Issues related to this are all over the web, and the forums, but I'm not seeing this specific question addressed.
I cannot be the only person who would like comment reports (also annotation, etc. reports) to be formatted very differently, and conceivably different for different purposes.
We/I tend to work with very long documents (manuscripts). In writing a review or detailed commentary for the author(s) and editor(s), it is useful to be able to generate a comment report so that a) I don't have to worry about missing a note somewhere and b) retype my (sometimes very detailed) comment from scratch if I decide to pass it along.
At present, I have to generate the report, copy the text to the clipboard and paste it into Word. Then by hand I adjust the information in each note as needed edit it, and format it appropriately.
I would *really* like to streamline this process a little in generating the report from inside Acrobat.
- I'd really like it to be one continuous list instead of separated onto different pages. Not an issue when you paste it into Word, but on the off chance my notes are detailed enough I'd like to just send the report on
- I'd like to change the formatting within the report so that (for instance)
- the date/time can be excluded, or formatted differently (or for that matter the author, especially if there's only one)
- the page heading, author/date information, etc. were smaller and
- the comment contents were bigger (since the content of the comment is usually much more important than who made it or when)
- and really, to make life easier downstream, to include a line number or something to make it easier to find on the page exaclty what is being commented on
Really making these changes just pasting the text into Word is a serious pain, since nothing is formatted or styled so changes can be made at once.
I've worked with JavaScripts that can do some of this, but I'm not scripter enough to really understand how they work and edit them so they output what I want to output.
And it seems to me that something so basic as the *look* of a report, especially re: font sizes and so on, should be settable as preferences inside Acrobat
So that's my rant. Any thoughts?