Highlighted Text - copy hightlight color to comments pane

[MKC]

Dear Tracker-Support,
thanks a lot for your wonderful software which I have been using nearly every day for the last two years (and of course have bought the Pro-Version).

I was wondering whether it is possible to include the name of the color that has been used to highlight text into the comments pane.
I am using different colors which have different "meanings" to me when reading PDFs for university. I then let PDF-X Change Viewer summarize my comments. Doing that, the information on the comment will include the date, page number, author and title (highlighted), but not the highlight color. It would be quite useful to have this information as well.

Do you think that this is possible in a future release?

Best regards,

MKC

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello MKC,

Not exactly what you are looking for but before summarizing the comments in the comments pane you can group all comments by colour and then they are written with their hexadecimal values e.g. #0000FF for red.

Maybe you could put that to some use.

Regards,
Stefan

[MKC]

Hi Stefan,
I think your suggestion is quite useful for someone who wants to have his comments ordered by "color", but I rather like to have them ordered by "time" (--> chronologically) AND then have the used color displayed.

Best,

MKC

[MKC]

Any new suggestions?

Best,

MKC

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hi MCK,

I am afraid I can not think of another thing you could do to achieve what you want in the current realization and there is also no direct command to do so.

I will now get in touch with the development team to find out if there are any plans to improve this aspect of our Viewer for ver3.
We will answer here if there are any news.

Regards,
Stefan

[MKC]

Thanks a lot!

[John - Tracker Supp]

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

Into the last build of the viewer, you set different subjects to different styles of comments (default subject for highlight tool is "Highlight"). Because subject is included into summarize, you can use this feature for your task.

[MKC]

Hi Ivan,
thanks for your response.
I am afraid that - at least if i got you corectly - this function won't help me.

I want to be able to have a distinction between different colors of the highlight tool, and not between, let's say, "highlight" and "typewriter". So renaming "highlight" would not help me much, right?

In the comments-summary I would need information such as "highlight yellow", "highlight red", and so forth.

Please correct me if I got your idea wrong.

Cheers!

[Vasyl - PDF-XChange]

Hi, MKC.

For your situation, you may use either of two methods.

Method A:
1. Go to "Menu/Comments/Show Comments Styles Palette"
2. Choose the "Highlight" item in left pane.
3. Create some new highlight-comment styles by using the "Clone" operation.
4. Set unique color for each new style.
5. Setup individual subjects for each new style by using the "Edit Subject..." operation.
For example for new yellow highlight comment in the "Edit Initial Subject..." dialog you may choose
the "Use Custom Subject" and enter any text below such as "My Highlight Yellow".
Each of your new comment styles will be stored and can be used for the creation of new comments in the future.

Method B:
1. Add your new highlight-comments on pages(with different colors) by using Highlight Text Tool.
2. Press key-combination Ctrl+J(the Java-Script console will be displayed).
3. Enter the script-text:

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var annots = this.getAnnots();
for (i = 0; i < annots.length; i++)
{
    var a = annots[i];
    console.println(a.type);
    if (a.type == "Highlight")
    {
	console.println(a.strokeColor);
	if (color.equal(a.strokeColor, color.red))
	        a.subject = "Highlight Red";
	else if (color.equal(a.strokeColor, color.yellow))
		a.subject = "Highlight Yellow";
    };
}

and press the "Run" button on the console's toolbar.

HTH.

[MKC]

Dear Vasyl,
thanks a lot!!

I will try that in the next days and come back to you!

Have a nice weekend!

Best,

MKC

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Thanks MCK,

We look forward to your comments after testing.

Regards,
Stefan