Getting corrections back for InDesign documents

[MrZZY]

I've been working on some documents that needed a lot (and I mean a lot) of text changes. Is there a better procedure for the proofing team other than using the commenting facilities in Acrobat on PDFs exported from InDesign. Acrobat commenting introduces lots of line breaks in long paragraph replacements. This leads me to suspect that there must be something better.

[Jongware]

How do you move these corrections from a PDF into your InDesign?

Also, are you sure those line breaks are not already in the comments themselves? Some

authors just

can't shake

their habits...

(aka. "in my time we did not have computers to decide where to break a line, and I will not let one do it for me now!")

[MrZZY]

Very good point, maybe I'm assuming too much. I'll thoroughly test for this.

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

You might want to look into InCopy.

[MrZZY]

Thanks Bob. I'll look into this. I should have thought of this in fact as it's vaguely on my radar being in the whole CC ecosystem, but I'm long term tired from the project!

[BobLevine]

And editors/writers can subscribe for $5/month.

[Bill Silbert]

The advertising agency I work for uses a web-based program called Proof HQ also known as Workfront. Once a pdf of the InDesign job is uploaded to it any member of the involved proofing team can read and add comments to it at the same time. It also contains a number of features for tracking jobs and other file management issues, of which I have no direct involvement, but I am told by our project managers that it is extremely helpful in the process of file routing. We have found it to be a far more efficient workflow than using annotated pdfs especially since the entire team can be working on the job at the same time. I found this link: https://www.workfront.com/ppc/proofhq?o=7010z000000tgA8AAI&Last_Campaign__c=7010z000000tgA8AAI&utm_s...  to their website so that you can check it out further.

[vinny38]

If you want to stick to the PDF notes process, maybe you could give "Annotations" plugin a try...

DTP Tools - Annotations for Adobe InDesign

[Jongware]

vinny38  wrote

If you want to stick to the PDF notes process, maybe you could give "Annotations" plugin a try...

DTP Tools - Annotations for Adobe InDesign

Yep, that is what we use daily at the office over here, and it is pretty darn good. Only very rarely (and, alas, rather unpredictably) it misses out on a comment, but in the end even with afterwards checking, it's pretty fast and convenient.

I was assuming OP already was used this or a similar program, but it looks like zimbop is manually copying over corrections.