Has anyone reviewed or edited using PDF marked up by Acrobat tools?

[Jean Hollis Weber <jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com>]

Has anyone reviewed or edited documents using PDF marked up in Adobe 
Acrobat, as an electronic equivalent of marking printouts by hand?

Typical scenarios might be (1) the client is on the other side of the 
world, so sending piles of paper by mail (or even faxing them) isn't 
practical; (2) the reviewer or editor doesn't have the same software the 
client is using, especially if many engineering diagrams or other graphics 
are involved, so the reviewer is looking at more than text; (3) the editor 
is doing final copy proofreading of material to be printed.

I've got plenty of instructional material on how to use the tools Acrobat 
provides (comments and text/graphics markup), and some experience using 
those tools. I have found them useful for some purposes (such as 
substantive comments) and tedious for minor copyediting like marking 
punctuation errors.

I suspect that an experienced user would have lots of useful tips on faster 
or easier methods. I also suspect that some ways of integrating this type 
of electronic markup into the normal workflow of a department are more 
useful than others.

So... I'm asking for you to share any tips and experiences, from a working 
technical communicator's point of view. Pointers to specific sources of 
relevant information would also be helpful -- the more specific and 
relevant the better, of course. Searching PDFzone, for example, doesn't 
usually yield relevant answers to the sorts of questions I have.

Please send a copy of any response directly to me as well as the list. 
Thank you!

Regards, Jean
Jean Hollis Weber
jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com
The Technical Editors' Eyrie  http://www.jeanweber.com/


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