Acrobat - edits and note cells

rhmg — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:48:12 +0000

I’m new to Adobe, Mac, and NoteBook, so this might have an easy solution already out there. I’m trying (on trial) NoteBook for a book project. The publisher and I work with commented/edited Adobe files, and I’m using NoteBook to organize my research and ideas.

I seem to want the one thing Notebook can’t do. It CAN load in the Acrobat file and allow me to edit it just as if I was in Acrobat. Notebook also CAN load the unedited PDF as the background to “note pages” so that I can use cell features to mark up my book with research comments and ideas.

However, when I load the PDF into a note page for using cells, it wont show any of the Acrobat markups (like replacing text, or Acrobat comment boxes). I’d really like to use cell features of NoteBook on the marked up PDF. I tried exporting PDF in other formats and loading into NoteBook, but they were all grainy.

This is probably a matter of getting Acrobat to spit out a new PDF showing all the edits/comments, even if they aren’t active boxes anymore.

rich commented

rich — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:00:40 +0000

Hi rhmg

I have been doing this same thing, but with different methods, perhaps not the right ones.

I “load” my PDFs by importing them – not using them as a background – and then double clicking on them to get a text box. In the text box, I can write my notes, which show up in the Multidex. Yet, I cannot edit the PDF, I cannot highlight any words, and the Multidex does not recognize the words in the PDF (yes, they are text not images).

But I am intrigued by your solution. 1. How do you get your PDF in Notebook to edit it as you say you can? and 2. Can you change an already “Imported” PDF to a “Background” PDF as you have done (I know I can add a background in the Inspector, but can I “reuse” the ones I already have imported?)

Thanks for any help and for this interesting post which has a lot of potential for research and writing.

Richard