User manual

Setting up an email-based review

When an initiator sends an Adobe PDF document in an email-based review, reviewers

receive the PDF document as an email attachment. They can add their comments to the

PDF document and return the document with their comments by using the Send

Comments button in the Commenting toolbar. In email-based reviews, Acrobat enables

commenting tools and features in Adobe Reader that would otherwise be unavailable.

When the initiator opens an email attachment sent by a reviewer, the master PDF

document opens with options to import comments or open the reviewer's copy of the PDF

file.

In a tracked review, the PDF file that the initiator specifies becomes the master file to

which comments are imported. Each reviewer receives a tracked copy of this PDF

document, which allows the initiator to monitor the review status. Reviewers can save a

copy of the PDF document to their local hard drive and successfully transfer the tracking

data to that copy if they use the Save A Copy command. Any form fields in a PDF

document are not fillable during the review.

Important: Acrobat 7.0 and Adobe Reader 7.0 are recommended for participating in

reviews. Reviewers may use Acrobat 6.0 to review documents but some commenting tools

and features won't be available. Comments are sent in FDF from Acrobat 6.0.

In an email-based review, the initiator uses the Send By Email For Review wizard to start the