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Subject:Collaborative Documentation Review Process From:Missy Smith <techpubsmistress -at- live -dot- com> To:ASK TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:37:07 -0600
What software and process do you use for collaborative documentation review?
Currently we are looking into using SharePoint as a repository for documents set for review. We would publish a .pdf of the document and use Adobe Acrobat Pro for comments and markup.
One of our reviewers commented that Acrobat "sticky notes" can be difficult to use when a reviewer wants to submit large amounts of data for inclusion in a document. Some formatting can be difficult to convey also. This reviewer also commented on how they liked Word commenting because you could get a fnal copy view that is much easier to read than Acrobat's comments list and markup symbols.
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