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How to Best Collaborate with non-InDesign Users

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    • August 22, 2012 at 5:38 pm #62963
      scitty130
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      We publish technical pocket guides in a niche medical field. Each guide is about 350 pages long, and it is a mix of charts, diagrams, tables and minimal pure text.

      We are now at the point where we need to get feedback from our reviewers, most of whom are physicians and health professionals. They prefer to edit within Word, none have InDesign.

      Do you have thoughts on how to best do this? Currently my best offer is a pdf capture of each page pasted into table cells in a Word file – with right column where they can describe edits. Not optimal for sure!

      I appreciate your thoughts. Scot

    • August 22, 2012 at 5:51 pm #62964
      Gobit
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      G'day Scot

      Create a PDF then in Acrobat go File > Save As > Reader Extended PDF > Enable Commenting and Measuring.

      This lets people who have a reasonably current version of Adobe Reader add comments/mark-ups to PDFs without having to get the full blown Acrobat.

      Bonus for you is that once you get the PDFs back, you can use something like Annotations from DTP Tools to bring the comments straight into your Indesign file.

      Cheers, Gobit

    • August 23, 2012 at 2:37 am #62966
      scitty130
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      Thank you. I was having a little difficulty editing the PDF file – probably just ignorance on my side!

      However, I did stumble on the option, after saving InDesign to PDF, of being able to convert the PDF in Acrobat to a Word File. It really does an outstanding job – very impressed!

      Thank you again for your thoughts.

      It does put everything in these anchored text frames which is a pain, but I can work with that :)

      Scot

    • August 27, 2012 at 7:08 pm #62990
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
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      Thank you, this thread was a great motivator to focus on the topic during our most recent podcast, episode 179:

      https://creativepro.com/ind…..st-179.php

      Be sure to listen in to hear all the different ways we know of to help InDesign users to collaborate with non-ID users. The comments in the Show Notes also have some great ideas from our listeners.

      AM

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