November 2007 Archives

I have received several questions asking why a comment made in Acrobat automatically takes your computer login id?  Several corporations use unique naming conventions for their employee login id’s which usually consist of a series of numbers and letters.  If you make a comment in Acrobat it takes this id by default.  Then other users have issues in trying to identify who user “xyz1234” really is.  Today I am going to show you how you can change this to reflect your true identity.

One of the best features in Acrobat is the ability to round trip comments.  Starting in Acrobat 7 Pro we gave you the ability to enable users with the Free Adobe Reader software to fully participate in document review with complete commenting and markup tools.  The great thing about this is it give you about 90% of desktops that you are able to communicate with and solicit comments.  The two document types in the AEC industry that use this today to solicit feedback and round trip comments, is on Word documents and AutoCad drawings.  For this entry I am going to take you how to complete this process on a Word document.

We had an overwhelming response at the Greenbuild Conference!  There were many interesting conversations over the course of 3 days.  The biggest question that we had to answer was "what are you doing here?" There are many reasons we attended and exhibited at the Greebuild conference, but here are my top 3.