Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Sending Out PDF Files for Review in Windows


Acrobat is known for its arsenal of useful annotating tools, and Adobe continues to improve those tools, as you discover in later sections of this chapter. What makes Acrobat 6 such a worthwhile upgrade is the addition of e-mail based and browser-based reviewing. These new reviewing features, available to users of Acrobat 6 for Windows, streamline the initiation of a review cycle by allowing you to distribute a PDF review document either by e-mail or by posting the PDF file on a network (intranet or Internet) server and allowing participants to review it in a Web browser.
Here’s how a typical Acrobat PDF review cycle works — the initiator of a review distributes a PDF document to reviewers, known as participants, who then use the Acrobat commenting tools to annotate the document for the edification of the review initiator. The initiator then reviews the reviews of the reviewers (sounds fun, right?). Acrobat enables you to set up either e-mail-based or browser-based reviews. When deciding which type of review to use, note that with e-mail-based reviews, participants don’t need access to a shared server; with browser-based reviews, participants can see each others’ comments on an ongoing basis.