Adobe Acrobat 8 3D - Manual (Page 160)

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User Guide
Create drawing markups
You can add lines, arrows, and shapes to a PDF by using the drawing markup tools.
1 Choose Tools > Comment & Markup, and choose the desired tool.
2 Draw in the PDF. For example, click and drag to form a line, arrow, or rectangle.
3 (Optional) Using the Select tool, double-click the markup, and then type a comment in the pop-up note.
To change properties, such as line color and width, right-click/Control-click the markup and choose Properties.
See also
“Add a line, arrow, or shape” on page 177
Preparing for a PDF review
Choosing a review type
While you can send out a PDF for review through email, it’s easier to set up a managed review using a wizard. That
way you don’t have to do the work of importing comments, enabling commenting for Adobe Reader users, or
manually tracking reviewer responses.
Note: Acrobat Professional is required to enable commenting for Adobe Reader users in shared reviews and email-based
reviews.
Acrobat includes three types of managed reviews. Each type of review has a wizard that helps you distribute a PDF
with special tools and instructions to reviewers. The Review Tracker tracks all managed reviews and provides access
to the PDF file and to information about the review and its participants.
Shared reviews and email-based reviews are the best choices for most document reviews. To initiate any managed
review, you need a supported email application and a mail server connection. (No additional server software is
required for shared or browser-based reviews.) In addition to managed reviews, Acrobat offers a meeting option that
lets you share your desktop with others to collaborate on documents. (See “Start a meeting” on page 160.)
Shared reviews
Shared reviews are best for groups that work behind a firewall and have access to a remote server. Shared reviews are
the most collaborative form of review because participants can read and reply to each other’s comments whether they
review the PDF locally, as an email attachment, or on a remote server. Reviewers outside the firewall can also partic­
ipate by sending their comments to a reviewer within the firewall, who then publishes them to the shared PDF.
Of all the managed reviews, shared reviews provide the most detailed information about the active review. A notifi­
cation feature lets you know when new comments are available, even when Acrobat is closed, and you’re informed
of all recent review activity each time you open the PDF. Published comments are saved to the server and to the local
hard drive, and Acrobat synchronizes comments between these two locations at regular intervals to download all the
latest comments and changes.
Note: To view other reviewers’ comments in a shared review, you must use Acrobat 8 or Adobe Reader 8. Reviewers using
Acrobat 6.0 or 7.0 must send their comments in email. Shared reviews do not support commenting in Acrobat 3D files.