InDesign Share for Review - FAQ

This is just so frustrating. Having spent the last few days managing the issues we have already highlighted by repeatedly signing out and back in and opening InDesign again, now my document crashes right as it's about to complete the review update. I've tried it 10 times with the same crash every time. I've copied the file from a removable disk to the hard drive with the same results. It's SO frustrating! This job is now finished and I just need a final sign-off from my director to complete it, but can't update the review!!!! Really sad with how Adobe have stretched themselves so thin that every app is now crap.

This feature is totally broken. Any time I try to update a document I shared before it was broken says in bright red "There was an error creating the artifact". Just take a look at the article here: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/40767463-can-t-share-for-review - This feature is obviously seriously beta and should not be released to users. When I was able to get my documet to post, when a reviewer tried to comment all strike-throughs and highlights were not visible in InDesign. What's going on with QA at Adobe these days, do they even test these features or do they just assume they will work?

Hi rpr,

if you do Share For Review with a document and then you want to work on under the following conditions:

[1] Save As with the same name of your document.

[2] Save As with a new name and want to work on with the new document.

[3] You did a roundtrip with Export to IDML, open IDML as document.

you will see a blank Share for Review panel in InDesign.

[4] Duplicated the document file in your file system

you'll perhaps get confused what review marks you see on the page and what can only be accessed with the original document. I just testing with a document that I duplicated in the file system. I have both documents open from time to time. As it shows I never can see all the review marks on the pages. Some show up in the original, some show up in the duplicate. But in all of the two documents I can see all the comments in the panel.

So never do Save As with your document as long as your Share for Review workflow is running.

Never do an IDML roundtrip workflow as well. This all will change the identity of your document and the Review on the web will not be able to maintain a connection to your file through the Share for Review panel.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

This feature still doesn't seem to be reliable with documents.  Have tried resaving or creating from IDML but I still only get an empty box for the share options. Absurd this feature still is so glitchy.

I've used this feature twice in the past week. The first time, all the commenting tools you showed were available. I just shared a second document for review and when I went to manage the review on the web to add a couple comments, it only shows the Pin and Draw a Shape tools. I checked my first document, and only those two are showing there now as well. What happened to the other tools!?

I tried the New Share for Review today since the additional text annotationtools were added. The improved annotations capability is great, but it's still not working properly for me. After I made annotations in my web browser (Safari on mac), those annotations imported in to InDesign. I experimented with workng with them in InDesign and when I clicked "Resolve," they disappeared! In the previous version, Resolve was like a checkmark in Acrobat. 

So I thought I'd go back into the web browser and add more comments and try again. When I launched the review again in Safari, some of the tools were missing. I could make comments, but only with the pin and the pencil.

So I tried in Chrome, and all the tools were there.

So I made some comments in Safari and then some in Chrome, and then back back to InDesign to try and interact with them. But the panel now says there are no comments.

I really need to be able to save an archive copy of my documetns with the PDF comments intact. I work with engineers on technical documetns, and it's important to have a record of the comments they make so that we can refer to them later. Is it possible to do the folowing?

1. NOT delete the comments when I mark them as resolved
2. Download a copy of the commented PDF for offline storage

I tried a second document and it behaved the same way: missing tools in Safari and no comments imported back into InDesign. 

It's totally unusable. 

Hi! i just update the new version on indesign 2021 (Indesign 16.0) and try Share for review option, it work and i see something new, the replace text option, in the review pdf web platform, BUT when i see it in indesign, there is no way to apply the change in indesign (like it work when i use the import comments from PDF) i think is a little bug in the new indesign 2021 version. Please let me know when it´s fix and can apply the text in indesign

Thankyou!

WEB VIEW:

INDESIGN VIEW:

Is there a way to see who owns a document? I am trying to create a review on a project and its telling me I can't because I don't own it. And is there a way to change owners?

I've been using the Share and Review app with colleagues and it's been pretty successful so far but there appears to be one major glitch that causes a real continuity error, and amazingly no one; from what I can tell, seems to have mentioned to this point.

When one of my colleagues has used the website to place a pin or drawn a shape onto a specific page, this shows up fine within InDesign (here's a demo example on the website, which appears identical within InDesign):

However, if a new page is added within InDesign before the page where the current pins/drawings are located, the content looks fine within InDesign, but when the page is updated and refreshed on the review website, everything is suddenly offset by a page and in effect, becomes unsuable:

I've tried re-updating the link within the review tool, using CTRL + F5 on the website and shutting down both applications (InDesign and the web browser) but the offset drawings and pins are always incorrect on the website.

The review tool is a real bonus but when we often have large edits taking place which include new charts, graphs and the adding or removing of large paragraphs of text, which at times changes the placement of content or may require a new page for continuity, I can't really ask colleagues to hold on with any new comments until I resolve layout issues.

If there's something I'm doing wrong or I've missed, I'd really appreciate some advice. I'm currently creating a video tutorial for new staff on how to use this tool and at the moment, I have to describe this as an anomaly which will hopefully be fixed in a future update, which is a bit dubious on my part.

Many thanks,

Barry 

Hi Angel,

"quite large" should be no problem, I think.

Once did an experiment with a 600 pages document with a lot of of tables and images, around 250 MB in document file size. Share For Review worked. However, it took about 15 minutes for the whole process to a add a review.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )