Stop Automatic Connection to Review/Comment Server in Acrobat DC
Hi,
I'm not sure if there was a change made since Acrobat X, but we used to be able to prevent connection to the review server during Shared Review. This was an important ability, as we sometimes send an annotated PDF to a client for comment while we, internally, comment on the same document. We publish our internal comments to the review server. However, we would like to prevent (at least temporarily) combining the client's comments with our internal comments, so that we can address their comments separately and return a copy with only their comments addressed. We do want to maintain the ability to eventually publish their comments in our review server in the same document/version that contains our internal comments.
In Acrobat DC, it seems that we are no longer being asked when we open an annotated PDF whether we would like to connect to the review server. In previous versions of Acrobat, we would be able to click "No" and temporarily maintain a version of the annotated PDF that only includes the client's comments.
One workaround is to filter all comments and create a comment summary, but the output is not ideal. We'd prefer to return a functional annotated PDF, not a comment summary, but we cannot do so without also returning our internal comments, since they are automatically imported when we open the client version. The alternative approach is to maintain two copies of each document that we review (one with client comments and one with internal comments). That is also not idea.
What happened to the ability to NOT connect to the review server when opening an annotated PDF? Is there a setting or has this ability been arbitrarily removed? Is there another method to disconnect/dissociate an annotated PDF from the review server, other than (perhaps, haven't tested it) completely disconnecting network/internet access from the machine while we work on the client's version?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts! Between Microsoft and Adobe, it seems like every "upgrade" just makes things more difficult.