Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications

Reader Users Can Play, Too

While markup features have been available since Acrobat 3.0 (when they were called Annotations), potential collaborators had to purchase a retail copy of Acrobat to participate. But that changed when Acrobat 7.0 Professional added the ability to enable a PDF so that users of the free Reader application could create, import, and export comments and markups. Acrobat 8.0 added the option to enable Reader users to save filled-out forms (previously, form data would vaporize when a Reader user saved a filled form—very frustrating).

Since its introduction in Acrobat 7.0, the “enable for Reader” feature has changed names and menu locations, bouncing between the Documents, Comments, and Advanced menus. To enable a PDF in Acrobat ...