How to summarize comments in PDF

This article will tell you how to create a comment summary in PDF with Foxit PDF Editor.

Summarizing comments is an easy way to help you directly obtain a synopsis of comments associated with the PDF. The application supports to create a comment summary PDF. To create a comment summary, do as below:

1. Choose Comment > Summarize Comments.

2. In Create Comment Summary dialog box, do the following:

A.        Choose the layout of the summary and there are five types of layouts for you to choose:

Ÿ   L1– Document and comment with connector lines on separate pages

Ÿ   L2– Document and comment with connector lines on single pages

Ÿ   L3– Comments only

Ÿ   L4– Document and comment with sequence numbers on separate pages

Ÿ   L5– Document and comment with sequence numbers on single pages

                                               L1                                                                                                                                                                                 L2

                               L3                                                                                                                                                                                            L4

              L5

B.        Comment Type – Choose the comment type you want to summarize.

C.        Paper Size-Select the paper size of the summary

D.        Font Size – Select the font size of the summary.

E.         Sort comments by – Choose how to sort the comments.

F.         Include pages– Specify the page range you need to summarize.

3. Click OK and a PDF named “Summary of Comments on [original document name].pdf” will be opened automatically. You can rename it before you save.