Exclusive mode for locked comments/annotations

[RKron]

Hy,
would be great to have a exclusive mode for locked comments/annotations. So what i mean is that if that mode is on, it's not possible to select locked comments/annotations. in the mean time i solve it over layers -> set a layer to an object and disable the layer afterward to not intersect with the comments.

thanks an all the best

RKron

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, RKron

I cannot make any promises, but I have passed it along to the Dev team for consideration in the future.

[A quick confirmation, at this time, the Dev team does not plan to implement such handling. The existing "exclusive mode" handling can be used to achieve the same already]

Kind regards,

[RKron]

The thing is that i wanna select unlocked object.
For Example i click "Select Comment" and go over all comments on page -> so the unlocked comments should be selected, the locked ones don't.
So i would be able to move or do what every i want with the unlocked object.

With the current solutions if i pull a selection rectangle, all the locked and unlocked objects are selected, so i'm not able to move any of them.
That is annoying if i draw annotations on top of other annotations or screenshots or what ever.

Thanks for your answers.

RKron

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi, RKron

I am nor sure what the devs would think, so I asked them.

I'll let you know what they say.

[⚜ Kenny Lemens, P.E. ᵂᴵ]

Greetings RKron,

Preaching to the Choir! I have a solution for you, but it will require you to pull up your sleeves and use a custom script:

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   var arySelectedAnnots =  this.selectedAnnots;
   for (var i = 0; i < arySelectedAnnots.length; i++) {
      var iCurrent = arySelectedAnnots[i];
      if( iCurrent.lock){
         iCurrent.destroy();
         app.execMenuItem("Undo");
      }
   }

How it works:
As there is no "select" or "unselect" function, we can only achieve this result by tricking it:

1. By deleting an annotation, it is no longer selected.
2. By undoing the 'delete', the annotation will exist, but without the 'selected' status.

Ultimately: you will be left with only those "unlocked" items as selected objects.

I've also extended this concept to delete unlocked annotations and leave the 'locked' annotations alone.


May this be of Good Help;
⚜ Kenny Lemens, P.E. ᵂᴵ

[Dimitar - PDF-XChange]