On 6/23/2011 1:04 PM, C wrote:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:53, Gary Schnabl<[email protected]> wrote:
Therefore, I suggest that every OOo/LO PDF file be so converted by
Adobe Acrobat Professional afterward, prior to release so that
OOo/LO users will have that extra functionality.
What purpose do you want this functionality for?
...
It seems foolish not to so enable them for the Comment and Review
function, considering its ease to do so with no added cost or real
time and effort...
But for what purpose?
Nino
DUH! For any users wanting to add any highlighting and such--a thing
typically done by millions of students and others over the past few decades
on their printed material and books by (usually yellow-colored) magic
markers. That highlighting functionality can also be done now electronically
on PDFs (as it is commonly done on such converted PDFs) and even carried
over to printed hard copy, if users so desire to print them out afterward.
In addition to highlighting, editorial comments and the like by users could
also be added directly to the PDF documents, among other capabilities.
The big hole in that idea is that Adobe Acrobat Professional is a
Windows/MAC-only application that costs $449 US per license. That
leaves out those of us who use Linux... and the team members that
cannot afford that rather high license cost.
It may be a nice-to-have feature, but due to cost and OS restrictions,
it will probably remain a nice-to-have.
C.
It costs the users absolutely NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING, as long as any
version of Adobe Reader that was released within the past several years
is used for reading the Acrobat-enabled PDFs.
All that is required is just ONE LO PERSON with Adobe Acrobat
Professional to convert any PDF, a task that takes merely a few seconds
per PDF. BTW, this Adobe functionality is not really new, as it has been
around for a number of years already.
Public mention could be made that the PDFs were so enabled so that
anybody desiring to mark them up could readily do so. Most of my clients
readily use converted PDFs for their copyediting accepting/rejecting
sessions--to the point that most prefer using edit tracking on PDFs
instead of using the source DOC documents, once they became aware of
that functionality.
Gary
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