anonymous comments possible?

[Borriss]

Is it possible to delete any user information from already existing comments? As default, the user name is included in each comment or mark-up, but for some review processes it would be desirable to delete all private information.

Many thanks!

Borriss

[Mattes57]

Yes, it is possible.
Just open the "properties" of a selected comment and remove the author information.

[John - Tracker Supp]

Thanks Mattes57 - appreciate you stepping in

[Borriss]

Thanks for the quick responses! This solution was however not what I was looking for because it gets very inconvenient with numerous comments each of which needs to be processed seperately. I tried it with standard formats where I removed my user name, however the name is still included in every new comment.

A way to save it free from user information like in some office software would be really helpful.

[dodemoii]

Menu->Edit->Preference->Identity
You cannot remove LoinName information, and if you remove Name information,
the login name is included in every new comment.
If you input Name information,example "A", the name "A" will be included
instead of the LoginName in comment.
I'm afraid that you can input a space, blanck, instead of "A", and Author name will be invisible.

[Vasyl - PDF-XChange]

Hi, guys
For remove/change user info for all comments in the opened document you may use special Java Script:

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var annots = this.getAnnots();
for (i = 0; i < annots.length; i++)
{
    var a = annots[i];
    a.author = ""; // or other string between quotes
}

For execute of any script you should display Java-Script Console by Ctrl+J combination and place text of script into top edit box and click 'Run' button.
See more: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdf ... erence.pdf.

Cheers.

[Mattes57]

Whow! That's cool.
Is the JS-API yet fully supported in PDF-XChange-Viewer?

[Vasyl - PDF-XChange]

Hi, Mattes57.

We support Adobe's JS API in most cases.
For details of specific commands you may look in our PDF-XChange Viewer ActiveX SDK Help('Reference/JavaScript Support').

Cheers.