Thursday, October 29, 2020

Acrobat/Reader -- Split Pencil Gestures

 



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This tool is a solution to a common issue I've heard people bringing up, where they use the Pencil commenting tool in Adobe Acrobat or Reader and all the lines ("gestures") they draw are bundled under a single comment, making it difficult to edit them.

Here's how it looks like when you add three separate lines to a page one after another:



The result is a single comment (as can be seen from the Comments Panel on the right in the screenshot above), with all three lines merged into a single object.

To split them up all you need to do is run the script from the Tools panel and it will process either all of the Pencil comments in the file automatically, or just those that are currently selected:



The result is three separate comments, with identical properties to the original one:




Compatibility Note: This tool is compatible and tested with all versions of Adobe Acrobat and Reader, from version 8 and higher, including DC.

 
For more information about this tool, you can contact me directly.

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