PDF XChange Viewer is a really easy-to-use (free) tool for commenting on 
PDFs. It's something that you do not have to teach the reviewers. It's 
self explanatory. And you do not have to "allow" users to comment on the 
PDF in order to use this tool.

-- 
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133

Dov Isaacs wrote:
> Editable PDF? Are you kidding? PDF is a final form file format. Any edits
> that you can do in PDF should be restricted to emergency situations only.
> PDF does not maintain any of the context of the original source document.
> The concepts of words, sentences, paragraphs, etc. is limited at best
> (if the document is fully tagged) and nonexistent at worst!
>
> The real problem of the OP is that the client just "doesn't get it" with
> regards to the fact that the document model of almost any two layout or
> word processing programs are usually not even close. There simply no
> 1 to 1 conversions of FrameMaker to Word or vice versa. Something is going
> to get lost in such conversions either in terms of content, functionality,
> formatting, quality, or some combination of same. This is discounting the
> issues of the inherent instability of Word with longer documents and its
> apparent inability to maintain document format from one release to another
> or even one "current printer driver instance" to the next.
>
>       - Dov
>
>
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Flato, Gillian
>> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 9:35 AM
>>
>> Why does he want it in Word? Rather than converting to Word, which will
>> be time-consuming and result in a document that has problems, find out
>> what his goal is. For example, an Engineer recently said that he wanted
>> a document in Word. When I asked him why, he said it was because he
>> wanted to edit it. He didn't know that one can make PDFs editable. Once
>> I explained that to him and showed him how to add edits to the PDF, he
>> was happy. So find out what his reasons are and you may be able to
>> address them with Frame and PDF.
>>
>>
>> -Gillian
>>     
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