improve pdf comments!
Firstly, kudos on the improved PDF comments. They are much much faster. No comparison. Thank you. It also seems to be working (although not tested much) much better with mixed English and Hebrew.
However, if you look at the attached screenshot, ❶ the comment icon is small and b/w. It would be extremely helpful if this was large and ❷ just like in DC, the comments box wastes tons of space. It would be nice if the text was much larger. This was executed very nicely in Acrobat XI (ruined in DC which nobody can use now). Could you make it mimic XI? It would be much much easier to implement corrections.
Secondly, something I have complained about before: you give the option to either enter one correction at a time or enter all of them for the whole product. It would speed up the process many-fold if I could on one page choose more than one correction to apply. Say I have 8 corrections and I want to apply 5. I would like to be able to select 5 corrections and apply all 5 in one go.
And finally, and this is absolutely critical to truly make PDF comments useful: Right now, if I apply a correction, it’s almost impossible to see the correction. With DTP Annotations, you can apply all the corrections or just 15 on a page, and wherever corrections have been applied, I can easily see since the correction is marked in yellow. With PDF comments, all I have is a tiny very light blue “:” which is impossible to see.
I welcome the improvements in 15.1.1 – they have sped up my workflow, but the above features (that one guy managed to do years ago for DTP Annotations), would be a game-changer.
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Stephan Möbius commented
In my version of Indesign (2024, 19.5) the PDF-comments workflow is still unbearably slow. It takes several seconds, after i clicked on an item in the PDF Comments Panel, for Indesign to regain responsiveness and to jump to the page with the comments marker in the documents. It's different for text-correction comments, like insert-text-comments, oder replace-text-comments – these work fine! - but for regular arbitrary placed general comments it slows to a crawl. If i delete all "regular" PDF comments on the active spread Indesign regains speed.