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I have received a PDF document where I have made some corrections using the Text edit tool.
However, I have now been asked to accept these changes and incorporate them into the document. How do I do this? I cannot even seem to find anywhere where I can even get an overview of what these changes would look like (before changes are accepted). Searching through the help and communitiy files have left me non the wiser...
Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Being a page description language, PDF does not lend itself to the layout/format/content editing one is familiar with in word processing applications such as MS Word. Consequently, features for preview-acceptance of proposed content changes (such as available in a word processor) are not available.
The authoring file that was the source of your PDF needs to be re-visited and the edits/changes incorporated in it.
About PDF comments/markups -
The idea is to use an Acrobat annotation, such as the Text Edits tool, to provide an indication of something to be added, replaced, removed, etc.
With the annotation field in place others can indicate the migration or review status of the proposed change via the annotation's context menu (select annotation to set focus & right click) or via the Options menu on the annotation's pop-up dialog.All annotations may be viewed via the Comments List. The list can be sorted and filtered. It is possible to hide/show specific annotations or groups of annotations. Various types of comment summary reports can be generated.
Utlimately, the annotated PDF goes back to the content author. This individual reviews the comments and incorporates the requisite changes into the author file. With that done a new PDF is produced. This PDF can be sent out for a V&V if desired.
Once a "final" PDF is in place it can be distributed.
Worth mentioning is that In Adobe's Technical Communication Suite v1 & 2 one can author in FrameMaker, output a PDF for review/comments, then bring changes back into the FrameMaker authoring file with little to no layout/format clean up. I believe the same is available via just FM8-AAp8 or FM9-AAp9.Another technique is to save as/export the PDF content to MS Word.
Then, complete the work up in Word.
[b]If[/b] the PDF was a tagged output PDF, with a well formed structure tree, then there will not be too much layout/formate clean up required.
If the PDF is untagged, has minimal/poor tagging then clean up of layout/format becomes a non-trivial task.
Once the MS Word file has requisite editing completed a new output PDF can be provided.
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