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Automatically collect everyone's comments in a single PDF file. Track progress and consolidate comments.
Before you begin
We're rolling out a new, more intuitive product experience. If the screen shown here doesn’t match your product interface, select help for your current experience.
Available in: Acrobat
Use the Adobe Document Cloud review service to easily share PDF files for review from Acrobat desktop application, the Document Cloud web, or Acrobat Reader mobile app. When reviewers click the URL in the email invitation from their computer, they can easily provide their feedback in a browser without having to sign in or install any additional software.
You can use the service to share PDF files for review in one of the following ways:
An anonymous or public link makes the files accessible to anyone who clicks the link. Follow the steps below to create a review link, and share it using your email client.
Open the PDF in Acrobat.
Select Share in the upper right. You get either of the two options:
By default, the People can comment switch is turned on. To share the file only for viewing, select Anyone can access and comment in the Share dialog box, and then switch the toggle next to People can comment to turn it off.
The link is created and copied by default. Share the link with other recipients. You can also perform any of the following actions from the right pane:
The reviewers receive an email invitation with a link to the review PDF. When they select the link or the Open button in the invitation, the PDF opens in a web browser. They can use the commenting tools to add comments to the PDF. They can also use Acrobat Reader or Acrobat desktop applications to add comments.
For more information, see Participating in a PDF review.
Open the PDF in Acrobat.
Select Share.
Enter the email addresses of the recipients or choose from the Address Book.
Enter a message to the recipients (optional).
Use @mention in your personal commenting notes to start a review. The @mentions includes your organizational contacts and your synced personal contacts list. The moment you use @mention in a PDF file, the review mode gets enabled for you. The reviewers get an invitation email with a link to the Document Cloud shared review file.
The reviewers receive an email invitation with a link to the review PDF. When they click the link or the Open button in the invitation, the PDF opens in a web browser. They can use the commenting tools to add comments to the PDF. They can also use Acrobat Reader or Acrobat desktop applications to add comments.
For more information, see Participating in a PDF review.
For information on tracking the reviewers' activity on the document, see Tracking and managing PDF reviews.