At CreativePro Week 2020, attendees got a sneak peek at a game-changing new feature coming soon to InDesign: Share for Review.
Adobe Sr. Product Manager Abhinav Agarwal demonstrated the upcoming feature in a brief video, showing how it can be much more efficient than the traditional PDF review process. The Share for Review feature is expected to be released on June 15th. Here’s how it will work.
When you want to share an InDesign document for review, you’ll just click a Share button at the top of the screen.
Note that there are other features accessible via the Share button like Publish Online, Package, Export, and Quick Export as PDF.
When you choose Share for Review, a pop-up opens where you can name the review and click Create.
After a few seconds, a link will be be generated. This link can be shared publicly (i.e. any user with the link can participate). To make the public review more secure, you can add a password required for access.
You can also create a review that is shared by invite only, and add specific people to the list of reviewers. You can add as many reviewers as you wish and include a message with the invitation.
The people you invite will get emails with a link to join the review.
Clicking the link will open the document in the browser.
Comments can be added by placing a pin or drawing on the page and then adding an attached comment.
Back in InDesign, you can open a new Review panel, which displays comments. Clicking a comment jumps to its page.
Comments can be filtered by Reviewer, Time, and Status.
After you’ve addressed a comment, you can mark it as resolved or delete it, and add a reply.
When you’re done making changes, you can send an updated copy of the layout to reviewers for further feedback by clicking the Share button and updating the review link.
The reviewer just needs to refresh the web page to see the changes.
This is a very exciting new feature and I personally can’t wait to try it out and say adios to PDF reviews.
Thank you Abhinav (and Adobe), for the great sneak peek at CreativePro Week!
This article was last modified on October 14, 2020
This article was first published on June 3, 2020
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