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

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

1. If you are entering the changes and want to bring it to the proofer's
attention, I recommend embedding the your comments as HyperText markers that
convert to Acrobat notes when distilling. This is only worthwhile if you do
it often or already own a third party utility called TimeSavers (from
www.microtype.com) for other reasons. The advantage is that you are still
doing all of the editing on your source file. Once the change is approved,
you simply remove the marker or distill without TimeSavers. The printer
actually can print with the note in the file because the note does not print
with the file by default. If you want more details, you can contact me
offline.

-Svi Ben-Elya-
svi -at- ieee -dot- org

Jean Hollis Weber wrote:" <jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com>


> Yes, I truly meant "proofing", the stage where you check that the final
> page breaks are okay and the footers haven't become garbled, and no
> cross-reference errors have crept in, and that sort of stuff -- because
the
> PDF itself is what's going to the repro shop for printing or is itself
> being distributed as the deliverable. I often do that sort of proofing on
> material I have previously edited properly.


2. If you are doing this from your office or notebook computer I would still
recommend correcting the source file and redistilling because you may want
to reuse the file for a future version.

If you (or the editor) are doing this while at the printer and the person
you are sending the marked up copy to has the full version of Acrobat, there
is a nice feature that you can use to reduce the size of the file that you
send back and forth.

You can export the comments (a small text file) and the person on the other
end can easily import them from within Acrobat. This is also a nice way of
keeping a record of changes made without storing large files.

-Svi Ben-Elya-
svi -at- ieee -dot- org


Jean Hollis Weber wrote:" <jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com>


> In my original note I failed to mention one other scenario: the editor
> makes a few last-minute changes _to the PDF itself_ instead of sending the
> edits back to the writer to incorporate them and regenerate the PDF. I
> often do those last-minute changes myself, because I mostly deal with
> clients who aren't professional writers but rather engineers and other
> professionals, and that's one of the things they want from me.
>


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