Adobe Acrobat DC: PDF Commenting for AEC

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. Overview of the Acrobat Workspace

• The Acrobat workspace
• Maximizing your workspace
• Working with the navigation pane, toolbar, and Quick Tools
• Customizing tool shortcuts in Acrobat XI

2. About PDFs

• Scanned PDFs
• Vector PDFs with searchable text
• Vector PDFs with non-searchable text
• 3D PDFs

3. Commenting Tools

• Why you should use the commenting tools
• Using the standard text markup tools
• Using the drawing markup tools
• Recent improvements to the highlighter tool
• Using the measuring tools
• Using the Properties toolbar

4. Making Sense out of Commented Documents

• Color-coding comments
• Sorting comments by color
• Sorting and filtering comments

5. Sharing Comments across a Team

• Interacting with comments
• Manual collection of comments
• Send for Comments by email
• Send for Shared Commenting
• Track comments
• Commenting within Dropbox: A cautionary warning

6. Using Custom Scripts

• Enlarging sticky notes and text
• Changing the properties of sticky notes

7. Getting Your Comments Printed Out

• Printing to scale and comment summary
• Create comment summary

Conclusion

• Next steps