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

["Svi Ben Elya" <svib -at- bezeqint -dot- net>]

First of all, marking up comments in Acrobat is not as easy as using Track
Changes in Word. However it is useful.

One of the techniques that you might find useful is to export and import
notes. you can delete comments as you deal with them, export the remaining
comments, then import them into the next version of the PDF. This way you
retain comments that you have not dealt with. You can also leave the comment
in until its originator approves your changes.

I hope this helps.

-Svi Ben-Elya-




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jean Hollis Weber" <jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 10:51 PM
Subject: Has anyone reviewed or edited using PDF marked up by Acrobat tools?


>
> 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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