Printing PDF annotations in Preview

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Printing PDF annotations in Preview

I'm not sure exactly where this question should go, but it is a printing problem...

I'm trying out Preview's annotation feature, and it's pretty nice, and looks great on the screen. But what if I want to print out the notes and annotations I've made? When I print, I see the little word-bubble marks, and highlighted text works fine -- but the comments themselves, which appear outside the margins onscreen, don't print. I also can't find any way to print them, even on a separate page.

Anybody know?

MacBook Pro 2.5GHz, PowerBook G4/867, Mac Mini, iPhone, tv. Airport Express, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Oct 21, 2008 10:54 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 22, 2008 10:18 AM in response to miked378

There doesn't seem to be an obvious way to do this, you're right. Perhaps sending feedback to Apple will accelerate a solution.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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Answer 2

Oct 30, 2008 7:44 AM in response to miked378

Hi Mike, I had the same problem, and it doesn't appear to be possible with Preview yet.

However, it was possible using Adobe Professional 8 (CS3), clicking on the "comments" button at bottom left in that app, brought up several options including printing comments. This doesn't even appear to be listed in their Help Viewer.

I don't have Adobe Reader so I can't say if this feature is included in that (free) app.

Good luck

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