How to initiate a browser-based review?

After setting up your Reviewing preferences, you’re ready to upload the PDF review file and specify review participants. Keep in mind that though the PDF review file and the FDF setup file do not have to be in the same location, participants must have access to both files on a network in order to review the PDF document. Also note that you should wait until you’ve uploaded a PDF for review to make any initial comments. If you don’t, any comments you make to a PDF file prior to uploading will be embedded in the PDF document and you won’t be able to further edit them. To upload your PDF document and initiate a browser-based review, follow these steps:

1. Open the PDF review document in Acrobat and choose File➪Upload for Browser-Based Review.
2. In the Upload for Review dialog box that appears, click My Network and locate the folder in which you want to store the PDF review file. Make sure that all participants have access to this network location.
3. Click the Upload button to copy the PDF review document. When your PDF file finishes uploading, the Start Browser-Based Review dialog box appears,
4. In the Start Browser-Based Review dialog box, enter participant addresses in the To, Cc, or Bcc text boxes.
5. Edit the default text in the Subject and Message to Reviewers text boxes and click the Send button. If your default e-mail client displays an alert dialog box asking you to verify sending the e-mail, click the Send button again to send an e-mail message to participants that specifies the location of the PDF review file.

If the PDF file you want to have reviewed already exists on a server, you can initiate a browser-based review as well as invite new participants to the review cycle by first navigating to the file and opening it in your browser. The Review and Comment Tasks button appears in your browser window; from its pop-up menu, choose Invite Others to Review This Document to open the Start Browser-Based Review dialog box, where you enter participant addresses before clicking the Send button. You can also use this same command in Acrobat 6 during an e-mail-based review to invite more participants to review your PDF document.