Not personally - I've just used the review feature to get comments - never tried merging them back in.
I recall lots of posts on the Adobe FM forum about failure to merge comments back in. An Adobe employee piped up and said that to make it work, you can't make any changes after generating the review PDF if you want to merge them back in. I can see how it would be tough for FM to figure out where a comment fits back in if the originating section got moved around or deleted after the review PDF was created. Maybe this has been improved since it seems an obvious flaw in people's workflow. ________________________________ From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Sullivan Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:38 PM To: Lief Erickson Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Collaborate with PDF-based roundtrip reviews? I dunno...there are lots of scary messages about the document changing, but I've had total success in saving the docs first, then importing and merging the comments. Even if it fails, it's worth a few minutes of experimenting, as this feature has saved me *many* hours of tedious updating. Jeff, have you had different results? -Matt On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Lief Erickson <lief at networkinstruments.com<mailto:lief at networkinstruments.com>> wrote: +1 ...and where I work, that never happens, so it means that I have to manually merge the comments. -Lief From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Jeff Coatsworth Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 2:12 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com> Subject: RE: Collaborate with PDF-based roundtrip reviews? The one proviso is that the originating FM doc can't change in any way after the review PDF is created if you hope to merge comments back into it later. ________________________________ From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Sullivan Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:04 PM To: Deanna Korth Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: Collaborate with PDF-based roundtrip reviews? Hi Deanna First, they released Acrobat XI today or yesterday, so you'll likely be doing your work with XI instead of X. Next, you'll need Acrobat Pro on the machine producing the PDF, and from there you can initiate reviews with your team using anything from Reader (9 or above) to Acrobat Pro (9 or above). If I recall correctly, this has been true since Acrobat 5 or so. I have successfully run reviews with this setup and then migrated comments back into the FM document (FM 10 and 11) with the supplied workflow, which is a fraction of the effort required to manually apply changes to the original FM document. -Matt @mattrsullivan On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Deanna Korth <deanna.korth at gmail.com<mailto:deanna.korth at gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, We are migrating from FrameMaker 7.2 to FrameMaker 11. In our current workflow, we create a PDF file and use Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional to enable commenting in it so that reviewers who don't have FrameMaker can electronically review and comment on our FrameMaker documents. We then merge the electronic comments into the PDF file and manually change the FrameMaker files accordingly. For FrameMaker 11, Adobe advertises, "Collaborate with PDF-based roundtrip reviews." I've searched, but I can't find how these types of reviews are implemented. Can you briefly explain how this feature works? Mainly I want to know if we need to purchase Adobe Acrobat Professional X to retain our ability to solicit electronic reviews from reviewers who don't have FrameMaker or if the need for Acrobat Professional is eliminated by this feature in FrameMaker 11. Thanks, Deanna. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as matt at mattrsullivan.com<mailto:matt at mattrsullivan.com>. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com> or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/matt%40mattrsullivan.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com<mailto:listadmin at frameusers.com>. 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