Re: Acrobat as a review tool -- lacking in at least one area?

[Marcus Carr <mrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

framers-digest wrote:

> Imagine our surprise to find out that you can't print an annotated .pdf file
> so that the notes' text is visible. The best you can do is to print the .pdf
> so that the notes show up as closed icons. Which makes it very difficult to
> use the annotations in any area but online. For instance, it's impossible to
> print a document with annotations to take to a document review meeting, or
> for someone to shove into a briefcase, or for a writer to go through a
> document cutting in edits and marking them off as "done" on a hard copy. Or
> for a customer who receives final form PDFs to cut in and use their own
> "local" annotations in print.

None of this is hard - just print the document with the annotations ticked so that
the icon is generated and then print the summary of the annotations. You may need
to keep track of them as you go through or hand-number the annotations, but that's
probably not that big a deal.

> This is, IMHO, either a serious bug in the design and implementation of this
> version of Acrobat or the result of some really brain-dead thinking somewhere
> down the line.  Acrobat phone support personnel were surprised that you
> couldn't do this; it took them an interesting amount of time and testing to
> verify that the product was unable to print the annotations in place.

I think that's a bit over the top - are you going to blame the makers of paper
post-it notes because when you stick them on the screen, they don't move when you
scroll? It's an online annotation system that can be used imperfectly for paper. If
you favour using paper post-it notes, feel free to do so.

> That said, the tool and procedure are working very nicely. Except for this
> huge, glaring inability for the company that invented PostScript to manage
> what's a relatively small printing problem.

Give me a break - you call adding an unknown amount of text to an already composed
page a small problem? Have you ever tried it?


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Marcus Carr                      email:  mrc@allette.com.au
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