September 2007 Archives

To continue with the "comment" theme, there is new feature in Acrobat that will allow you to remove all the comments from a pdf as well as other items.  How I would use this in an AEC/EPC workflow, is for external communication.  Such as if I was a lead engineer or working on a team that was going through a review cycle it may come to a point in which we need to send the document to an external party such as a vendor, client, contractor, etc.  We may not want them to see the comments associated to the document.  This is where the "Examine Document" feature can aid you in simply removing all the comments with the click of a button versus deleting each individual comment.

I recently attended the Acrobat Users Group meeting in Dallas.  This month our guest speaker was Lori DeFurio who is the Customer and Field Enablement Evangelist for Adobe primarily focused on Acrobat.  Lori has probably forgotten more about Acrobat than I will ever know.  It was a great presentation and she showed a bunch of tips and tricks to be used with Acrobat.  One of the tips was how to flatten all comments, forms, and digital signatures on a pdf so they could no longer be edited, moved, deleted and so forth.  In this blog entry I will show you how.