Clint Pullin, Tips for Using Acrobat to Comment on Draft Documents
TechnoLawyer member Austin Barsalou asks:
"Hi, I have a question. The Property Owners Committee of the Texas Bar Association Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section is working on a draft of a uniform law for property owners associations and needs a way for a variety of interest groups to review and comment on our working draft of the Texas Uniform Planned Community Act ("TUPCA"). Are you aware of a reasonably priced software solution to deal with this type of application? Thank you for your assistance."
Adobe Acrobat Pro 7.0 allows you to send out documents for comment by the public by way of e-mail or by using an Adobe owned server for browser based review and commenting. The process resembles the track changes feature of MS Word, but appears more robust to me. It has check off functions to show that a comment has been reviewed, accepted, rejected, etc. You can color code comments by different people. For example, commercial building owners could be assigned one color while apartment owners or industrial property owners could have different colors assigned. Public comments can be made by people who have Adobe Reader 7.0. Adobe Reader is freeware, and a link to a download can easily be made in the document or e-mail.
R. Clint Pullin
Legal Assistant
Legal Division
Department of Insurance
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