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TRACK CHANGES AS YOU GO
IMPORT PDF COMMENTS
Track the changes in text as you edit your FrameMaker documents. Select Special > Track Text Edits and use the options under this menu to quickly enable, preview, accept, or reject changes.
Directly import comments from the PDF document that you set up for shared review. The FrameMaker content gets updated with the edits and comments. Choose the comments that you want to incorporate and discard the rest! Select File > Import > PDF Comments. See this feature in action at: www.adobe.com/go/learn_fm_import_pdfcomment_en
See this feature in action at: help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/8.0/02m/tracktext.htm CAPTURE SCREENSHOTS ON-THE-FLY Launch RoboScreenCapture to quickly capture screenshots, add callouts, or manipulate images directly in the content. Select File > Launch RoboScreenCapture. (Only in the FrameMaker edition bundled with the Adobe® Technical Communication Suite) MANAGE CONTENT CHANGES ACROSS DOCUMENT VERSIONS Use the Compare Documents feature in FrameMaker to create a consolidated document in which changes between versions are highlighted with inserted and deleted conditional tags. This feature is especially useful in collaborative environments that make use of a source control system. Open both versions of the document. In the newer version, choose File > Utilities > Compare Documents. LIST AND MANAGE CONDITIONAL TEXT Use the Conditional Text pod and panels to easily manage complex usage of conditional text: In the Conditional Text pod, double-click the condition tag. In the Conditional Text panel, sort, edit, or delete text, tables, and graphics tagged with the condition you selected. SELECTIVELY APPLY CHANGE BARS Gain exact control on what you want to mark with change bars—especially when you are proofing the source. Instead of turning the change bars on: Select the text you want to mark, and then press Ctrl+Shift+H to apply change bars. To remove the change bar applied, select the character, word, sentence, or paragraph and then press Ctrl+Shift+H again.
GET THE WORKSPACE THAT SUITS YOUR WORK Select a suitable workspace from the top right corner of the title bar to load all the relevant pods and panels automatically. For example, use the Manage Content workspace when you are editing the document and fixing cross-references and variables. For more information, see http://bit.ly/7riMW0. MAKE CHANGE BARS INVISIBLE IN INTERIM PDFS If you want to preserve change bars in the source but hide them in an interim PDF, set their color to white in the Change Bar Properties dialog box. Turn them back to Black when you edit the source. Select Format > Document > Change Bars. See http://bit.ly/1rLUV3 for more information. LAUNCH PDF REVIEWS FROM WITHIN FRAMEMAKER Launch a shared review with just a click. Select File > Save As PDF (Send for Review). OPTIMIZE THE SETTINGS FOR GENERATING PDF FILES Use the PDF Setup dialog box to optimize the size of the generated PDFs, control SWF file and 3D object embedding, and create tagged PDFs to enable importing PDF comments. See http://bit.ly/2mIfSA.
