Woke up to an update from LiquidText for comments; auto-positioning them to the margins of our documents, and I found the perfect culprit. You see how this comment overlaps onto the PDF? Covering some of the text in the PDF? Here’s another one, but this one is not so bad. And another one!
The app can fix that now, so that your comments don’t overlap to cover your PDF. I was expecting the comments to anchor on the edge of the document, though. But it did solve the overlapping issues in these cases. This new feature is automatically turned on for new projects, so we’ll use old ones to see the setup we had before this update. We can still move the comments to overlap over the PDF in these old projects.
Turning on the feature automatically moves all the comments to the margins of the document. Now trying to overlap them is impossible; they just snap back to the margin. The problem, though, comes with documents that have narrow margins like this one. The comment will still cover parts of your document in that case. That is why I was expecting them to go to the edge of the document, instead of the margins.
All the sample documents in LiquidText have quite wide margins. That is probably why our developers thought the new position is ideal. But, this document doesn’t have a margin that big. This one is a little better, but let’s see how that turns out. After going through a couple of PDFs, I realised that only a handful are affected. What do you guys think is better, a margin or edge anchor for our comments? I am going with edge anchor on this one. It would be more inclusive, I’d say, that way no PDF is left out.
