Why Adobe is better for book publishing
June 28, 2022

Why Adobe is better for book publishing

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Acrobat DC

We use it to review book layouts and designs before publication. We use the pdfs as electronic proofs, reviewed by authors, designers, proofreaders, etc. We also use it to collect signatures on documents.

Pros

  • Great comment functions. Allows several reviewers to comment without changing the underlying document.
  • Allows non-designers to see layout and size, to check specs.
  • Preserves layout and type appearance from creation to prepress.

Cons

  • Adobe Sign needs improvement. Very, very difficult to collect several signatures on one document. The competitor DocuSign is far easier to use.
  • A surprising number of our clients have no idea how to see the comment panel and complain to us "The tiny stickies [yellow flags in the doc] are hard to see." Or "I can't see the comments." People are surprising but you gotta work with them. How to collapse or expand the Comment side panel needs to be even more obvious.
  • Document review
  • Gathering signatures
  • Evaluating layout and design
  • Adobe Acrobat enables more remote work; reviewers don't have to see galleys or hard copy proofs.
We only use Apple products. I don't really know how it works across non-Apple devices, but no one ever complains, so I suppose it's fine. I think the issue is using it with people who are die-hard Google Docs users. It's a totally different philosophy of document creation, not really a device-dependent issue.
Quite a pain. We work with many clients and writers who are not tech-savvy or even tech-averse, and they always have issues: "I can't sign in," "I can't add my signature," "Someone already signed this and now I can't sign it," "Can you send scan this and send it to me because I can't open it." The list is endless.

Do you think Adobe Acrobat delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Adobe Acrobat's feature set?

Yes

Did Adobe Acrobat live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Adobe Acrobat go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Adobe Acrobat again?

Yes

Adobe Acrobat DC is well suited to reviewing proofs of material to be printed. It allows comments and discussion by several readers or reviewers WITHOUT changing the underlying document. In materials that are actually going to become printed books from commercial publishers, this is very important. You can't have an author going in and making a change in a document going to press and messing up the typeface or image placement on a file that's going to press on a 50,000-copy run, or on a four-color press. It's best for them to make comments on an Acrobat file, and not have them going in and changing the InDesign file.

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