Any ideas

[Combs, Richard]

Kevin Rusnak wrote: 
 
> Currently, I am in charge of manuals that are written by 
> several different people. The process of editing these 
> manuals is that the FrameMaker books and files are created in 
> the PDF. The person then makes their edits that they want 
> made through Comments in the PDF. This PDF is then given to 
> me and I make the changes in FrameMaker as need be. 

I'm confused -- are you talking about _authoring_ or about _SME
review/feedback_? (I assume you don't mean the books are "created in the
PDF," but "converted to PDF.") 

IMHO, authoring -- writing any significant amount of new content -- in a
PDF, even as comments, is insane, and I find it difficult to believe
such a workflow could be effectively used. But commenting in PDFs is a
fine way for SMEs to provide feedback to the author (tech writer). 

OTOH, letting various and sundry reviewers/SMEs muck around in the FM
source files is also insane. :-) 

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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