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Re: Has anyone reviewed or edited using PDF marked up by Acrobattools?
Subject:Re: Has anyone reviewed or edited using PDF marked up by Acrobattools? From:"Robert Plamondon" <robert -at- plamondon -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:46:38 -0700
It's okay for reviewers and anyone who makes mostly higher-level comments.
The mechanism of highlighting the offending passage and then filling in
comments in a sticky note is effective and reasonably clear.
For copy-editing, it's a nuisance. The results are cumbersome and unclear.
Heavy copy-editing from a remote location is best handled by traditional
paper mark-up, which can either be scanned or shipped back to whoever needs
it.
(For what it's worth, I found color JPEGs surprisingly effective for markup.
The lossy compression blurs up the original some, but manual markup is
pretty low-res stuff, and looks much the same after lossy compression. I
find that hanging onto color (red or green ink) really makes a difference if
you don't want to overlook half the markup.)
For diagrams, it's a nightmare. Stuff, especially sticky notes, don't stay
where you put them, so markup rearranges itself and becomes
incomprehensible. You can get around this by using double-distilled PDFs,
where you print the marked up PDF file to Acrobat Distiller. This nails
everything into place, but the sticky notes, etc., aren't sticky notes any
more, they're just graphic elements.
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