Enabling a PDF for comments from FrameMaker Settings

[Dov Isaacs]

No, but sorry, this cannot be accomplished via PDFMark or any other PostScript code!

                - Dov

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Baruch Brodersen
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:04 PM
To: Rick Quatro
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com; Fei Min Lorente
Subject: Re: Enabling a PDF for comments from FrameMaker Settings

It seems to me that it ought to be possible to accomplish this with either parfmark or postscript code within a postscript textbox.

Baruch Brodersen

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Rick Quatro <rick at rickquatro.com<mailto:rick at rickquatro.com>> wrote:
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<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<mailto: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<mailto: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
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [mailto: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<mailto: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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