Export Comments in Altium

Altium makes it easy to export the whole comment history as a PDF file for historical, legal, or auditing purposes.

You can export comment history from Altium Designer and from the web interface.

From within a schematic in Altium Designer, select Reports > Export Comments from the Top Menu. A dialog box called Comment Export Configuration will open. Click on Export and save the PDF file.

Fig. 1 - Comment Export Configuration Dialog Box — **Fig. 1** - Comment Export Configuration Dialog Box

You can also define an Output Job to combine a new report each time you perform a Release. In the left side panel, select Settings > Output Files > Assembly.OutJob. Output Job files will appear in the Projects panel under the Settings\Output Job Files sub-folder when added to a project.

Fig. 2 - Preparing Output in an OutputJob — **Fig. 2 -** Preparing Output in an OutputJob

In order to add a new report output, select: Add New Report Output > Export Comments > Select the document from where you want to export the comments.

Fig. 3 - Exporting Comments — **Fig. 3** - Exporting Comments

Go to Project > Project Releaser > Prepare & Release. If the project has modifications, an option to “Save and Commit Changes” will appear. Select Commit and Push, then Confirm Release. The PDF is now saved in your preferred location.

Fig. 4 - Project Releaser — **Fig. 4** - Project Releaser

Fig. 5 - Prepare & Release — **Fig. 5** - Prepare & Release

Comments are compiled and exported to a PDF file. As a result, you will see the list of comments when you open the PDF file, as well as the design snapshots if you selected them.

Entire design snapshots: it takes the entire design snapshot followed by the list of comments. This option exports the comments and snapshot on separate pages of the PDF:

Fig 6 - Entire design snapshots — **Fig. 6** - Entire design screenshots

Original design screenshots: It takes a screenshot for each comment attached to a specific pinned location or region in the design and you can see how the design looked when the comment was made.