Acrobat 8: Shared review explained
In the latest in our ongoing series of interviews with a variety of key Acrobat team members at Adobe, I talked recently with Randy Swineford (right), part of the product management group led by Rick Brown.
Randy explains his specific duties and key areas of responsibility, which includes interacting with both customers and with other Acrobat team groups.
“We get involved with every team at Adobe–marketing, sales, legal, engineering, documentation writers–and we constantly interact with customers. I never get bored with this job, mainly because I get to talk to people at companies in every industry– from power plants to defense contractors to financial services to pharmaceutical companies to government agencies–and in every job function. They always enjoy having a conversation about Acrobat and I always enjoy showing them the product.”
His key areas of responsibility include the Combine and Collaboration features, both significantly enhanced in Acrobat 8. In addition to the Q&A-format interview, we’ve published a related sidebar in which he explains in greater detail the advantages of the new Shared Review collaboration process in Acrobat 8 as compared to Acrobat 7’s browser-based review.
“The new shared-review infrastructure is no longer dependent on the location of the document,” he says. “The path to the comment server is baked into the document when you send it for review, so you can open a document in a web browser, make comments, save it to your desktop/open Acrobat, make more comments, save it and then e-mail it to someone else–in all cases, the review will ‘just work.’”
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