Re: Change Tracking in FM 7.1 for doc review?

2010-06-05 Thread Steve Johnson
Unless all of your reviewers has Frame, it doesn't make sense. Alternate suggestions: 1) PDF comments 2) Code Collaborator or a similar application that enables everyone to mark up the document (i.e., PDF) in a central location. IOW, everyone can see everyone else's comments. Code Collaborator

Re: Change Tracking in FM 7.1 for doc review?

2010-06-05 Thread David Spreadbury
If you are delivering documents as PDF, using Adobe Acrobat, then you have a tool.   Just enable commenting in your review PDFs. Your reviewers, using Acrobat Reader, can insert comments, redline, mar out, etc. You can then combine all of the comments received into one file, with the comments

RE: Change Tracking in FM 7.1 for doc review?

2010-06-05 Thread Fred Ridder
But note that you must have Adobe Acrobat Pro (or Pro Extended) to enable commenting from Adobe Reader. The Standard edition of Acrobat lacks this feature (among others). -Fred Ridder Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 09:53:32 -0700 From: dspre...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Change Tracking in FM 7.1

Re: Change Tracking in FM 7.1 for doc review?

2010-06-05 Thread David Creamer
I've been asked to provide Word-like change tracking for document review. I haven't been down this road with FM before, so I would appreciate any and all input how I can provide this type of document or something similar. InTech http://www.intech.com/ used to sell one for Frame 7. I don't

Re: Change Tracking in FM 7.1 for doc review?

2010-06-05 Thread Art Campbell
Could you clarify your question? I'm reading it two ways: Either you need to flag changes in FM since the previous rev so they stand out to reviewers. OR... you want to let people record comments in the text, for which others are recommending (correctly) to use Acrobat to track comments. Art

Change Tracking in FM 7.1 for doc review?

2010-06-05 Thread Writer
Can you get an FM upgrade? You can track changes with newer versions of FM (starting with version 8, I think). Nadine On 04/06/2010 6:36 PM, Jim Duszynski wrote: > Hello Framers, > > I've been asked to provide Word-like change tracking for document review. I > haven't been down this road with

ARE: Framemaker 9 vs Microsoft Word

2010-06-05 Thread qui...@airmail.net
I rather find the apology that Word can be made to function reliably ONLY IF one reprograms it to be begging the question. It is usually thought that one buys software that functions without the user having to fix the program they just spent a few hundred dollars on. Scott On 6/3/10 12:35 PM,

Change Tracking in FM 7.1 for doc review?

2010-06-05 Thread Steve Johnson
Unless all of your reviewers has Frame, it doesn't make sense. Alternate suggestions: 1) PDF comments 2) Code Collaborator or a similar application that enables everyone to mark up the document (i.e., PDF) in a central location. IOW, everyone can see everyone else's comments. Code Collaborator

Change Tracking in FM 7.1 for doc review?

2010-06-05 Thread David Spreadbury
If you are delivering documents as PDF, using Adobe Acrobat, then you have a tool. ? Just enable commenting in your review PDFs. Your reviewers, using Acrobat Reader, can insert comments, redline, mar out, etc. You can then combine all of the comments received into one file, with the comments

Change Tracking in FM 7.1 for doc review?

2010-06-05 Thread Fred Ridder
But note that you must have Adobe Acrobat Pro (or Pro Extended) to enable commenting from Adobe Reader. The Standard edition of Acrobat lacks this feature (among others). -Fred Ridder > Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 09:53:32 -0700 > From: dspreadb at yahoo.com > Subject: Re: Change Tracking in FM

Change Tracking in FM 7.1 for doc review?

2010-06-05 Thread David Creamer
> I've been asked to provide Word-like change tracking for document review. I > haven't been down this road with FM before, so I would appreciate any and all > input how I can provide this type of document or something similar. InTech used to sell one for Frame 7. I

Change Tracking in FM 7.1 for doc review?

2010-06-05 Thread Art Campbell
Could you clarify your question? I'm reading it two ways: Either you need to flag changes in FM since the previous rev so they stand out to reviewers. OR... you want to let people record comments in the text, for which others are recommending (correctly) to use Acrobat to track comments. Art