HELP: What is the best way to share comments with the client?

[Ayanaru]

I am looking for a way how to share my comments on the copy or explain some of my decisions with the client. I know only one option:

• In InDesign I can use notes and have them exported into PDF as comments via InCopy. However, there is no way to highlight text like when using comments.

I there a way how to achieve this when using Share for Review? I need to leave some comments to the receiving party constantly and it is just so hard to do. The other way is easy, but I think it should be easy both ways - e.g. by having ability to Comment in InDesign or by transposing Note to Share for review, which according to another answer from 2020 is essentialy not possible due to architecture of the function.

Thanks you for any suggestions!

[Mike Witherell]

PDF Commenting is still the better method relative to Share for Review. Make sure your commenting editors know to use mostly the 3 Auto-Edit Comment tools in Acrobat Pro. Those three make your life easier and quicker to incorporate their text changes.

[Ayanaru]

Thanks for the reply. I just learned the hard way that PDF might not be the way to do things. Just discovered that I cannot import PDF comments from PDF created through InCopy! But the only way to export InDesign with notes/comments is the InCopy. Catch 22? 🤯

[Mike Witherell]

Your observation about notes and comments reminds me that I have been trying to memorize a useful definition of the mechanical difference between notes, annotations, and comments. 

At any rate, I find that PDF Comments and Share for Review both need to grow their feature set  in order to satisfy usefulness.