Collaborate with PDF-based roundtrip reviews?

[Megha Chaitanya]

Acrobat Reader XI supports full set of commeting tools. So, if the reviewers have Acrobat Reader XI, you don't need Acrobat professional point product nor TCS to enable commeting in PDF.

If reviewers are using Acrobat Reader X or less, you need either Acrobat Professional point product or TCS to enable commenting in PDF.

If you have FrameMaker point product and Acrobat 11 Reader :

1. Generate PDF for review using File->Save as PDF option. Make sure to  turn ON "Generate PDF for review" option in PDF setup dialog.
2. Ask reviewers to give comments using Acrobat Reader XI.
3. Import the comments in FrameMaker document using File->Import->PDF Comments.


If you have FrameMaker point product and Acrobat Professional point product :

1. Generate PDF for review using File->Save as PDF option. Make sure to  turn ON "Generate PDF for review" option in PDF setup dialog.
2. Open PDF in Acrobat Professional point product and save as ubiquitous PDF.
3. Ask reviewers to give comments on PDF generated in step 2 using Acrobat Reader.
4. Import the comments in FrameMaker document using File->Import->PDF Comments.

If you have TCS :
1. Directly from FrameMaker interface, you can generate ubiquitous PDF to enable commenting in PDF, or share PDF on acrobat.com to enable shared review.
2. Ask reviewers to give comments on PDF generated in step 2 using Acrobat Reader.
3. Import the comments in FrameMaker document using File->Import->PDF Comments.

Regards,
Megha Chaitanya
Adobe FrameMaker 

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Coatsworth
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 6:17 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Collaborate with PDF-based roundtrip reviews?

Of course not - they want you to buy the suite; what incentive would there be if you got all the features with the point products?

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net)
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 1:04 AM
To: Combs, Richard; Harpreet Singh Seehra; Robert Lauriston; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Collaborate with PDF-based roundtrip reviews?

Interesting ... thanks for the response, Richard!

And I don't know about all of you all, but I strongly, *strongly* want any such "special plumbing" to be functional in the standalone purchased versions of FrameMaker and Acrobat Pro. (I simply don't want to get onto the much more costly TCS purchase/upgrade path - I do *not* need the other tools in that product and do not want to pay for them - I have enough trouble justifying my FrameMaker purchases now that the upgrade prices have gone up so much in the past few years.)

I *do* want the integration between FrameMaker and Acrobat Pro to be as good/perfect as possible. That is why I continue to justify, buy and upgrade the [expensive] Adobe Acrobat Pro product rather than just live with one of the many inexpensive "PDF printer" solutions that are available - heck, as I recall, one such PDF printer is included in my "PDF Convertor Pro" software (which I currently only use to convert from PDF to Word and Excel files).

Since I always have to perform some common manual actions every time I generate a PDF (since not everything "comes across" from FrameMaker), if the integration could be better, then that is important to me!

Harpreet, can you please provide me with Adobe's response and position here? What are the exact differences and why are they not in the stand-alone versions? Can Adobe release an update (perhaps a "connector" program similar to what is in TCS) for people who own FrameMaker *and* Acrobat Pro, but don't own TCS? Shouldn't this standard in the Acrobat Pro package for it to install this integration if a copy of FrameMaker is also installed on the system?

Thanks,

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.combs at Polycom.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:16 PM
To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net); Harpreet Singh Seehra; Robert Lauriston; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Collaborate with PDF-based roundtrip reviews?

Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote:
 
> Aren't the features/capabilities of FrameMaker and Acrobat Pro as 
> stand-alone products not *exactly* the same as they are in TCS? Isn't 
> TCS simply a packaged-cost bundle of some Adobe products (that 
> includes FrameMaker and Acrobat - assuming that the versions are the same)?

I can't say regarding Acrobat, but for FM that hasn't been the case for any version of TCS. The TCS versions of FM and RoboHelp have "special plumbing" to make FM-RH integration work. I suspect that similar "special plumbing" has now been added to Acrobat to make the FM-Acro integration work. 

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-903-6372
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