How to remove all highlighted backgrounds in one click?

[mattad]

Assume I ihave a long pdf document where I highlighted approx 40 to 50 text phrases. with a background color.

Later I want to remove all these highllghts. I could do this by selecting each highligh part manually step by step and disable it individually.
However this would be very tedious and user unfriendly.

Is there a "remove all highlights" function menu which let me do this with one click?

Matt

[Willy Van Nuffel]

I do not know if it is the most easy way, but this is what I should do:

via PDF-XChange Viewer:
- first, activate the Comments pane, via the View-menu > Other Panes > Comments
- then, in the Comments pane, right click to view the Options menu,
- click "Group By" and then click "By Type"
- finally, right click the group header "Highlight(x)" and click "Delete"
- confirm by clicking "Yes"

or, via PDF-XChange Editor:
- first, activate the Comments pane, via the View-menu > Other Panes > Comments
- then, in the Comments pane, click "Options", and click "Group By Type"
- finally, click the group header "Highlight(x)" and click the "Delete" icon in the toolbar of the Comments pane

Regards.

[Will - Tracker Supp]

Thanks Willy!

[mattad]

Ok, thank you it works.

However it is very tedious and user unfriendly.

A new menu in "Comments" or "Tools" with the label "Remove all comments and highlights" would be better.

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hello mattad,

An alternative approach would be to e.g. run some JS that will delete all annotations of a given type for you, and you can have this code assigned to a custom button.

The JS you will need could be as simple as this one:

Code: Select all

annots = this.getAnnots();
for (i = 0; i < annots.length; i++)
{
  if (annots[i].type == "Highlight")
  {
    annots[i].destroy();
  }
}

If you wish to just execute it - press Ctrl+J on your keyboard with the Editor open, and this will open the JS console. Copy and paste the code in the console and execute it.

If you wish to make a custom button for this code you can find a sample e.g. here:
viewtopic.php?f=62&t=22821#p88112
The sample there includes script to print all opened documents - but it can easily be modified to include the code for removing all highlights.

Regards,
Stefan