On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:51:45 -0500, "Robert Dailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, > >I'm fairly new to Open Office Writer, so bare with me. I'm hoping this is >just a situation where I do not know the correct terminology. > >I remember in Microsoft Word there was a way to leave "notes" that pointed >to specific lines of text in a document so you can leave comments. One >specific thing I need to do is review a document someone has given me and >without actually changing the content, simply label things and say "Change >this" or "This needs to say that...". This way when they read the document >that I've added notes in, they will see those suggestions and be able to >edit the changes in themselves. > >Any suggestions on how to easily do this? This does not answer your question directly - does OOo have an annotator -- but it may be relevant to your needs. I work in small group of dispersed sofware developers and writers. We exchange documents as PDF's, OOo can readily create a PDF, from any component - writer, calc, draw etc. We then use Tracker Software's PDFView to annotate the PDF with sticky notes and the like. I think Adobe have an annotator, but I believe the PDF has to created with Adobe PDF creation tools in order to use it.. One of us, not me, annotates in hand writing using a tablet. We prefer to annotate PDF's rather than the original document, whether it be Word or OOo, because of the version management problems inherent in editing the original form. Also annotating a PDF is "universal", i.e. the document can come a design tool such as Visio or BOOUML or even your browser if you have a PDF printer installed, e.g. PDF Creator. Also has the advantage that the editor does not need the same tools as the writer. PDFViewer is freeware, there's a pro version now not sure what features it offers. I don't think PDFViewer is unique - i.e. there are other and possibly better tools that do a similar job. We all have large hi res and/or dual screens so we can readily look at the real document and the annotated one simultaneously. Have you looked in the OOo add ons, Writer's Tools may have something - which reminds me I have to get my instance working again. cheers phild --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
