standards and guidelines?

[michaels32116526]

are there any industry standards and guidelines available for pdf mark-ups?

[sb116]

Hi Michaels32116526,

Please refer to the link below and see if it helps:

Mark up text with edits, Adobe Acrobat DC

Let me know if you still need help.

Thanks,
Supriya

[michaels32116526]

Hello Supriya,

thank you for the link.

what i'm looking for is some standardised guidelines for mark-up, in that same way as we used to do paper proofs.

I do use mark-ups, but it is somewhat ad-hoc as to who follows what when it comes to colours:

ie: red for corrections, blue for ammends etc)

thank you

[Document Geek · Accepted solution]

Here is an interesting article on the color of proofreader marks, which incidentally, used to be in blue.

Well if it helps, the default colors in Acrobat are red for corrections, and lo for amends, just as you describe. But you can change them to whatever colors you want. If would for example, be rather difficult to see red corrections on red text.

But Acrobat has several different ways to sort the markups. You can sort them by color or by type, among other things.