Proofreading with Adobe Thread poster: Odette Grille (X)
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Odette Grille (X) 
Canada
Local time: 15:39
English to French
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Adobe reader 8 with windows XP office Word 2003
Hello,
I read a few forums about Adobe, but I need the basic understanding.
How do I proofread from a pdf in Adobe (post DTP ; I cannot save as text since the format disappears).
Can I write into the document's notes ?
Is there an Adobe write, not just read ?
Thank you
| | | | Daniel Šebesta
Czech Republic
Local time: 21:39
Member (2007)
English to Czech
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| Comment feature | Oct 19, 2007 |
Aude,
The new Adobe Reader (v. 8) also has the Comment feature. While creating a PDF file in the Adobe Acrobat (Professional), you can set to allow the Comment feature to work even with the Adobe Reader. Then, you can attach comments to the PDF file very easily. I find this feature very helpful.
HTH,
Daniel
| | | | | Writing in PDF files | Oct 19, 2007 |
Hi Aude,
If you have access to Adobe Acrobat (Professional - not just the Reader), you can edit words/sentences from there provided that the pdf file isn't password protected.
It is not the most user friendly way of editing as you can only edit a single line at a time (no word wrapping!), but it is possible. I have translated entire manuals this way
Morten
| | | | Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 21:39
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| Client must enable commenting | Oct 19, 2007 |
Aude Ace wrote:
Adobe reader 8 with windows XP office Word 2003
How do I proofread from a pdf in Adobe?
You can create annotations with Adobe Reader 8, if the client had enabled commenting when he created the PDF.
If he had disabled commenting, then you can't leave notes directly on the PDF... you're just gonna have to describe each problem in a text document.
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| Interesting links | Oct 19, 2007 |
Hi Aude,
Check out the following links. They were useful once for me.
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| | | | Odette Grille (X)
Canada
Local time: 15:39
English to French
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TOPIC STARTER | So I thought | Oct 19, 2007 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
Aude Ace wrote:
Adobe reader 8 with windows XP office Word 2003
How do I proofread from a pdf in Adobe?
You can create annotations with Adobe Reader 8, if the client had enabled commenting when he created the PDF.
Thank you Samuel. I just wanted to be sure this could be the case. Thought I might have missed a command on the document.
O.
| | | | Odette Grille (X)
Canada
Local time: 15:39
English to French
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TOPIC STARTER
Merci Letitia,
JI followed the instructions in the first link, but when I click on the sign that should be changed, the note pop-up does not pop-up, so I cannot write the correction or a commentary. I suppose this confirms that the client probably did not enable change to the doc.
Kind regards from Canada
| | | | Odette Grille (X)
Canada
Local time: 15:39
English to French
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TOPIC STARTER
Morten Rindsig wrote:
Hi Aude,
If you have access to Adobe Acrobat (Professional - not just the Reader), you can edit words/sentences from there provided that the pdf file isn't password protected.
It is not the most user friendly way of editing as you can only edit a single line at a time (no word wrapping!), but it is possible. I have translated entire manuals this way
Morten
I am going to visit the Adobe site but I suppose the prof. version is expensive and so far, I have had just this one PAGE to proofread.
It sounds as if a whole manual would be a laborious hell !
Thanks Morten
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| PDF-Xchange viewer | Oct 19, 2007 |
there is an excellent programme, really extraordinary, allows commenting, drawing, stamping, whatever you can imagine, and for free, forget Adobe Professional for proofreading.
http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/pdfx_viewer/
Piotr
| | | | Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 21:39
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Piotr Sawiec wrote:
There is an excellent programme, really extraordinary, allows commenting, drawing, stamping, whatever you can imagine, and for free...
A sloooooooooow 12 MB download and... wow!!!! It really works. And you can add stuff to the PDF that Acrobat Reader actually interpreters correctly. And you can open the PDF later and delete some of the stuff you've added with the click of a button (well, a right-click, actually).
| | | | | Impressive, isn't it | Oct 19, 2007 |
and it is my default pdf viewer now, it is much faster although consumes more memory
| | | | Odette Grille (X)
Canada
Local time: 15:39
English to French
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TOPIC STARTER
I downloaded it but have not tried it yet
Thank you Piotr
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Odette Grille (X)
Canada
Local time: 15:39
English to French
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TOPIC STARTER
Aude Ace wrote:
I downloaded it but have not tried it yet
Thank you Piotr
I have used it and really...If all software could be so smooth !
Thanks again !
| | | | Jan Sundström
Sweden
Local time: 21:39
Member (1970)
English to Swedish
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Piotr Sawiec wrote:
there is an excellent programme, really extraordinary, allows commenting...
Brilliant Piotr!
That's a huge timesaver. Now I don't have to prepare the hundreds of PDFs in Acrobat when I send them to my reviewer.
You made my day!
/Jan
| | | | g-wester
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:39
English to Norwegian
I had the problem that employers often don't enable the commenting function in the PDF document, so that Adobe Reader won't allow you to enter comments. This is perfect.
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