Thanks everyone for the help and replies. Much appreciated. TVB
Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Health Language, Inc. Office: +1 (303) 307-4400 x254 www.healthlanguage.com -----Original Message----- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:30 PM To: Tammy Van Boening; Framers at FrameUsers.com Subject: RE: PDF contradiction? Tammy Van Boening wrote: > ... According to all the hulla-bulloo about this 8.0 > release, I can enable commenting rights in a PDF so that my > Adobe Reader users can participate in shared reviews of the > PDF. So, I followed the instructions to the "T" provided in > the Adobe Acrobat Online Help and this is the problem: > > > > 1.) Create the PDF. > > 2.) In the open PDF, choose Comments > Enable For Commenting in > Adobe Reader and save the PDF. > > 3.) Start the wizard to initiate the shared review. Step 4 in this > wizard is to select the PDF that is to be reviewed (natch!), > so I select the PDF that I saved in Step 2, but here's the rub: DISCLAIMER: I'm using Acro 7; undoubtedly, Adobe has made random changes to what it calls things and the details of how they work. That said, I think you're doing two things that are similar, but not the same, and you should be doing one or the other, but not both. It's understandable; the help explains them poorly (at least in 7). If you're going to email the PDF to someone and want their comments back, all you need to do is step 2 above. A Save As dialog prompts you to save a copy of the PDF (you can overwrite the original if you insist). Send that copy, which has the "special features" enabled to allow commenting in Reader. *Don't do step 3 (the wizard). I've done this many times, and never used the wizard. You need one of the wizards (under Comments > Send for Review) _only_ if you want to see multiple people's comments merged into one document. In that case, *don't* select Comments > Enable For Commenting first; just go straight to the wizard. HTH! Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------ NOTICE BY HEALTH LANGUAGE, INC. This message, as well as any attached document, contains information from Health Language, Inc. that is confidential. The information is intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please delete all electronic copies of this message and its attachments, if any, destroy any hard copies you may have created, without disclosing the contents, and notify the sender immediately. Unless expressly stated otherwise, nothing contained in this message should be construed as a digital or electronic signature, nor is it intended to reflect an intention to make an agreement by electronic means.
