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Three Ways to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

By Erin Wright 4 Comments

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC and Adobe Acrobat Standard DC offer several ways to print PDFs with comments and mark-ups. Today’s tutorial explains three different methods:

1. Print comment and mark-up summaries on separate pages

2. Print comments and mark-ups with lines to the text

3. Print comment and mark-up symbols without the text in the comment and mark-up pop-ups.

This tutorial is also available as a YouTube video showing all the steps in real time.

Watch more than fifty other videos about Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat on my YouTube channel.

Print Comment and Mark-Up Summaries on Separate Pages

You can print summaries of comments and mark-ups on separate pages from the text:

1. Select the Print button in the main toolbar.

Image of Adobe Acrobat DC Print Button | How to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

2. Select the Summarize Comments button in the Print dialog box.

Image of Adobe Acrobat DC Summarize Comments Button | How to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

3. Select Yes in the dialog box asking if you would like to include the summarized comments in the printout.

Image of Adobe Acrobat DC Print Comment Summary Dialog Box | How to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

4. Select the Print button in the Print dialog box.

Image of Adobe Acrobat DC Print Button in Print Dialog Box | How to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

Pro Tip: You can also print comment and mark-up summaries on separate pages by selecting Print with Comment Summary in the Comment Pane’s option menu.

Print Comments and Mark-Ups with Lines to the Text

You can print comments and mark-ups with lines to the text:

1. Select the Tools tab.

Image of Acrobat DC Tools Tab | How to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

2. Select the Comment button in the Review & Approve section of the Tools Center.

Comment Button in Adobe Acrobat DC Tools Center | How to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

3. Select the Options menu in the Comment pane.

Image of Adobe Acrobat DC Comment Pane Options Button | How to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

4. Select Create Comment Summary.

Image of Adobe Acrobat DC Create Comment Summary Option | How to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

5. Select Document and comments with connector lines on separate pages or Document and comments with connector lines on single pages. You can also choose to print comments only or print the document and comments with sequenced numbers on separate pages. (The sequenced numbers are like footnote numbers.)

Image of Adobe Acrobat DC Create Comment Summary Dialog Box | How to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

6. Select the Create Comment Summary button. The comment summary will appear in a separate tab named Summary of Comments on [Your File Name].

Image of Adobe Acrobat DC Create Cmment Summary Dialog Box with Create Comment Summary Button Highlighted | How to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

7. Select the Print button in the main toolbar.

8. Select the Print button in the Print dialog box.

Pro Tip: If you want to share the comments and edited text with other reviewers without sharing the original document, you can save the Summary of Comments on [Your File Name] tab as a separate PDF.

Print Comment and Mark-Up Symbols

You can also print PDFs with just comment and mark-up symbols instead of printing the symbols with the text in the corresponding comment and mark-up pop-ups:

1. Select the Tools tab.

2. Select the Comment button in the Review & Approve section of the Tools Center.

3. Select the Options menu in the Comment pane.

4. Select Commenting Preferences.

Image of Adobe Acrobat DC Comment Pane Comment Preferences Option | How to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

5. Select Print notes and pop-ups in the Preferences dialog box.

Image of Adobe Acrobat DC Preferences Dialog Box | How to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

6. Select the OK button in the Preferences dialog box.

7. Select the Print button in the main toolbar.

8. Select Documents and Markups in the Print dialog box’s Comments & Forms drop-down menu.

Image of Adobe Acrobat DC Print Dialog Box Comments & Forms Drop-Down Menu | How to Print PDFs with Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

9. Select the Print button in the Print dialog box.

Pro Tip: Acrobat will keep the Print notes and pop-ups option selected in the Preferences dialog box indefinitely. So, remember to deselect that option if you don’t want future documents to print with comment and mark-up symbols.

You can find many other easy-to-follow tutorials on my Adobe Acrobat page, including How to Use Adobe Acrobat DC’s Comment and Mark-Up Tools and How to Find and Replace Text in Adobe Acrobat DC.

The idea for this tutorial came from a viewer’s comment on my YouTube channel. (Thank you, viewer!) If you have a specific Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word question that you would like me to tackle in a future tutorial, please let me know in the comment section below.

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  1. Megan says

    May 14, 2020 at 5:56 pm

    Can similar methods be used to export PDFs from Adobe Reader? My thesis chair sent me a document that he commented on using Adobe Reader, but all I see are the tiny blue carrots where he anchored the comments. Is there a way to export the document with the comments? A summary page would probably work well for this case.

    I use Apple’s Preview program, so I’m not familiar with Adobe Reader and I can’t test possible solutions.

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    • Erin Wright says

      May 16, 2020 at 11:23 am

      Thank you for visiting my blog. Adobe Reader does have the ability to print comment summaries; however, I’m not an Apple user, so I can’t confirm that feature’s availability on Mac. Best of luck!

      Reply
  2. Shelia Hammer says

    July 20, 2020 at 11:01 am

    Hello! I’d like to print the pdf without the markups. When I choose Document under Comments and Form it still prints the markups.

    Reply
    • Erin Wright says

      July 24, 2020 at 11:05 am

      Thank you for visiting my blog! If the markups are still printing after choosing Document, you may want to go into the Preferences dialog box (as shown in step 5 of the Print Comment and Mark-Up Symbols section above) and deselect “Print notes and pop-ups.” I hope that helps. Best of luck!

      Reply

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