ADOBE READER 8
User Guide
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See also
“Change the look of your comments” on page 56
Add a prerecorded audio comment
1
Choose Tools > Comment & Markup > Record Audio Comment tool and then click in the PDF where you
want to place the audio comment.
2 Click Browse (Windows) or Choose (Mac OS), and select the audio file you want to add.
3
(Optional) To hear the audio comment, click the Play button . When you’re finished, click Stop and then click OK.
4 Specify options in the Properties dialog box, and then click OK.
Record an audio comment
1
Choose Tools > Comment & Markup > Record Audio Comment tool and then click in the PDF where you
want to place the audio comment.
2 In the dialog box that appears, click the Record button and then speak into the microphone. When you’ve
finished recording, click the Stop button , and then click OK.
3 Specify options in the Properties dialog box, and then click OK.
Add comments in a file attachment
CommentingtoolsareavailableonlyinPDFsthathavecommentingenabled.PDFsinareviewworkflowtypically
include commenting rights.
Use the Attach File As Comment tool to embed a file at a selected location in a PDF, so that the reader can open it
for viewing. By adding attachments as a comment, you can reference longer documents that can’t easily be pasted
intoapop-upnoteortextbox.IfyoumovethePDFtoanewlocation,theembeddedfileautomaticallygoeswithit.
To view an attachment, the reader must have an application installed that can open the attachment.
1 Choose Tools > Comment & Markup > Attach A File As A Comment Tool .
2 Click in the PDF where you want to place the attachment.
3 Select the file that you want to attach, and then click Select. If you’re attaching a PDF, you can highlight areas of
interest in the file using comments.
4 In the Properties dialog box, select the settings for the file icon that appears in the PDF, and then click Close.
The comment attachment appears in the Attachments tab with a page number indicating its location.
Note: To delete the attachment, right-click/Control-click the attached comment icon, and choose Delete.
Paste images as comments
CommentingtoolsareavailableonlyinPDFsthathavecommentingenabled.PDFsinareviewworkflowtypically
include commenting rights.
YoucanusethePasteClipboardImageAsStamptooltoaddimagestoaPDF.Youcancopymostimageformatsfrom
drawing and image-editing applications, such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. If you want to add the
image to PDFs repeatedly, create a custom stamp of the image.