Acrobat 8 Professional Has a few flavors of review types, so before enabling your document for review, you'll want to review the reviews:
Mutual reviews are the highest quality-rich and are designed for reviewers working behind firewalls who let access to a remote file server. Reviewers outside the firewall can review documents using their email and return comments to those within the firewall, who then publish the comments to the shared PDF. Mutual reviews again have an advertisement feature, letting reviewers know when up-to-date comments are accessible regardless of whether Acrobat is open. Acrobat 8 or Adobe Reader 8 is necessary to view other reviewers' comments in a shared review.
Email-based reviews are for those who don't need access to a remote server and who don't require real-time review cooperation. In this situation, a member of the group initiates the review by sending the PDF as a file attachment. Reviewers are invited to participate in the review and add comments and markup to the document. Those comments are then returned to the initiator with the PDF. Reviewers accepting Acrobat Professional also have the advantage to export only their comments and deliver them using the Form Data Format (FDF). Once the initiator receives the comments, the comments can be merged back into the master document. TO participate in an email-based review, Acrobat 6.o or newer and Adobe Reader 7.0 or newer is required in addition to a Web dav-enabled server to host the review.
Browser-based reviews are similar to shared reviews in that people have entrance to a shared server. The PDF document is uploaded to the server, and the reviewers are invited to be a participant via email. When the proposal is clicked, a setup file that's enclosed in the email opens the PDF in the reviewer's browser. Comments are then shipped back via the browser and stored on the shared file server. The disadvantages of browser-based reviews are that they allow no mechanism for tracking changes and users of Adobe Reader can't participate.
Acrobat connect meetings are a separate way to guide an interactive review practicing any Web browser. the initiator needs an Acrobat Connect account and then asks reviewers by email and an included link to participate in a virtual meeting.
Initiating an Email-Based Review
Of the four kinds of reviews listed earlier, an email-based review makes the most sense for your newsletter. This type of review will let you print the status of the review and converge comments into the PDF. During the method of initiating an email review, you'll want to allow commenting in Adobe Reader 7.0 or newer. While commenting is enabled in Reader, the document adds a message bar, instructions on how to add comments, and various commenting tools that otherwise don't exist.
1. From the Acrobat 8 task bar, click the Review And Comment button and select Attach For Email Review, or choose the same command from the Comments menu.
2. Fill out the Identity Setup dialog, and click Complete when done.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions, being sure to click the Customise Review Options button in the Review Options dialog to allow Reader 7.0 users to comment.
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