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Nope, I've only had 7 for a month and haven't tried a server based review.
My people seem to prefer hard copy to electronic commenting by about 4
to 1, then meeting to go over comments and resolve differences. Of
course, I could be skewing things by providing chocolate chip cookies
at the review meetings, but it does boost attendance.
Art
On 7/12/05, Walter Campbell <atypicaluser -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Art,
>
> Have you used that functionality much? I played with it a bit and
> found the server-based reviews to be awfully awkward: reviewers had to
> continually -- and manually -- download the latest batch of comments.
> There seemed to be no way of pushing new comments to reviewers.
>
> Perhaps the functionality has improved in version 7, or maybe I was
> missing something in earlier versions.
>
> --
> Walt Campbell
> atypicaluser (at) gmail (dot) com
>
> On 7/12/05, Art Campbell <art -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > In earlier versions, you could post the review document on either a
> > web or file server and
> > everyone's comments were visible to all others...
> >
> > Acrobat 7 Pro still shows two methods of distribution on the Comment
> > menu, email and "browser," so I think the capability is still there if
> > you have a server all the reviewers can hit.
> >
>
--
Art Campbell art -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com
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