RE: Workflow

[<Michael.Long@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I'm curious if anybody else has their reviewers directly edit frame
documents, or how people are doing reviews.

We also use the Mif2Go>Word method to turn copies around to SMEs, who
are content authors. Of course, some content needs more post-authoring
attention than other content. But I've wondered why Adobe or some other
company hasn't come up with a FrameMaker Lite for this type of process.
Any rumors of that out there?

Acrobat and FinalDraft seem not yet to offer the authoring capability
that we would like for our current workflow. 

Mike 

Mike Long
Team Leader, User Documentation
Medstat
http://www.medstat.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stevens, Ananda 
> (GE Healthcare)
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 1:00 PM
> To: Daniel Emory
> Cc: Free Framers List
> Subject: RE: Workflow
> 
> Dan, what version of Acrobat are you looking at?  
> 
> ===============================================
> Gee, why couldn't it be a  saved version (under a different 
> name) of the version you're responsible for.
> If that review copy version gets butchered, it has no effect 
> on the original version. Comparing the two versions provides 
> an easy way to identify all reviewer comments. 
> ===============================================
> Been there, done that with Frame 5.5.x and ClearCase as 
> source/version control. We had a couple of engineers who 0had 
> some familiarity with Frame. Frame's "compare documents" 
> feature left something to be desired.
> I don't think it has changed significantly since then. We 
> tried this once and reverted to a paper workflow. 
> 
> > How, for example, can a reviewer clearly indicate in a PDF 
> copy that a
> paragraph, phrase or sentence should be moved, Here's what I've done: 
> Use the highlight tool to indicate the text to be moved. Add 
> a note or two indicating where the item should be moved to 
> (one note at the origin, one note at the destination). 
> 
> > or clearly indicate that something inside a graphic needs to be
> changed or moved?
> The current version has graphics tools for annotation: arrow, 
> rectangle, oval, line, polyline, dimensioning, cloud, and 
> callout. I think the callout plus some combo of the others 
> would do the job.
> 
> > Forcing reviewers to use Acrobar severely limits their ability to
> pinpoint individual words or phrases,
> I've used the tools on individual letters in some cases. 
> 
> > the limited markup capabilities of Acrobat. 
> I'm curious -- what other markup capabilities are you looking for??
> 
> Thanks,
> Ananda
> 
> K. Ananda Stevens
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