I'm updating an FM 10 document using track changes. I then have to distribute the document as an RTF for review. The reviewers want to be able to see the track changes. However, according to FM 10 help, when you publish an FM document to RTF, the text edits are accepted, and the document is published with the edited content. Does anyone know of a way to publish to RTF without having the text edits accepted?
You might want to re-consider distributing RTFs for review as they would be almost impossible to roundtrip back to FM. If you create PDFs enabled for commenting & review, then you can preserve the track-edit mark-up and get back comments that can be re-inserted into your FM doc.
The commenting can be done using the freebie Acrobat Reader, so no additional costs are incurred if that is a concern.
Sorry, don't know anything about RTF & edits - why don't you print to PDF and use the new reviewer comments feature to bring reviewer edits back into your FM doc?
What you are doing is a key design objective of PDF, and has been for a long time.
"... publish to RTF ..."
I suspect that most of the readership here would agree that RTF is not a publishing format.
It's a last-resort export format (typically when some poor Frame document is sentenced to become Word document). Even then, I'd look for other paths to get more of the content and formatting to survive that essentially one-way trip.
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