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February 22, 2016
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Proofreaders marks with Adobe Acrobat?

  • February 22, 2016
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Do you use proofreaders marks on an Abobe Acrobat document?  If you do are there any templates or add-on that can be installed?  Why not just use comments? 

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chrisg32093773
Participant
February 18, 2023

Yes! I use this custom stamp library that contains a full set of proofreading marks;

https://exchange.adobe.com/apps/cc/100535/editorial-markup-stamp-library-for-acrobat

 

I think it's much more convienent thank using the Comments tool.

tklow
Known Participant
August 11, 2017

Many editors use Acrobat for copy editing and proofreading and this is getting more common as e-books become more popular.  If you have a stylus, you can use it to create notes and proofreading marks on your document.  You can supplement this with some of the tools in the Acrobat COMMENT feature.

But the more common option is to use editing stamps, as mentioned above.  There are many sets available online.  Look around for one that suits you: some are geared toward UK editors, others for North America.  I offer a large set via my website -- it has about 100 stamps in multiple colors and a small selection of French editing stamps (useful here in Canada).  There is a small set available for free and it comes with instructions so you can try out PDF editing and see if you like it: Cobweb

Adobe Employee
March 1, 2016

This 3rd party set of stamps might help:  Traditional editorial markup with PDF Proofreading Marks

Document Geek
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Community Expert
February 23, 2016

If you want to use proofreader marks, you can install a set of custom stamps. This page a bunch of good ones: How can I create custom stamps that I can use for proofreading? (Edit PDF)

Community Manager
February 23, 2016

Hi gscortino1,

Would like to inform you that Adobe Acrobat does not use Proofreaders.

Regards,

Yatharth