Comments Preferences

The Comments Preferences section contains all of the comment, markup, and annotation settings for PDF Studio Viewer.

To open the Comments Preferences dialog:

1. 1. Go to File Tab > Preferences
   2. Select Comments from the panel on the left of the preferences dialog to view or modify these preferences.

Settings

Tool Properties - Contains the default preferences for each of the individual annotation tools. To edit the default values for an annotation, click on the tool's name to open its properties dialog. Then set the values you wish to be the default and click OK to save the changes.

Drawing

• Allow drawing overlapping comments: Allows annotations to be drawn directly on top of another annotation.
• Use Ctrl + Drag to copy selected annotations

Note: When "Allow drawing overlapping comments" is disabled, annotations can still be overlapped by first creating the annotation on a different part of the page then dragging it over the existing annotation.

Text Markups

• Copy text to note: when using text markup annotations the selected text will be copied into the annotation's note.

Author

• Author: This name will be associated with annotations added to the document

Comments Panel

• Show comments pane on opening a PDF with comments: When checked will automatically open the Comments Panel when a document that contains annotations is opened. 

Viewing

• Enable text indicators & tooltips: When checked will display speech bubbles and tooltips on annotations that contain comments.