Document review and collaboration

In a demanding workflow, graphic designers and editors work together using InDesign and InCopy. Edit changes and tracking of those changes are done collaboratively with great efficiency. However, not all design houses adopt InCopy as part of their publication production tools. Yet, it is always necessary to review all projects, most of the time in a very short turnaround time.

InDesign and Acrobat now provide tools for closer-than-ever collaboration, using both email-based and shared review functions. We discussed tools and methods for document reviews in Chapter 6, Using Acrobat in A Document Review Cycle. In this section, we will focus on an InDesign approach and how using PDF comments and a shared review allows many editors to add markup and comments directly to a source InDesign file.

Important note

At the time of writing, the auto-edit function is available only in an email-based review. For more information on the overall shared review...