Re: Acrobat Reader and "post-it" notes

[Max Wyss <prodok -at- prodok -dot- ch>]

Gilda,

No.





That was the short answer. A bit more verbose: When you create 
annotations (in fact, there are quite a few different styles 
available, which make Acrobat to an excellent collaboration tool), 
you will have to save the document in order to keep the annotations. 
Now, Reader can read PDF documents. If it could save documents, it 
would be called Saver, wouldn't it?

In order to be able to modify and save a PDF document, you will in 
any case need a full version of the Viewer component of Acrobat. This 
can be either the full version (something around USD 220), or the 
Acrobat Business Tools (single licences for USD 79; volume licences 
are available at good prices).

So, what you have to do, is to provide at least the Business Tools to 
your system administrators. Well, it might be even better, you 
provide the Business Tools to everyone in your organization; you can 
set up pretty elegant workflows, and when eventually digital 
signatures become an issue, you will need it anyway.

Hope, this can help.


Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering
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CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland

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We use Acrobat to create all our manuals in pdf format. For most of the
books, we want users to be able to read and print, but not to make any
changes. But for one book, we want the System Administrator to be able to
make annotations and then send the annotated version to other users.

I know there's an annotation feature in Acrobat. You can use it, for
example, to add a notation that looks like an electronic post-it note. I
can see how to do this in regular Acrobat, but not in Acrobat Reader. But
our System Administrators have only Acrobat Reader, but not regular
Acrobat. Is there some way to add annotations in Acrobat Reader?