Enabling a PDF for comments from FrameMaker Settings

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Scott,

 

Yes, but the question was how to automate this enabling so you don't have to do it one PDF at a time. This you can't do without an expensive server product.

 

Rick

 

From: Scott Turner [mailto:quills at airmail.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:44 PM
To: Rick Quatro
Cc: Fei Min Lorente; <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Re: Enabling a PDF for comments from FrameMaker Settings

 

Using Acrobat 8 and greater, you may enable a PDF For commenting. The person doing the commenting should have Acrobat Reader 8 or greater. 

On Jan 6, 2012, at 8:01 PM, "Rick Quatro" <rick at rickquatro.com> wrote:

Hi Fei Min,

 

As far as I can tell there is no way to automate this unless you have one of Adobe's expensive Live Cycle server products.

 

Rick

 

Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

585-659-8267

rick at frameexpert.com

http://www.frameexpert.com

 

 

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fei Min Lorente
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 7:55 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Enabling a PDF for comments from FrameMaker Settings

 

FrameMaker 7.2 on Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional, and TimeSavers 5.0.

 

We normally password-protect our PDFs produced from FrameMaker to guard against accidental or deliberate changes, but we had a customer request the ability to annotate the PDF file. Under Adobe PDF Security, I found the option for Changes Allowed: “Commenting, filling in form fields, and signing”. I thought everything was all right because I could then comment on the resultant PDFs, but I was using Acrobat.

 

I then found out that people who are using Reader cannot comment on the files unless I enable commenting in Acrobat. 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.

 

If the answer is no, then will I have any better luck with FrameMaker 10 and Adobe Acrobat X on Windows 7? We’re supposed to upgrade this year.

 

Fei Min

 

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