document can help the creator of a PDF draw the readers' attention to something. This can be especially useful if people are passing PDFs back and forth in an editing stage.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Adobe Acrobat Reader

1. Set up your annotation preferences. Choose File, then Preferences, then Annotations.

2. Type in your name and customize the appearance of your notes.

3. Choose the Notes tool (the page turned up at the bottom with lines across).

4. Click on the document where you want the note to appear. You can also drag to create a window with dimensions of your choosing.

5. Type your note.

6. Choose Edit, then Preferences to modify the appearance of your note in the document. Click the color box to choose a new color or select a new type of note.

Tips & Warnings

• Experiment with different options to see how your note appears.

[mwak]

on 7/27/2009 Alternatively you can also you PDF Sign&Seal which lets to add sticky notes, stamps and file attachments. If you have a tablet PC then users can add ink based stamps. User can also right click on a sticky note to add the same sticky note to all of the PDF pages.

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[nnotate]

on 4/4/2009 Instead of passing PDFs back and forth via email, you can make notes on PDF documents online now at: http://a.nnotate.comYou don't need acrobat, adobe reader or any other software - all runs in a browser - just upload a pdf, send a link to the online copy and several people can highlight text to attach comments / replies on the same version.

[fredshef]

on 4/11/2007 "Overall Things You'll Need" says Adobe Acrobat READER, but it looks like you need Adobe Acrobat full version to be able to annotate.