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  1. PDF comments not accurate

    ID 18.0 on Mac OS 12.6
    Imported PDF comments such as replaced text, inserted text and strikethroughs are misplaced. They appear to move 1-2 characters before the place they show on Acrobat.

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  2. Importing PDF comments slow down the UI, making impossible any edit.

    1. Indesign 18.0 (Issue appeared in 17.3)
    2. Import a PDF with comments.
    3. Ability to work and move on the page with no issue.
    4. Big lag and stutter, making impossible any edit.
    5. A video of the issue, the project file and the PDF with comments

    It's not possible to upload the test file here, so here's wetransfer :
    https://we.tl/t-aDCX1oCiAl

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  3. Indesign doesn't mark 'single letter' PDF comments in the last words of the lines

    Indesign 17.2.1 x64, Win 10
    Indesign doesn't mark 'single letter Replace' comments in the last words in the line. If there is 'Replace single letter' in previous words, it works fine, if there is 'Replace whole last word', it works fine.

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  4. copy

    Allow normal use of copy and paste with system-wide shortcuts from PDF comments. Most of the time I try to copy text from a PDF comment to paste into a document, the selection disappears and no "copy" option appears. I need to be able to copy and paste text from comments as easily as any other text. This issue is seen in 17.2.1 on an M1 iMac running Monterey 12.3.1.

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  5. PDF comments on footnotes import wrong

    Whenever I receive PDF comments on footnote references, they import with the wrong position into InDesign.

    In the attached screenshot you can see a delete/strikethrough comment on the footnote reference, yet after importing into InDesign it has moved to the glyph in front of the footnote reference. This needs to be fixed as it leads to errors, and forces me to check all the comment positions manually using Acrobat as InDesign cannot be trusted.

    There are similar problems for bulleted/numbered lists (if the comment is placed on the bullet/number or at the end of a line).

    Note: I've also seen…

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  6. problems with pdf comments

    Me and my colleagues have problems with pdf comments: some comments (mostly punctuation marks like points, commas, spaces). Indesign can't find it in the document.

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  7. Indesign Book created PDF comments are not placed in right places

    Hi Team,

    We have used this plugin (PDF Comments) for last one month. We found that Indesign book pdf comments are not placed in right places. Next page comments are placed before page.

    Could you please look at this issue

    For your quick reference, I have attached the screenshot.

    Thanks & Regards,
    Karthikeyan K

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  8. Indesign Book created PDF comments are not placed in right places

    Hi Team,

    We have used this plugin (PDF Comments) for last one month. We found that Indesign book pdf comments are not placed in right places. Next page comments are placed before page.

    For your quick reference, I have attached the screenshot.

    Thanks & Regards,
    Karthikeyan K

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  10. revisions are not showing

    When my collaborators comment with a pin everything works but when they highlight a text, I see the comment but 1 time out of 2 the highlighted text is not highlighted. So I can't see where my collaborator wants me to make changes.

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  11. Error no se activa

    No se activa la opción de compartir para revisión

    y de la herramienta MANO es un problema que siempre se queda activada al seleccionarla a diferencia de Illustrator la herramienta mano al soltar la tecla se cambia a la herramienta de selección y eso es muy bueno

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  12. PDF comment panel resets when moving back and forth to the doc

    The website is too awkward to search quickly, if this has been posted/mentioned before, so apologies if this has been covered.

    I'm working on a catalogue I have PDF Comments on, and I'm sourcing content from other ID files. When flicking back and forth, the PDF Comment panel resets back to the top and opens up each page tab, after I've minimised that page, because it's so long.

    It's making it really annoying to go from the cat to a doc, come back, and have to scroll down dozens of pages' worth of comments, to get back to where I…

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  14. No visable PDF comments in PDF Comments Window

    ID 15.1.1, Win10

    31.8.2020 The problem exist also in New-File Window: only the black window, one can see in the attachment

    After importing the comments from a PDF file there is nothing in the PDF Comments Window. Although the comments are visable in main text, I cannot accept them in PDF comments windows, because I don't see them there.

    I have the same problem with the main InDesign window: when no file is opened, I see only black flat, no icons of previously opened files, as it was in previous versions...

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  15. InDesign 2020 • Script • PlaceMultiplePDF

    I've called a few times about this and this is the fastest way I've been shown to do Place MultiplePDF, resize pdf and fit proportionally:
    • Script
    • PlaceMultiplePDF
    • New document
    • Document Settings – deselect facing pages
    • Move master page to this document and apply to all pages
    • First page re-size PDF to margins
    • Fit Page Proportionally
    • CTRL ALT 4 to each page (document 898 pages)

    Can you come up with a script where you can re-size the pdf to the margins and fit the page proportionally? The CTRL ALT 4 is helpful but…

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  17. Text disappears after hitting 'Accept' in PDF comments

    ID 15.0.3

    Just started getting our client to use PDF Comments (instead of printing, writing on, then B&W scanning, then emailing back), I've imported the comments, then hit 'Accept' over the text amends he's made, the text then deletes/disappears. There's no styling or rules or anything else applied, it's just straight text.

    Screen shot had 4 price points on, but after hitting accept, it's gone. If I change the price manually and leave any original text (to see what happens) such as the $ symbol, then hit 'Accept', the manually altered text stays, but the $ disappears.

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  18. Mapping errors of PDF comments for deletion when applied to list items (CC 2020)

    PDF comments for deletion of list items get wrongly mapped to InDesign when importing to CC 2020; e.g. include the last character from previous list item if bullet point / numbering was included in selection to be deleted, or are mapped to a completely wrong part of a document.

    Haven't tested with older versions of ID.

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  19. Indesign quitting and slow while shooting PDF's

    InDesign 15.0.2 slow PDF creation, gets worse the more PDF's i shoot in a row, finally indesign quits.

    It all started when indesign was working very slowly.
    I fixed this issue by turning off GPU and Preflight.

    I have to regularly shoot Hi and Lo res PDF's, 50 at a time, 2 page brochures, 100 pages in the document, the first 3-5 pdf's shoot fine, then it starts to slow down, i spend 30 seconds on each pdf just watching the spinning progress wheel before it will even let me type in the page numbers, this gets worse and worse…

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  20. Please cancel the card payment.

    I didn't want to, but the card was paid. I thought it was a trial version.
    Card payment 24000 won minimum request

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