Kevin Rusnak wrote: > Currently, I am in charge of manuals that are written by > several different people. The process of editing these > manuals is that the FrameMaker books and files are created in > the PDF. The person then makes their edits that they want > made through Comments in the PDF. This PDF is then given to > me and I make the changes in FrameMaker as need be.
I'm confused -- are you talking about _authoring_ or about _SME review/feedback_? (I assume you don't mean the books are "created in the PDF," but "converted to PDF.") IMHO, authoring -- writing any significant amount of new content -- in a PDF, even as comments, is insane, and I find it difficult to believe such a workflow could be effectively used. But commenting in PDFs is a fine way for SMEs to provide feedback to the author (tech writer). OTOH, letting various and sundry reviewers/SMEs muck around in the FM source files is also insane. :-) Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------
