How to Draw a Circle in Adobe Acrobat

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Add comments to PDF files with highlights, sticky notes, a freehand drawing tool, and mark-up tools.

Watch a quick video tutorial and go started

Add together notes and annotations to your PDF document.Click Get Started  to launch Acrobat:Get Started

With the May 2019 release of Acrobat DC, you can employ quick actions in a floating toolbar to add comments while viewing a PDF. You do not accept to open the commenting tool to access these actions. The post-obit quick actions are available for commenting based on your selection in a PDF:

If you are unable to see these options, update Acrobat DC to the latest version.

• Actions on text selection: Yous can Highlight Text, Underline Text, Strikethrough Text, Copy Text, and Edit Text & Images.

• Deportment on image selection: When you select an image yous can perform actions similar Add Viscous Note, Highlight Text, Edit Text & Images, and Re-create Prototype.

• Deportment on highlight selection: When you select an existing highlight comment in a PDF you run across quick actions to Add Note, Change Color, or Delete the comment.

Note: In Acrobat Reader, consummate commenting tools are bachelor only in PDFs that accept commenting enabled.

Y'all employ annotation and drawing markup tools to add comments. The commenting tools are made bachelor in the secondary toolbar of the Comment feature. Comments are notes and drawings that communicate ideas or provide feedback for PDFs. You tin blazon a text message using the Sticky Annotation tool. Alternatively, you can utilize a drawing tool to add a line, circumvolve, or other shape and then type a message in the associated pop-up annotation. Text-editing tools allow you add editing marks to indicate changes that you want in the source certificate. Most commenting and markup tools don't appear in the toolbar until y'all enable the Commenting characteristic.

In Acrobat Pro, you lot can add tags to your comments so that readers with motion or vision limitations can read them using assistive technologies.

Annotations and markup tools don't appear by default, except when you open a PDF in a managed review workflow.

Choose Tools > Comment to open up the Annotate toolbar. The comments that you add to the document are displayed in the right pane.



Annotate toolbar

To see the labels along with the tool icons, right-click on the Annotate toolbar and select Testify All Labels.

The drawing markup tools are grouped under the Cartoon Tools menu. Click the Drawing Tools icon on the toolbar, and so select Expand Drawing Tools to add the drawing tools to the secondary toolbar.



Drawing Tools carte du jour

• Open the Annotate toolbar and select the desired notation tool.
• To select the cartoon markup tool, open the Annotate toolbar and click the Drawing Tools icon . Select the desired tool from the Drawing Tools menu.

After you make an initial comment, the tool changes dorsum to the Select tool and so that you lot can motion, resize, or edit your comment. (The Pencil and Highlight Text tools stay selected.)

You lot tin add multiple comments without reselecting the tool.

In the Annotate toolbar, select the tool yous desire to use (merely don't use it nonetheless).

Click the Keep Tool Selected icon

Add a sticky note

In Acrobat Reader, complete commenting tools are available only in PDFs that have commenting enabled. PDFs in a review workflow typically include commenting rights.

The most common type of annotate is the pasty note. A viscous notation has a note icon that appears on the page and a popular-up annotation for your text message. You tin add together a sticky notation anywhere on the page or in the document area.

Employ the Pasty Note tool to add a text bulletin in a pop-upwards note.

Select the Gluey Notation tool in the Comment toolbar, and click where you want to place the notation.

Type text in the pop-up note. You can also use the Select tool to re-create and paste text from a PDF into the annotation.

If you close the pop-up annotation, your text remains.

Click or double-click the note icon.

• To resize the pop-up note, drag the lower-left or lower-right corner.

• To change the text formatting, click the Text Properties icon in the Comment toolbar, and select the text, and then select the property yous want in the toolbar.

Employ the Commenting panel in the Preferences dialog box to change the font size, default pop-up behavior, and other settings for creating and viewing comments

After making the desired changes, click the close (X) button in the upper-right corner of the pop-upward annotation, or click outside the pop-upwardly annotation.

Copy partial text in a sticky note annotate

Click or double-click the note icon.

Select the text, and so correct-click and copy text.

Delete a sticky note

Select the note icon, and printing Delete.

Alternatively, double-click the note icon and choose Delete from the Options menu of the pop-upward annotation.

Utilise the Add Text Comment tool to type text anywhere on the PDF page. The Add Text Comment tool is similar to the Add together Text Box tool.

Cull the Add Text Annotate tool from the Comment toolbar.

Click on the page to identify the cursor

To change the text formatting, click theText Properties icon in the Comment toolbar, and select the text, so select the belongings you want in the toolbar.

When you add a annotate in a PDF file, by default your login proper name is used as author name for the comment. To alter the writer name, run into change writer name for comments.

Add together a line, pointer, or shape

In Acrobat Reader , cartoon tools are bachelor just in PDFs that take commenting enabled. PDFs in a review workflow typically include commenting rights.

When selecting a drawing tool, consider the effect you lot want.

Choose Tools > Comment. In the Comment toolbar, click Drawing Tools and select the drawing markup tool:

To specify the line width, color, and other properties earlier you draw, select the desired tool, and press Ctrl+E to open the backdrop toolbar. Fix the desired options in the Properties toolbar.


• To create a cloud or polygon shape, click to create the start point, move the pointer, and click to create each segment. To terminate drawing the shape, click the start point, or correct-click and choose Complete from the menu. Double-click to end a polygon line.

• To describe a line, pointer, or rectangle, either elevate across the area where you desire the markup to appear, or click twice: once to create the start point and in one case to create the end point.

• To draw a square or circle, or to describe a line that's horizontal, vertical, or at a 45° angle, press Shift while you describe.

• To draw costless-form lines using the Pencil tool, elevate where you want to begin drawing. You tin can release the mouse button, motion the pointer to a new location, and proceed drawing. To erase parts of the cartoon, select the Pencil Eraser tool and drag across the areas of the drawing that you want to remove.

To edit or resize the markup, select it and drag 1 of the handles to make your adjustments.

To add a popular-upward annotation to the markup, select the Mitt tool, and double-click the markup.

(Optional) Click the close push in the pop-upwards note. A notation icon appears to the right of the markup to betoken the presence of text in the pop-upward note.

To delete a drawing markup, select it and press Delete.

Group and ungroup markups

You can group two or more markups then that your comments function as a single annotate. Yous might group markups temporarily to move them to a new location or to change their properties rather than editing each one individually. Grouping too helps to distinguish your markups from other reviewers' markups in a document review.

You lot cannot grouping text edit markups.

Group markups

Using the Select tool or the Hand tool, select a markup.

Ctrl-click/Command-click to select the markups you want to group.

Right-click within the option, and choose Grouping.

Ungroup markups

Right-click the grouped selection, and choose Ungroup.

In Acrobat Reader, commenting tools are available only in PDFs that have commenting enabled. PDFs in a review workflow typically include commenting rights.

You can utilise the Text Box tool to create a box that contains text. You tin can position it anywhere on the folio and adjust it to any size. A text box remains visible on the document folio; it doesn't close like a pop-upwardly annotation.

Text font and size are based on the organization default settings.

You can add comments to Japanese, Chinese, and Korean text with the Text Box tool, just you lot must have the Asian-linguistic communication resources files installed. Text boxes permit for horizontal text simply.

You can use the Callout tool to create a callout text box. Callout text boxes are peculiarly useful when y'all want to single out—only not obscure—a particular area of a document. Callout text boxes have three parts: a text box, a knee line, and an cease-betoken line. Y'all tin resize each part by dragging a handle. The knee line tin be resized in one direction only; horizontal knee lines can be resized horizontally only; vertical knee lines tin be resized vertically but. The text box expands vertically as you type so that all text remains visible.

You can movement the text box itself or together with the end-point line. The text box moves around a stationary anchor bespeak—the pointer on the end-indicate line—which is created when you first click in the PDF. You can change the color and appearance of the text box and add arrows or leaders to the end-betoken line.

Add a text box

Cull the Add Text Box tool from the Comment toolbar.

Choose the Text Properties icon in the Comment toolbar, and so select the color, alignment, and font attributes for the text.

Text wraps automatically when information technology reaches the right edge of the box.

(Optional) To make further changes to the text box:

• Using the Select tool or the Text Box tool, click an border of the text box to select it, and then drag a corner to resize information technology. Use the Properties toolbar to change the edge and fill options.

• Double-click the text box to edit the text or change the text attributes. Drag across text to select it, and then select options from the Properties toolbar.

To delete the text box, select it, and and then press Delete.

You can also paste a block of text past selecting and copying the text in any awarding, selecting the Hand tool in Acrobat, and choosing Edit > Paste.

Add a callout

In the Comment toolbar, click Drawing Tools and choose the Add together Text Callout tool.

Click once to prepare the location of the end point, and click once more to set the location of the text box.

Choose the Text Backdrop icon in the Comment toolbar, and so select the color, alignment, and font attributes for the text.

Text wraps automatically when information technology reaches the correct edge of the box.

(Optional) To make further changes to the text box:

• To resize the callout, select it and elevate whatever of the handles that appear.

• To move the text box, click inside the box and drag it.

• To motion the unabridged callout, click either the end-signal line or an edge of the text box, and drag it.

• To change the color, opacity, or line characteristics, use the Select tool to right-click the callout, choose Properties, and select the options you want.

In Acrobat Reader, commenting tools are available only in PDFs that have commenting enabled. PDFs in a review workflow typically include commenting rights.

You lot can use the Tape Audio Annotate tool to add a prerecorded WAV or AIFF file as a comment or to tape and place an audio annotate in a document. Audio attachments announced in the Comments list and can exist played back on any platform. However, the appropriate hardware and software for playing audio files must be installed.

Choose the Record Sound tool from the Comment toolbar.

Click in the PDF where you lot want to place the audio comment.

The Sound Records dialog box appears.



The Sound Recorder dialog box without the record push.

The to a higher place dialog box appears when a recording device is non configured on your system.

Click Browse (Windows) or Choose (Mac OS), and select the audio file you lot want to add together.

(Optional) To hear the audio comment, click the Play push button. When y'all're finished, click the End push and so click OK.

Specify options in the Specify Attachment Properties dialog box, and so click OK.

Before you record an audio comment, ensure that your system has a recording device installed and configured.

Cull the Record Audio tool from the Annotate toolbar.

Click in the PDF where you want to place the audio comment.

The Audio Recorder dialog box appears.



The Audio Recorder dialog box with the record button.

The higher up dialog box appears when a recording device is configured on your system.

In the dialog box that appears, click the Tape button and so speak into the microphone. When y'all've finished recording, click the Terminate push button, and then click OK.

Specify options in the Sound Attachment Properties dialog box, and and so click OK.

In Acrobat Reader, commenting tools are available simply in PDFs that have commenting enabled. PDFs in a review workflow typically include commenting rights.

Use the Attach File tool to embed a file at a selected location in a PDF, so that the reader can open information technology for viewing. By calculation attachments every bit a annotate, you lot can reference longer documents that can't hands be pasted into a pop-up note or text box. If yous move the PDF to a new location, the embedded file automatically goes with information technology. To view an zipper, the reader must accept an awarding installed that tin open up the zipper.

Exist sure to use the Attach tool when attaching files for a document review. Document-level file attachments that you attach using the Attach A File tool from the Tools > Edit PDF > More menu aren't tracked with other comments in a review workflow and may crusade your attached comments to be lost.

Cull the Attach File tool from the Comment toolbar.

Click in the PDF where yous want to place the attachment.

Select the file that you lot want to attach, and and then click Open. If you're attaching a PDF, you tin highlight areas of interest in the file using comments.

In the File Attachment Properties dialog box, select the settings for the file icon that appears in the PDF.

The comment attachment also appears in the Attachments tab (in the left navigation pane) with a page number indicating its location.

To delete the zipper, right-click the attached comment icon, and choose Delete.

In Acrobat Reader, commenting tools are available just in PDFs that have commenting enabled. PDFs in a review workflow typically include commenting rights.

You can utilise the Paste Clipboard Image Equally Stamp Tool to add together images to a PDF. You lot can copy most image formats from drawing and prototype-editing applications, such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. If you desire to add the prototype to PDFs repeatedly, create a custom postage of the image.

The Paste Clipboard Epitome Equally Postage Tool isn't available until you copy an paradigm.

Copy an image by doing 1 of the following:

• In Acrobat, cull Edit > Have A Snapshot , and select an image from a PDF.

• In some other awarding, select an image and cull Edit > Re-create.

Cull Tools > Comment. In the Annotate toolbar, click the Add together Stamp tool and select Paste Clipboard Image As Stamp Tool.

Click in the PDF where y'all want the prototype to appear.

• To move the image, drag it.

• To resize the image, select it and then drag one of its handles. Press the Shift key when resizing the image to maintain the original proportions.

• To change the image backdrop, right-click it and choose Backdrop.

• To delete the image, right-click information technology and choose Delete.

Commenting preferences affect both the appearance of and the way you view annotations and markups in PDFs.

A reviewer can place comments anywhere within the document frame. As a upshot, sometimes you need to curl or zoom out to run across comments that are located off the page.

In the Preferences dialog box under Categories, select Commenting.

Font, Font Size

In Windows, you can determine the font and the size of text in pop-upwardly notes. In Mac OS, y'all tin select only Large, Medium, or Small-scale settings for the font. This setting applies to all new and existing comments.

Popular-upwards Opacity

Determines the opacity of annotate pop-up notes in values from one to 100. When a pop-up note is open up but not selected, an opacity value of 100 makes the note opaque, while lower values make it more transparent.

Enable Text Indicators And Tooltips

Shows a tool tip when you lot identify the pointer over a comment that includes a pop-up annotation. The tool tip contains the writer name, comment status, and two lines of the text. Selected by default.

Impress Notes And Pop-ups

Specifies that pop-up notes associated with comments, and icons for note, audio, and file attachments impress exactly equally they appear on the page.

Instead of selecting this option, you can print comment text in various layouts past choosing File > Print, and click Summarize Comments. For more details, refer the document to print comments.

Evidence Lines Connecting Comment Markups To Their Pop-ups On Mouse Rollover

When y'all place the pointer over a comment markup (such as a highlight or a notation icon), the shaded connector line appears. Selected by default.

Ensure That Popular-ups Are Visible As The Document Is Scrolled

As you scroll a PDF, the pop-up notes on a given folio shift to stay in view inside the document pane. Selected by default.

Automatically Open up Comment Popular-ups For Comments Other Than Notes

A pop-upwards notation appears when you create a annotate using a drawing tool, the Stamp tool, or the Pencil tool.

Hide Annotate Pop-ups When Comments List Is Open

Helps reduce screen ataxia when a page includes many comments. Selected by default.

Automatically Open up Pop-ups On Mouse Rollover

When you place the pointer over a comment of whatever blazon, including cartoon markups and stamps, the pop-upwards note opens.

Always Utilise Log-in Name For Author Proper noun

Determines which proper name appears in the pop-upwards note y'all create. If this pick is selected, the Login Name in the Identity panel of the Preferences dialog box is used. If this selection isn't selected, the default proper noun you specify for Writer in a comment properties dialog box is used. Selected by default.

Create New Pop-ups Aligned To The Border Of The Document

Aligns popular-upwards notes with the right side of the document window, regardless of where the comment markup (such as a notation icon or highlighting comment) is added. If this selection is deselected, the pop-up note appears side by side to the annotate markup. Selected by default.

Allow nested respond to sticky notes (requires restart)

Allows respond to Sticky Notes with a single-thread experience. If this option is selected, each annotation appears similar a conversation and all replies appear like a unmarried-thread experience.

Enable Text Selection For Highlight, Strikethrough and Underline

Allows y'all to select and copy text for highlight, strike-through, and underline comments

Bear witness checkbox

Displays the checkbox consistenty for all comments.

Copy Encircled Text Into Drawing Annotate Pop-Ups

Copies text that y'all circle using the drawing tools in the pop-upwards note associated with the cartoon markup.

Copy Selected Text Into Highlight, Cross-Out, And Underline Annotate Pop-ups

Copies selected text to the pop-up notation associated with text editing comments, such every bit those created past the Highlight Text tool.

In Acrobat Reader, complete commenting tools are bachelor only in PDFs that accept commenting enabled. PDFs in a review workflow typically include commenting rights.

You tin can alter the color and advent of comments or markups earlier or after you create them. You can prepare the new look as the default appearance for that tool.

To change how your proper noun appears in comments, open the Preferences dialog box, select Commenting, then deselect E'er Utilize Log-in Name For Author Name.

For the selected tool, you lot tin can use the Color Picker and Text Properties icons availabe on the Comment toolbar.

The Color Picker tool on the Annotate toolbar

The Text formatting tool on the Comment toolbar

Alternatively, y'all can cull Properties from the right-click context menu, and then select advisable options.

Backdrop, with note icon selected

With pop-up text and formatting options

After you create a comment, right-click the comment or its icon and and then choose Backdrop from the righ-click context menu.

In the Properties dialog box, do whatever of the following, and and so click OK:

• Click the Appearance tab to alter such options equally the color and type of icon used. The type of comment selected determines which options are available.

• Click the General tab to change the name of the writer and subject of the comment.

• Click the Review History tab to come across the history of changes people accept made to the status of a comment during a review.

• Select Locked at the lesser of the Properties dialog box to preclude the comment from beingness edited or deleted.

• Select Brand Properties Default at the lesser of the Properties dialog box to utilise these properties to all subsequent comments of this blazon.

Afterwards you create a comment, correct-click the comment and choose Properties.

Prepare the backdrop as desired, and click OK.

Correct-click the comment and cull Make Current Properties Default.

All comments yous create using this tool display the properties you fix. Existing comments aren't affected, nor is the advent of text in pop-upwards notes.

Use @mentions to go attention of whatsoever reviewer.

When y'all utilise @mention in your personal commenting notes in a PDF file, the review mode gets enabled for you. The reviewers get an invitation email with a link to the Document Deject shared review file.

In the comment text, click the @ symbol.



A popup menu volition announced with a list of reviewers. Choose the reviewer you lot desire to mention.

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