Hi!
Need to use different color highlights on REALLY long PDF documents to illustrate different things I need to do with the read text. For example:
Green for Established, Red for Historic, Orange for Theoretical.
Now, easy to do!
But...it is the SORTING in the comments pane and easily jumping to next comment that's the issue, because none of the PDF applications I've tried offer an option for sorting comments by their actual PHYSICAL location on the page.
Here's an example of what I mean.
Imagine if I read this line:
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle
and, dimwit that I am, highlighted ONLY
The roots of education are bitter
having missed the the punchline there - but the fruit is sweet.
Now, having plowed through another 300 pages or so of the text, imagine I went back in review and saw it.
Ah! PROFOUND insight had! I highlight the second piece in the same color.
But, since the best I can do is date sorting that would leave the two pieces separated in the comments summary.
The roots of education are bitter
another highlight
another highlight
another highlight...
but the fruit is sweet.
Worse, still, if I was able to create a keyboard shortcut for jumping ahead to each next same-color comment, I'd be jumping ahead 300 pages before I saw
but the fruit is sweet.
part.
Now, PDF X-Change Editor calls this type of sorting - where things are ordered by their physical location on a page, top to bottom - "Visual Order".
And! It is used in several places. Notably when a user exports comments to Excel, they are organized by Visual Order, despite the date.
However, not in the actual READING any document IN the application itself.
Thus, my question: can ABBYY sort colored highlights by color AND order them by their actual physical location on the page? This as opposed to ordering by creation date.
And, if so, is there any way to set up a keyboard shortcut so that I could jump through comments thus arranged?
Sincerely,
OT