IDMarkz – Auto Open PDF in Acrobat and Annotate Older InDesign Files

*This workflow allows you to now add PDF comments to older InDesign files (CC 2018 and earlier indd files) without having to open them in the latest version of InDesign and resave them. Of course you can add comments to InDesign CC 2019 and later files as well.

1. Make sure and Uncheck any file formats under the Automation Preferences/On Document Open: Export area. Otherwise you will end up with multiple files being output.
   
   
   
   
2. Open an InDesign CS6 file in IDMarkz
   
   
   
   
3. Click on the Open in Acrobat icon (this does require Acrobat DC to work)
   
   
   
   
4. Add Annotations in Acrobat DC to the PDF exported from IDMarkz
   
   
   
   
5. Save the PDF with the newly added annotations out of Acrobat DC
   
   
6. Open the Original InDesign CS6 document in CC 2019
   
   
   
   
7. Import Comments from the PDF Created by IDMarkz that was Annotated and saved by Acrobat DC.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
8. The comments you added in Acrobat DC are now associated with your InDesign CS6 file!
   

*You may want to make a copy of the original CS6 document as a backup before you try this. If you “accidentally” save the file while it is open in InDesign CC 2019, you will lose backward compatibility with CS6 as your InDesign file would become a CC 2019 file. *But, IDMarkz can convert your CC 2019 file to IDML and then open it back up in CS6 (with the proper IDMarkz Preferences set).