InDesign Share for Review - FAQ

[Sheena Kaul]

Using Share for Review in InDesign’s June 2020 release, you can share your designs for online review, and manage feedback right within the app. Stakeholders can open the shared document in a browser to provide feedback. Share for Review streamlines and simplifies the review process for both designers and their stakeholders.  

The following FAQs provide clarity on common questions around Share for Review:  

Share the document for review - FAQ

View reviewer comments - FAQ 

Review the document - FAQ

Best practices

How is Share for Review different from the ‘Integrated comment and review’ feature in InDesign CS5? How does it compare to the Import PDF Comments (IPC) feature?  

Adobe is investing in features and services that make creative collaboration easier and more enjoyable.  

With Share for Review, our aspiration is to make reviewing and editing InDesign creative more seamless, and address the following limitations in CS Review: 

• Requirement for a flash plugin to use this feature 
• Lack of support for key features such as email notifications 
• User challenges with feature discoverability 

Compared to Import PDF Comments (IPC), Share for Review reduces time by eliminating the need to create and share PDFs and collate the resulting feedback. We will be working to enhance the reviewing features and capabilities in Share for Review, which will soon help this tool surpass the experience of IPC, from end to end.   

Does Share for Review include text commenting capabilities? 

This first version of the feature allows you to provide feedback through the sticky note and pencil tools. We will continue to improve the experience, and we will soon incorporate more text commenting capabilities, including text highlight, text strikethrough, and the ability to accept text comments in a single click. 

Is this feature being introduced into InCopy?  

It is not. Instead, we’ll be making significant updates to InCopy by taking it to the Web to provide better collaboration capabilities. Stay tuned!    

What text capabilities do I have as a reviewer?  

As a reviewer, you will be able to highlight text, strikethrough text, and replace text corresponding to your comment. 

Let us know of any challenges, or questions you have for us around Share for Review and we’ll be happy to assist you. 

[Sheena Kaul]

That doesn't look right. 

Would you mind resetting the preferences once as mentioned in this document: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/using/setting-preferences.html ?

When you replace your preferences you will lose customizations beyond those things that are set in the preferences dialogs. These include Document and Print Presets you might have created.

[Kisame_Masamura]

I just made reset preferences to default.

Nothing changed, still got "Invite Olny" option.

Can't figure it out... I'll try to reinstal InDesign.

[Sheena Kaul]

Sure. 

That was the next thing I would have suggested to you. 

Let me know if uninstall and reinstall helps.

[dmadrid689]

My Share for review appears to be broken after updating to 15.1.1 this morning.

It was working perfectly last night. 

[Sheena Kaul]

I have seen this issue with another customer.

It seemed closing the app and to start it again fixed this issue.

[dmadrid689]

Unfortunately, that doesn't work. I've tried that and a complete system reboot. It's a bummer because I was in a middle of a revision with stakeholder and now I'm unable to upload any new changes. 

[Sheena Kaul]

Sorry to hear that.

Have you tried to reset the preferences as mentioned here: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/using/setting-preferences.html and then check if that helps.

[G_V]

I also had this issue and it seems that logging out of Creative Cloud and then logging back in resolves that issue!

[karinj92730100]

Can you use Track Changes and Share for Review together? My reviewers want to know what the latest changes are when they're reviewing the document.

[Sheena Kaul]

Hi there, 

We don't have that functionality as of now but it'd be great if you can add it here: https://indesign.uservoice.com/

Regards,

Sheena

[DTP Deursen]

This feature sure has potential!
I've tested it with a major client of us and all worked fine.

Except the fact that the once i've marked feedback as solved, it was no longer visible in the file.
Is there some way for my client to verify that the feedback was processed the right way.

[Sheena Kaul]

Hi there, 

Thanks for your feedback. 

The resolved comment moved to a hidden space but you can still filter those comments as mentioned here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/view-reviewer-comments-faq/td-p/11210823?page=1

Let me know if that helps.

Regards,

Sheena

[WiesHermans]

Both the "Share for Review" popup and the "Review" panel are black.

Resetting the Preferences didn't help. I'm on MacOS, running 15.1.1.103.

Thanks for your help

[Sheena Kaul]

Would you mind uninstalling and reinstalling the app once?

[WiesHermans]

I managed to solve the problem by signing out and back in Creative Cloud.

[dmadrid689]

Thank you! That resolved the issue for me too!

[G_V]

Bless you !

Can confirm this resolved the issue for me as well.

[swani1]

Yeaaay, that worked (log off/log in)! Many thanks!

[MAXIMUS Marketing]

Yep. Think that's it. (logoff/in) Thanks community! (and Adobe – thanks, Sheena!)

[mphdesign123]

As the designer, I would like a separate section (perhaps at the top of the comments list) where I can make general comments about the design, rather than have to put a pin on a particular page. 

[Sheena Kaul]

Hi there,

As of now, there is no option as such for a designer to add generic comments to the document shared for review. 

But I'd suggest you upvote for this feature on InDesign UserVoice so that the product team can look into this.

Regards,

Sheena

[RaviKiran]

The reviewer can make comments on a page without putting a Pin/Draw on that page. Just input your comments in the box you see below the Pin and Draw - the comments submitted this way refer to the Page without any Pin/Draw annotations.

[mphdesign123]

Thanks, Ravi. I do see this option but would also like to make comments that address the overall design — sort of the bold strokes of the piece. For this it would be ideal to have a note section that is not associated with any particular spread or page.

[pacepac]

It would be so great, if it would work.

1. Invitations are not landing at my clients desk. I tested this with some other email addresses, but no one is getting an invitation, so I just had the chance to test it with public sharing.
2. Making comments is working, but in Indesign they're just visible in the review pane. Means I cannot see any pin or drawing appearing in the document itself. So how should I imagine, what part of the document a comment is concerning? Always switching to the web surface to see the markings in the document, does not make sense.

Is this a known bug, or a feature 😉

Thx Harald

[pacepac]

Btw. this is happening on Mac and also concerning imported comments from PDF documents.