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Security Settings with Acrobat Elements

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2008-01-25 09:37:15
grandmasteryang
Registered: Jan 25 2008
Posts: 8
Answered

Hello

According to the description provided by Adobe:

"Protect files

Apply permissions that help control whether users are allowed to view, edit, comment on, sign, or print Adobe PDF documents."

I thought that this would be perfect for my organization. We want to be able to create PDFs and allow people to comment on those PDFs. I figured it would merely be a checkbox to allow commenting.

However, I seem to be having issues With every security permutation that I've tried, Acrobat Reader will always say that commenting is not allowed in the document properties. Is there a step that I am missing? Thanks!

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2008-01-25 10:25:43
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
"Reader" says it all.

If you want Reader to do anything else, one needs to take additional steps. See the search results for "Reader comments" for more information:

http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/index.php?sort=true&searchtype=advanced&search_keyword=commenting

George Kaiser

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2008-01-25 10:40:28
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grandmasteryang
Registered: Jan 25 2008
Posts: 8
Thanks for the reply! However, when I went through both the video and tutorial links from the site that you provided, neither of them seemed to have the solution for how to do it through Adobe Acrobat Elements. The interface in Elements is quite different.
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2008-01-25 12:14:50
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
Each variation of Acrobat/Reader within a version has different capabilties. Standard and Professional can be used to start comment reviews.

Reader can not add comments to a PDF unless the end user receives a PDF document with the correct settings for the type of review, email, web based or Comments Rights Enabled.

Exchange can add comments to a PDF but can not start or enable comments.

Standard can start a comment review but can not enable rights.

Professional can do it all.

George Kaiser

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2008-01-25 13:10:25
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grandmasteryang
Registered: Jan 25 2008
Posts: 8
Hm, I think that I am getting a bit confused here.

I guess this is all I'm really looking for. Can Adobe Acrobat Elements create a PDF such that Adobe Acrobat Reader can comment on it? And if so, how?

Unfortunately, I didn't see you mention Adobe Acrobat Elements in your recent post.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/acrobatel.php

Under "Protect files", I got the impression that Adobe Acrobat Elements did have this capability, but I am having difficulty doing it.
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2008-01-25 14:22:53
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
Elements and add security to prevent comments from being added but can not add any special commenting rights for Adobe Reader. You would need either the Standard or Professional version to provide a vesion of a PDF that could be commented on by Adobe Reader.

One should note that there is Adobe Reader and Acrobat Elements, Acrobat Standard, and Acrobat Professional.

George Kaiser

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2008-01-25 15:13:19
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grandmasteryang
Registered: Jan 25 2008
Posts: 8
Oh, okay. That is the answer that I was looking for. Thank you very much. I was aware of the different versions of Acrobat, but nothing seemed to be catered toward Elements which is what I have been using. Thanks for your help
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2008-02-05 14:37:50
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grandmasteryang
Registered: Jan 25 2008
Posts: 8
Sorry to dig up an older topic, but i just purchased Acrobat Std and I don't see the option to allow commenting in Acrobat Reader under the 'Comments' menu option. Is it somewhere else? Thanks
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2008-02-26 07:17:46
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SimonATS
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Registered: Jul 26 2007
Posts: 49
grandmasteryang wrote:
Sorry to dig up an older topic, but i just purchased Acrobat Std and I don't see the option to allow commenting in Acrobat Reader under the 'Comments' menu option. Is it somewhere else? Thanks
It's in Acrobat pro. You can use standard to add comments, but only Pro can enable pdf files to be commented on in the free reader.

EMEA Acrobat Technical Support

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