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InDesign Share for Review - FAQ

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June 16, 2020
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Using Share for Review in InDesign’s June 2020 release, you can share your designs for online review, and manage feedback right within the app. Stakeholders can open the shared document in a browser to provide feedback. Share for Review streamlines and simplifies the review process for both designers and their stakeholders.

The following FAQs provide clarity on common questions around Share for Review:

Share the document for review - FAQ

View reviewer comments - FAQ

Review the document - FAQ

Best practices

How is Share for Review different from the ‘Integrated comment and review’ feature in InDesign CS5? How does it compare to the Import PDF Comments (IPC) feature?

Adobe is investing in features and services that make creative collaboration easier and more enjoyable.

With Share for Review, our aspiration is to make reviewing and editing InDesign creative more seamless, and address the following limitations in CS Review:

Requirement for a flash plugin to use this feature
Lack of support for key features such as email notifications
User challenges with feature discoverability

Compared to Import PDF Comments (IPC), Share for Review reduces time by eliminating the need to create and share PDFs and collate the resulting feedback. We will be working to enhance the reviewing features and capabilities in Share for Review, which will soon help this tool surpass the experience of IPC, from end to end.

Does Share for Review include text commenting capabilities?

This first version of the feature allows you to provide feedback through the sticky note and pencil tools. We will continue to improve the experience, and we will soon incorporate more text commenting capabilities, including text highlight, text strikethrough, and the ability to accept text comments in a single click.

Is this feature being introduced into InCopy?

It is not. Instead, we’ll be making significant updates to InCopy by taking it to the Web to provide better collaboration capabilities. Stay tuned!

What text capabilities do I have as a reviewer?

As a reviewer, you will be able to highlight text, strikethrough text, and replace text corresponding to your comment.

Let us know of any challenges, or questions you have for us around Share for Review and we’ll be happy to assist you.

Correct answer Nathan Marroquin

This has worked for others:

Save any work and close all open
Sign out of InDesign (Help > Sign out). This will cause indesign to quit.
Launch InDesign again, at which point you should be prompted to sign in again.

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Saya1241

Participating Frequently

It doesn't work

It means something: "artifact cannot be created properly". I would like to try to translate it properly, but I have no clue what it means even in german.

The update killed my scripts folder, my shortcuts, cost me about half a day and gave me a feature that doesn't work with meaningless error messages. In the future I will only update if a customer forces me to do so.

courtney546

Participant

Hi! I am having issues seeing anyone's pin or shape when they comment within the Review panel. I can see their comments and it shows that they pinned or outlined content (with an icon by their name) but the pin or outline itself does not appear... Also, when they go in and pin something, they write in their comment and the second they hit "Submit" the pin or outline disappears... any ideas on how we can fix?

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ed73

Participating Frequently

Same issue here with the pins problem.

I used this for a client two weeks ago and it worked fine.

Now whatever I try, I cannot pin the comments. The pin drops in white with red border, comment is added, but pin then vanishes while the comment is posted as 'Unmapped comment'.

Sheena KaulAuthor

Legend

Hi there,

We've multiple customers reporting this issue and our engineers are working on this issue.

I'll update this thread as soon as I have more info.

Regards,

Sheena

JRBlack

Participant

I have been testing this out with coworkers. Last week went well, but this week is not. Anybody else getting unmapped comments (i.e., comments not getting associated with where one put the pin)?

KingPasta

Participant

Yes - I've been testing this today.

I believe its if you open an old InDesign document (2019 or older) in the new InDesign 2020 then try and use the new share and review feature.

I've tried moving my pages from the 2019 document over to a new 2020 document and have mixed results. I've just tried moving each page contents via copy and paste in place for each page (26 pages!!!) and can report it works!

Solution: Start a new Adobe 2020 document, or copy > paste in place from an old document to a new 2020 document

fabricel26565211

Participant

I think this shows the extent of the testing that has been conducted on the feature before it was publicly released...

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mabelfac@gmail.com

Participant

Hello, i'm having trouble with pinning my comments, i've tried it all and it just doens't pin on my link for review, i can add coments but they stay in the general feed.

theadz02

Participating Frequently

Same problem here. Reviewers comments are not pinning to the document on the web view and show as unmapped comments. They appear to be mapped OK in InDesign in the review panel, but it is quite frustrating for the document reviewers on the web view. Is this able to be fixed ASAP please?

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albertoscjr

Participant

Hi. My Adobe Indesign always crashes when I try to update the link Share to Review. Can you solve this issue?

Sheena KaulAuthor

Legend

Hi there,

Are you still facing this issue? Please confirm the version of InDesign on your machine?

Are you on a Win or MAC? Is the app crashing when sharing this specific document or does this happen while working with other documents as well?

Regards,

Sheena

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VMAC Tech

Participant

As the author I really enjoy this feature however feedback from the engineering team has been mixed.

There needs to be a "Track Changes" features so that when the author addresses something that has been commented on, the person who made the comment can see the before and after versions.
One engineer advised that the line weight was so large he was unable to see what he had marked up.
For people who do not wish to create Adobe ID's, allow a "guest" a way to return to the document and see/edit their comments.

Sheena KaulAuthor

Legend

Hi there,

Thanks for all the feedback. Please make sure you upvote for these features on the UserVoice so the product team can look into it.

Also, try creating a public link and send that to the reviewers and that should not ask for any Adobe ID.

Regards,

Sheena

NeilPetrunia

Participant

I tried sharing a file for review, and set it to private. My user who I shared the file with was asked for a password, which I did not set when I shared the file. Why are they being asked for a password that has not been set?

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Brucegraham

Participating Frequently

I assume the share link is basically just like making and emailing a PDF to someone? So I cant send the link to my editor who can then proof read and change little bits of text saving him marking up a PDF and sending it to me to make the amends?

Sheena KaulAuthor

Legend

Hi there,

Yes, you create a web link to your document and can invite people to review it and provide feedback. Additionally, if you want you can send the link yourself to the reviewer.

Please see Share the document for review - FAQ for more details.

Regards,

Sheena

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lindsayt36228949

Participant

Hi, I have a presentation that I want to share for review using the new indd feature. However, it doesn't animate my MP4 or gif file. How can I make this work so my client can see the animation/video in the share for review system

Sheena KaulAuthor

Legend

Hi there,

As far as I know, the animations or interactive features won't play in the document that is on the web to be reviewed.

But I'd suggest posting about this functionality on our UserVoice so that the product team can look into it.

Regards,

Sheena

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-e-henderson-

Participant

Is there a feature to donwload the review doc as a pdf with comments? I'm trying to figure out optimal workflow to have a local copy of comments for approval, adocumentation, and archiving purposes.

Sheena KaulAuthor

Legend

Hi there,

With this current Share for Review workflow that isn't possible but You can follow the old methods of exporting the document as PDF and then importing the comments into Indesign.

Please refer to the help document for more details: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/using/import-pdf-comments.html

Regards,

Sheena

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