Using comments toolbar

I cannot underline or highlight my pdf's. I have Windows 7 and Acrobat 9 Pro free trial.

I am having a similar problem. The users of Reader who receive my pdf documents cannot use the comment and markup tools. I have Acrobat Standard 9.1.2 installed in Windows. There are various versions of Reader installed through the company, but none earlier than version 7. The autogenerated text that prints with the emails generated reads as follows:
You are invited to review the document: Intake Fax.pdf. You can use Adobe Acrobat 6 or later to review this document.
Click the attachment to open it in Acrobat, and make your comments using Comment & Markup tools. When you are finished, click "Send Comments" to return your comments to the author.
I had read that creating the document in Word could be the source of the problem, but I have tried creating the document from Notepad and had the same issues. I currently have a pdf created in Acrobat out to a collegue but I don't have the response from him yet.
I also read something about the pdf being saved in one of the ISO formats that prohibits the file from being changed in any way. This doesn't appear to be the case either since my settings state that pdf's created are "regular".
I don't have a clue why this is not working and I would think that Adobe would be on top of this since the ability to share and review documents was one of the primary selling features. I'm sure I am not the only one who thinks this way.

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Our company's standard desktop PCs run Acrobat 9.3.4 , Windows XP SPII (still), and IE 8.0
I have 2 PDF files, with the same Reader Extensions applied to both (commenting). The source of the PDF files was from Autocad (plant drawings). They are produced in exactly the same fashion , and in fact were generated within minutes of each other using an automated process.
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We have a situation with a shared review where one particular reviewer has different results with respect to seeing the comment toolbar depending on which initiator has processed the review file. This explanation is lengthy, but necessary for proper understanding of the whole picture. Everyone participating in this scenario are using Windows 7.
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While using the Acrobat trial version is a temporary solution the document owner does not want to spend the money on the real version. Although we have not tested the process with other document owners, it is possible that others will experience the same trouble and the expense would be too great to get everyone Acrobat.
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I've got an issue, when trying to review and comment on a PDF in internet explorer, the commenting toolbar doesn't appear. therefore i cannot comment and review pdf's.
O.S. is Windows 7.
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the
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not cover the
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