FrameMaker 12 PDF review

If a reviewer adds a comment to the PDF, and the author deletes the paragraph in the FrameMaker file that the reviewer is commenting on -- what happens to that comment and how is it displayed when it is imported into the revised FrameMaker document?

Jeff_Coatsworth wrote:
FM isn’t really built for heavy collaboration – and with your Linux SMEs, they would probably have to run some Win emulator to use FM or the FM XML editor tool. Maybe you need to think about a wiki model?
Wiki? There is no way to get content/images into a Wiki; AFAIK, there is no FM to Markup language converter. And even if there was, it would be an impossibly involved process to convert a document to Wiki's markup language.
How do you support collaboration? Surely, you don't work in a silo? Technical writing is highly reliant on collaboration.
I can't be the only technical writer that needs Linux based SMEs to edit draft content.

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