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.
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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.
2. Select the Summarize Comments button in the Print dialog box.
3. Select Yes in the dialog box asking if you would like to include the summarized comments in the printout.
4. Select the Print button in the Print dialog box.
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.
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 Create Comment Summary.
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.)
6. Select the Create Comment Summary button. The comment summary will appear in a separate tab named Summary of Comments on [Your File Name].
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.
5. Select Print notes and pop-ups in the Preferences dialog box.
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.
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.
Updated September 02, 2021
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.
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!
Hello! I’d like to print the pdf without the markups. When I choose Document under Comments and Form it still prints the markups.
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!
Huge help. Thanks!
I am glad to hear that. Thank you for visiting!
~Erin