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Shlomo Perets suggested: <<with Acrobat Professional 7, you can enable
PDFs for commenting in the free Acrobat Reader 7.0. If you would like
to see how this works, a sample FM document converted to PDF and
enabled for commenting in Reader is available at
http://www.microtype.com/resources/CommentEnabled.pdf (78K)>>
This is great for light commenting, but entirely useless for true
editing. For example, the kind of substantive editing I do for a living
results in changes in almost every line of text, with extensive
rearrangement of sentences, and PDF is completely unsuited for this
approach: you can't automatically bring the edits back into the creator
application, and must copy them manually. This risks errors, omissions,
and other mistakes, and takes far too long to be an effective solution.
I know you're a Frame expert (in addition to your well-known PDF
expertise): Can you provide any thoughts on how to edit in Frame
similar to Word's revision tracking? I don't use Frame myself, but I
know this is a major topic of interest to Frame users. Exporting to RTF
and editing in Word works fine if you haven't yet begun any layout in
Frame, but it's not as efficient as working directly in Frame.
Based on my relatively primitive knowledge of Frame, the closest I can
come to a workable solution is to use character styles called
"addition" and "deletion" to tag text, then search for these styles
when it's time to review the edits. But that's still awfully
labor-intensive and kludgy. Thanks for any thoughts you can provide on
effective alternatives!
--Geoff Hart ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)
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