Nitro PDF Professional 6 includes a powerful new way to quickly summarize all of the comments in your PDF documents. The resultant summary allows you to easily view all of the comments alongside the document’s contents – and, if you’re so inclined, print out the summaries for paper-based viewing.

Today we’ll take a first-look at this feature, including a quick demo video of it in action. If you’re not familiar with all our tools to annotate and highlight PDF files, then you might like to check out our full summary of features.

When comments are summarized using the new feature, each comment is displayed as a callout alongside the original PDF page, allowing you to quickly view the contents of each comment side-by-side with the original document. Each callout is also assigned an ID, and an accompanying summary table lists each comment by ID, along with the comment’s contents and other details. This makes it very convenient to view all of the comments at once, as well as flip back and forth between pages of the document to view comments individually.

You can select whether to summarize comments for viewing onscreen (as PDF) or on paper and can also customize how you would like the summarized comments to be presented. Some of the key things you can control when summarizing are:

• Grouping. Sort and group the comments by author, time added, type, and so on.
• Formatting. Control how comments are presented with font, text size, page margins and more.
• Smart (paper-saving) summaries. Only summarize the pages containing comments and exclude the rest – a great way to minimize paper use if you like to print out your summaries.

How to summarize PDF comments

If you have Nitro Pro installed and would like to try out this feature, just add some comments to a PDF and then follow the instructions below:

To summarize comments as PDF:

1. On the Review tab, in the Review group, click Summarize Comments.
2. Select the desired page range.
3. Optionally, click Settings to configure settings.
4. Click OK.

To summarize comments for printing:

1. On the Review tab, in the Review group, click the arrow below Summarize Comments, then choose Summarize Comments and Print.
2. Select the desired page range.
3. Optionally, click Settings to configure settings.
4. Click OK.

We’d love to hear what you think about the new feature. Please share your thoughts in the comments below.