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Overview

Comment Tools Overview

Foxit PhantomPDF Mac provides a full set of feature rich tools to help you comment on PDF files easily. Comment tools include the Text Markup tools, Typewriter, Note tool, Drawing tools, stamp tools, and measure tools. While adding comments with Text Markup tools, Typewriter tools, Pin tools, Drawing tools, or stamp tools, you can also click the pin icon in the Comments toolbar to keep the tool selected, so you can use the tools continuously without having to select the specific tool after each use.

Text Markup Tools: Add text markups to the PDF file.

Typewriter tools:  Add lines of text to the PDF file.

Pin tools: Add note comments or file attachments to the PDF file.

Drawing Tools: Add drawing markups to the PDF file.

Stamp Tool: Add stamps to the PDF file.

Measure Tools: Measure the distance, perimeter, and area of objects in the PDF file.

Comment Format Settings: Change the appearance of the comments.

Customize Comment Tools

You can follow the steps below to customize the Comments toolbar to ensure that the comment tools that are mostly used are close at hand.

Tip: You can click Reset in the Customize Toolbar dialog box to reset the Comments toolbar to the default mode.

Add Comments in the PDF File

Add a Text Markup

Add a Note Comment

Add a File Attachment as a Comment

Add a Drawing Markup

Add a Rectangle, Line, Arrow, Circle, Polyline, Polygon, or Cloud

Draw a Free-form Shape

Highlight an Area

Add a Text Comment

Add a Stamp

Measure an Object

The Measures Tools enable you to measure distance, perimeter, and area of objects in PDF documents.

Set Measuring Preferences

Before measuring an object, you can go to Foxit PhantomPDF > Preferences > Measuring to specify the unit, label, and leader for measurements.

Measure the Distance, Perimeter, and Area

Tip: You can also choose to complete or cancel measurement by right-clicking the measurement and choosing options from the context menu.

Change the Measurement Formats

After you select the measuring tool, you will find the measurement format panel on the right of the document pane, which allows you to set the scale ratio, snap measurement, etc.

Manage Comments

View All Comments

The Comments panel displays all comments in the PDF for you to view, find, mark, or reply comments easily.

View All Comments in Comments Panel

Show or Hide All Comments or Popup Notes

You can show or hide all comments or popup notes in the PDF document with the following steps:

Tip: If you choose to hide all comments in a PDF document, comments will not be displayed in the Comments panel as well.

Change the Appearances of Comments

You can change the appearances of comments by one of the following two ways:

1. Change the appearances of comments in the Properties dialog box

Tip: In the Properties dialog box, you can: 1) check Locked option to lock the current settings and prevent others from changing the properties; 2) check Set Current Properties as Default option to set the current properties as the default.

2. Change the appearances of comments from the Comments toolbar (available for text markups, drawing markups, and pin comments)

Line Thickness: Set the line thickness of the comment. This option is available for comments with border lines (drawing markups and text comments).

Line Color: Set the color and opacity of the comment.

Font: Set the font, font color, font style, font size, and text alignment. This option is available for text comments added by Typewriter, Callout, or Textbox tool. You should select the text first if you want to change the appearance of text added by those text comment tools.

Tip: Stamps are preset in Foxit PhantomPDF Mac. You cannot change the appearance of stamps.

Move the Comments

Note: You cannot move the text markups.

Delete the Comments

Please do one of the following to delete a comment:

Reply to Comments

Reply to the Original Comments

To reply to an original comment in the pop-up note, do the following:

To reply to an original comment in the Comments panel, do the following:

Respond to Comment Replies

Right-click the title of a reply in the comment pop-up note, and do the following:

Set a Status

The status of a comment indicates the review process or action of the review participants.

You can do one of the following to add a review status to indicate which comment you have accepted, rejected, canceled, or completed:

Tip: To remove the review status, follow the steps above and choose None from the context menu.

You can do one of the following to add a checkmark status to indicate which comment you have read or require further action:

Tip: To remove the checkmark status, follow the steps above and choose Remove Checkmark, or uncheck the status box .

Sort Comments

You can sort comments by page, author, creation date, type, status, or checkmark.