RE: Workflow

["Smith, Terry" <Terry.Smith@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Disclaimer: I am biased in favor of a PDF review workflow.

Having used PDF successfully for online reviews for years, I'm wondering why this process is too tedious. Our process is to receive markups in the PDF, mark each comment as completed (or rejected!) as we incorporate them into FrameMaker, and then send the reviewer a copy to compare against. Our process right now uses Adobe Standard so we can have collaborative reviews (where everyone can see everyone else's markups). Since you are considering a process that requires that a single reviewer change the checked-out FrameMaker document, you may find that using the combination of Acrobat Professional 7 to enable reviews by folks who have only Adobe Reader 7 will meet your needs. 

This has been such a good solution for us that I really think you should give it another look. Feel free to contact me off list if you questions. 

-Terry Smith


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Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:43 AM
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Subject: Workflow


We're having a workflow brainstorming session at work and from it we came away with limited solutions. I'm curious if anybody else has their reviewers directly edit frame documents, or how people are doing reviews. We have several people which need to review documents and they are located in several locations across the globe. The current idea is to use CVS and have them checkout the Frame document, mark it up and check it back in (we would control the commit process). But, I'm not sure how well this will work with multiple reviewers looking at the same document at the same time. While PDF might still be an option, nobody is thrilled with that option since it is a very tedious process for everybody involved. 

If people have ideas, please feel free to contact me off list if you don't think this list is the right place for this discussion.

Regards,
Wayne

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