Enabling a PDF for comments from FrameMaker Settings

[Fei Min Lorente]

Thanks Shlomo and Rick for the replies. We'll probably recommend that
our customer use Reader X; we don't want to spend a lot of money just
for one customer.

I forgot to mention that we tested the files using Reader 9, our company
standard, so that's why I didn't know about commenting in version X.

Fei Min

-----Original Message-----
From: Shlomo Perets [mailto:shlomo2 at microtype.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 1:21 AM
To: Fei Min Lorente
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com; frame2acrobat at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Enabling a PDF for comments from FrameMaker Settings


Fei Min,

You wrote:

>... I then found out that people who are using Reader cannot comment on

>the files unless I enable commenting in Acrobat.

With the free *Adobe Reader X*, end users can use two commenting tools 
(sticky notes and highlight text), independently of how the PDF was 
created, as long as the PDF does not have security settings that prevent

commenting -- see
http://acrobat.solutions.adobe.com/content/areaderx_ipm1_en

>  Is there a way to enable commenting using any of the above tools that
I 
> told you that I have, before the PDF is generated? We have an
automated 
> output system, so I must be able to configure the settings in one of
them 
> without opening the PDF file after it s been generated. ...

Enabling PDFs for full commenting in an automated is possible with Adobe

LiveCycle Reader Extensions (costly; you will not be able to find a
price 
in Adobe's web site)


Shlomo Perets

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