Saved Highlights in PDF are Now Missing

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Saved Highlights in PDF are Now Missing

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I highlighted a chapter in a PDF using the highlighter tool. I saved the highlights on exiting the document, and have
reopened the doc more than once since then - confirming that the highlights were definitely saved with the document.

Today I opened this PDF up again and all of my highlights are gone. I looked for a 'View Highlights' switch or other
setting and so far I cannot find one.

Is there a setting that is hiding my annotations - or is this a bug? Thanks
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Re: Saved Highlights in PDF are Now Missing

Post by Patrick-Tracker Supp »

Hello jvon,

Thank you for the post and welcome to our forums. Could you please post this document so that we might see what is happening here? There are ways to show and hide comments via Document> Show Comments.

Cheers!
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Re: Saved Highlights in PDF are Now Missing

Post by jvon »

Thanks for the super quick response!

The PDF is a commercial tutorial - I hesitate to post it on a public forum.
Can I send you a Dropbox link in a private message?

In PDF Xchange Viewer Free there is no 'Document> Show Comments'. Instead
I have 'Comments > Show Comments > Show All Comments' - which I have
checked with no result.

PDF Xchange Viewer Free Version:
2.5 Build 318.1
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Re: Saved Highlights in PDF are Now Missing

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Hello jvon,

Thank you for the post. You may send the file to support@pdf-xchange.com for testing. Please provide a link back to this forum in your email so that we know what it relates to.

Please note that the Viewer (2.5) is discontinued and replaced by the Editor (6.0 Build 318.1). Please instal the Editor and see if the issue persists.

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/PDFXVE6.zip

Thank you!
If posting files to this forum, you must archive the files to a ZIP, RAR or 7z file or they will not be uploaded.
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Re: Saved Highlights in PDF are Now Missing

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I uninstalled the Viewer and installed the Editor from the installer you
provided. The issue persists.

I just sent an email to the support address with the attachment, thanks
for looking into this ..
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Re: Saved Highlights in PDF are Now Missing

Post by Patrick-Tracker Supp »

Hi jvon,

Thank you for sending me the document. I am not seeing any highlights on here. In fact, it seems there are no comments at all.

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Is it possible that you may have used Save as and saved another copy of this file to another location, and the file you sent and are looking at may be the original? Or perhaps you made a copy of the file before editing it? I am afraid there is little we can do unless you can reproduce this issue again.

If you are able to reproduce the issue, please document the steps with as much detail as possible and let us know.

Cheers!
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Cheers,

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Re: Saved Highlights in PDF are Now Missing

Post by jvon »

Yes I'm positive the copy I sent you is the copy I highlighted - I keep a very clear
directory structure for all of my tutorial docs. There is no other copy on my drive.

I'll be doing some more highlighting in this PDF so if the issue arises again I'll
post in this thread. Thanks again for the prompt response and turnaround,
Im very impressed!
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Re: Saved Highlights in PDF are Now Missing

Post by Will - Tracker Supp »

Hi jvon,

If it happens again, please do keep us posted and, if at all possible, provide a step-by-step breakdown of what you were doing before the highlights disappeared as it may be crucial to reproducing the problem.

Cheers,
If posting files to this forum, you must archive the files to a ZIP, RAR or 7z file or they will not be uploaded.
Thank you.

Best regards

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