Comments on: To Change Identity in Adobe Acrobat Professional…

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:53:33 +0000

Here is what I did to solve the problem.

Uninstall all previous/later versions of adobe except the one you are using.

- In Acrobat / Edit Preferences / Commenting, turn off “Always use Log-in Name for Author Name”

using regedit from a command promt

- Open Registry and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\7.0\Annots\cAnnots\cAnnot\tauthor

Change to value of tauthor to the name you wish to appear.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:50:36 +0000

This is great however what version of Acrobat are you using? I am using 7.1.4 which is the latest update for V7 and when I go to the General Tab I can in fact change the name however it does allow me to “Make Properties Default” because the checkbox is not there. The only thing there is “Locked” (which is unchecked). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Zhao Yong

Zhao Yong — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:32:55 +0000

Thank you, sir. You really helped me a lot!!
I am using Acrobat 8 professional..
Greeting from Shenzhen, China..

By: Sammy

Sammy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:22:54 +0000

Thank for this solution but it’s not possible to apply it on Adobe Acrobat Standard 7.
The “Make Properties Default” checkbox at the bottom does’nt exist.

Do you have any information about this mistake?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:27:39 +0000

Thank you SO much. My IT guy was being funny when he created a login name of Miss Jenny … but it started getting a little embarrassing when I’d comment on client documents with that name. You are a lifesaver!

By: D L Reynolds

D L Reynolds — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:36:57 +0000

A million thanks! This was driving me nuts!

By: Sven

Sven — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:52:50 +0000

Yes!!

Good one, this one had me stumped too…

Cheers, Sven