I'm looking for some workflow advice. We're a book pulisher, and currently our copy editors work in Word to do a first-pass edit, then the ms is laid out in InDesign. The book is passed over to the author in PDF for review, and subsequent review/edit passes are done in ID.
I'd like to come up with a workflow that would allow us to incorporate review edits in Word. Right now only our designers work in ID and they're asked to do the edits, which really should be done by an editor. We've looked at rorohiko's tool, but it doesn't quite work for us…review edits typically come in as a list of page:line changes, and the plugin doesn't seem to have a way to jump to a line on a page.
I guess the root problem is that we divide the staff into two camps, and the copy and proof editors don't use ID, while the design and production editors do. That's not likely to change, though… Any thoughts on how the workflow could be smoothed out without having our copy editors learn ID?
Perry
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