• Global community
    • Language:
      • Deutsch
      • English
      • Español
      • Français
      • Português
  • 日本語コミュニティ
    Dedicated community for Japanese speakers
  • 한국 커뮤니티
    Dedicated community for Korean speakers
Exit
0

How can I see changes made to a document in Acrobat Pro DC?

New Here ,
Mar 30, 2016 Mar 30, 2016

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

I have a trial version of Acrobat Pro DC and am doing a proofreading job that requires changes to be seen, but at present they are not. My question is: can they be seen? If so, how? And if not, which program with a free trial can I use to do so? Thank you.

TOPICS
Acrobat SDK and JavaScript

Views

3.2K

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines

correct answers 1 Correct answer

Community Expert , Mar 30, 2016 Mar 30, 2016

The correct workflow would be to add comments to the PDF and then send it back to the authors. They would then apply the changes in the original file format and generate a new PDF when done.

Votes

Translate

Translate
Community Expert ,
Mar 30, 2016 Mar 30, 2016

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

Acrobat is not a word processing application, and should not be used as such. That's why it doesn't have a "Track Changes" function.

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Expert ,
Mar 30, 2016 Mar 30, 2016

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

The correct workflow would be to add comments to the PDF and then send it back to the authors. They would then apply the changes in the original file format and generate a new PDF when done.

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
New Here ,
Apr 30, 2019 Apr 30, 2019

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

If you can only view your changes as Comments, how do you know changes will look the way you want them to look? There's no way to view your changes? That's crazy.

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Expert ,
Apr 30, 2019 Apr 30, 2019

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

You can use the Compare Documents function to compare an old version with a new one, but PDF files were not meant to be edited directly, so applying changes to them is risky and not recommended.

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
LEGEND ,
May 01, 2019 May 01, 2019

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

LATEST

You don't make changes to the PDF at all, so how they look is not relevant. Use comments only to COMMUNICATE to the author what THEY will change. No good workflow involves changing the actual PDF, and unfortunately Adobe marketing seems to tell you the exact opposite!


Think of the PDF like a printed (proof) copy. The copy is scribbled on to say what needs changing. Someone then makes the changes to the original.

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
New Here ,
Mar 30, 2016 Mar 30, 2016

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

I have just worked out what I was omitting to do, I was using edit but I should have done it in "comments", where you can see what has been done (when I say track changes, that's what I was alluding to). So it's all solved, thank you.

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
New Here ,
Apr 30, 2019 Apr 30, 2019

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

If you can only view your changes as Comments, how do you know changes will look the way you want them to look? There's no way to view your changes? That's crazy.

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines