I'm using Acrobat Pro 7.0.

I have a PDF named FileA.PDF with some reviewer comments. I replied to
the comments, then wanted to send just the comments back to the
reviewer. I did a Comments > Export that created a FileA.FDF in the
same folder. When I double click the FDF file I get the original PDF.
Even the filename in the title bar is the original PDF.

What's going on?

Richard Evans wrote:
> I'm using Acrobat Pro 7.0.
> 
> I have a PDF named FileA.PDF with some reviewer comments. I replied to
> the comments, then wanted to send just the comments back to the
> reviewer. I did a Comments > Export that created a FileA.FDF in the
> same folder. When I double click the FDF file I get the original PDF.
> Even the filename in the title bar is the original PDF.
> 
> What's going on?
Open the FDF file in a text editor, and you will see that you have not
really saved the whole PDF. That should be obvious from the filesize anyway.

Somewhere in the FDF there will be an object linking it back to the
original PDF, normally given as a path relative to the FDF.

Details are buried in the Acrobat Manual, in the Chapter on 'Interactive
Features' in the section on 'Interactive Forms' in the
subsection on 'Forms Data Format'. Well, I did say 'buried'!

It is an optional entry in the 'FDF dictionary' with

KEY: F
TYPE: file specification
VALUE: (Optional) The _source_file_ or _target_file_: the PDF
document that this FDF was exported from or is intended to be
imported into.

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> I'm using Acrobat Pro 7.0.
>
> I have a PDF named FileA.PDF with some reviewer comments. I replied to
> the comments, then wanted to send just the comments back to the
> reviewer. I did a Comments > Export that created a FileA.FDF in the
> same folder. When I double click the FDF file I get the original PDF.
> Even the filename in the title bar is the original PDF.
>
> What's going on?

It's b/c FDF has the original file path in it's structure. What exactly are 
you trying to achive? 

"Krzysztof Kordulasinski" <kordulasinski.krzysztof@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>Uzytkownik "Richard Evans" <infodex@mindspring.com> napisal w wiadomosci 
>news:tkcbv2pin3clfgr33cjr6mrst0vs05e3u2@4ax.com...
>> I'm using Acrobat Pro 7.0.
>>
>> I have a PDF named FileA.PDF with some reviewer comments. I replied to
>> the comments, then wanted to send just the comments back to the
>> reviewer. I did a Comments > Export that created a FileA.FDF in the
>> same folder. When I double click the FDF file I get the original PDF.
>> Even the filename in the title bar is the original PDF.
>>
>> What's going on?
>
>It's b/c FDF has the original file path in it's structure. What exactly are 
>you trying to achive? 

My question has been answered. Nothing in what I had read explained
the connection. I thought the FDF was simply a standalone file.

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> "Krzysztof Kordulasinski" <kordulasinski.krzysztof@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Uzytkownik "Richard Evans" <infodex@mindspring.com> napisal w wiadomosci
>>news:tkcbv2pin3clfgr33cjr6mrst0vs05e3u2@4ax.com...
>>> I'm using Acrobat Pro 7.0.
>>>
>>> I have a PDF named FileA.PDF with some reviewer comments. I replied to
>>> the comments, then wanted to send just the comments back to the
>>> reviewer. I did a Comments > Export that created a FileA.FDF in the
>>> same folder. When I double click the FDF file I get the original PDF.
>>> Even the filename in the title bar is the original PDF.
>>>
>>> What's going on?
>>
>>It's b/c FDF has the original file path in it's structure. What exactly 
>>are
>>you trying to achive?
>
> My question has been answered. Nothing in what I had read explained
> the connection. I thought the FDF was simply a standalone file.

Simply open the FDF file in text-editor and you will find your path in FDF 
file. You can even put a Web-Adress there if you like to. FDF is a way to 
transport PDF data, so it has a functionality to bind to a PDF file. In my 
example FDF file I have:
/D/_firmy/IT Media/0009. Komentarze online/__katalog/katalog 2_Review.pdf

This is a path to my PDF file. If another user Imports fdf to his PDF the 
comments gonna be visible anyway.
I was also using XFDF file to transport Form-Data to another user and I was 
binding data to a form on a webserver with the PATH option. I think, that 
this functionality may come in handy very offten.


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