Please, this feature is essential! One of the main revision issues in book publishing is adding italics or bold to texts during the proofs stage, but this can't be recognized once the comments are imported.

It’s 2022 and the issue is still not fixed. This is a constant source of frustration for me.

I can understand why Adobe may be holding off on this — if the comments retain formatting from Acrobat, some users may expect InDesign to magically apply bold or italic font variants or underlines when accepting changes. In my mind, this is not necessary. I am happy to manually apply the appropriate character style after accepting the change.

But in order to do this I need to at least see the local formatting in the comments list. Currently I have to refer to Acrobat, so I’m wasting screen real estate looking at Acrobat’s comments list at the same time. This effectively defeats the purpose of the whole Import PDF Comments function. And the frustration is compounded by the fact that InDesign can’t even display the comments in the proper order.

For a workaround please see my free Acrobat script and blog post here:
https://wantzen.com/blog/acrobat-script-formatierung-in-kommentaren-auszeichnen/

Sorry for blogging only in German. But when you download the script and open it with a text editor, you can read installation and usage instructions in German and English.

Regards, Tobias

I would like to see this as well! Didn't see your request, so I made a simulere one:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/43010946-import-formatting-from-pdf-comments

I strongly third it!

I strongly second this!