Friday, November 28, 2008

Using summarize feature


After you’ve received reviewers’ comments in a PDF document, whether e-mail or browser-based, you can use the Summarize feature to create a summary report that lists all the different types of comments attached to a PDF document. This convenient feature lets you sort comments and specify a page layout in order to generate a printable comment synopsis. The summary is a separate PDF document that can be printed directly in Acrobat or saved and distributed to others for viewing and printing.
To generate a summary report, follow these steps:
  1. Choose Document➪Summarize Comments. The Summarize Options dialog box appears, as shown in Figure.
  2. Click one of the radio buttons in the Choose a Layout section of the Summarize Options dialog box to specify how the summary will appear onscreen or when printed. As you can see in Figure, in addition to having a lengthy description of the page layout attached to each radio button, you also get a graphic depiction of the selected page layout in the area above when you click a radio button.
  3. Choose a comment sort order for the summary by clicking the Sort Comments By drop-down list and choosing either Author, Date, Page, or Type.
  4. Select one of the Include radio buttons, either All Comments, which displays all comments whether they are hidden or not in summary, or Only the Comments Currently Showing, which keeps hidden comments hidden in the summary.
  5. Choose a Font Size radio button, either Small, Medium, or Large, to specify the size of displayed text in the summary.
  6. Click OK to close the Summarize Options dialog box and generate the summary report.
  7. Acrobat generates the summary report in a separate PDF document that it displays in the Document window using the Fit Width view. You can then save and print this summary file.

1 comments:

Adobe Content Server said...

Hi,

The steps about summarize feature are very clear for every pdf document user, it offers faster access to important documents it can organize. It is a smarter way to gather information and lets you never misplace a document again with fast and reliable searches. Thanks a lot.