Adobe Acrobat XI - Manual (Page 317)

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Reviews and commenting
Last updated 1/14/2015
Ungroup markups
❖ Right-click the grouped selection, and choose Ungroup.
Add comments in a text box or callout
Note: In Reader, commenting tools are available only in PDFs that have commenting enabled. PDFs in a review workflow
typically include commenting rights.
You can use the Text Box tool to create a box that contains text. You can position it anywhere on the page and adjust
it to any size. A text box remains visible on the document page; it doesn’t close like a pop-up note.
Another way to add a text box is simply to paste copied text into the PDF. Text font and size are based on the system
default settings.
Note: You can add comments to Japanese, Chinese, and Korean text with the Text Box tool, but you must have the Asian-
language resource files installed. Text boxes allow for horizontal text only.
You can use the Callout tool to create a callout text box. Callout text boxes are especially useful when you want to
single out—but not obscure—a particular area of a document. Callout text boxes have three parts: a text box, a knee
line, and an end-point line. You can resize each part by dragging a handle. The knee line can be resized in one direction
only; horizontal knee lines can be resized horizontally only; vertical knee lines can be resized vertically only. The text
box expands vertically as you type so that all text remains visible.
You can move the text box itself or together with the end-point line. The text box moves around a stationary anchor
point—the arrow on the end-point line—which is created when you first click in the PDF. You can modify the color
and appearance of the text box and add arrows or leaders to the end-point line.
Add a text box
1 Choose Comment > Drawing Markups > Add Text Box .
2 Click in the PDF.
Choose View > Show/Hide > Toolbar Items >Properties Bar, and set the color, alignment, and font attributes for the
text.
3 Type the text.