Shared review security

If I post my document on acrobat.com for a shared review, is it secure?
what kinds of security measures are in place?

Here is some security information regarding Acrobat.com:
http://www.adobe.com/acom/systemreqs/

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    Hey All
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    Dave

    That’s correct. Others can participate using Reader in the shared reviews.

  • Shared Review: Acrobat Pro 9; Reader 8 issues

    Hi,
    I've been experimenting with the Shared Review features on Acrobat 9 Pro, and we've run into some slightly odd behaivour.
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    It was on Acrobat.com, so we did know that the reviewers needed Acrobat 9.x - but they were lulled into a false sense of security that it might just work anyway, since the commenting tools and so on appeared.
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    Reviewer opens the local copy of the file, and is warned that they need Reader 9.x, but decide to give it a go regardless.
    Reviewer makes comments on the pdf, hits "Publish Comments", and nothing much happens - I check on the file, and no comments have been transferred to the server.
    At this point we decide to upgrade to Reader 9, so the reviewer saves and closes the local version of the file, and downloads & installs Reader 9.3.
    We open up the local copy of the file (that previously had the comments on) and, when prompted, sign into Acrobat.com.
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  • Shared Review Acrobat X Shows copy of 1st review file opened

    I have organized many shared reviews using Acrobat Pro from v. 8 until  X. Ever since my Windows upgrade I have encountered some problems. The most egregious of these is the following: If I open up a Shared Review pdf I can only see it as I saw it the first time I opened it. For example if the first time I opened it there were 24 comments by the reviewing community, each subsequent time I open it, it shows the same amount of comments. Even if more people have commented since then. I see it on others' desktops, and they show the full review. If I opened it first when there were not comments, then each time I open it afterward, I see no comments. I can only see a full set of comments if I access the file from a computer that never opened the file at any point during the review period. For example, I opened a recent review file when it was first sent out. There were two comments at that time. 20 subsequent comments have come in since then. The initiator has since extended the deadline; however, each time I try to open it again, I see a "review ended notification" with the same two comments that I saw when I opened the file. Has anyone encountered this? I have tried to delete my cookies and other temporary internet files to no avail.

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    Reviewer opens the local copy of the file, and is warned that they need Reader 9.x, but decide to give it a go regardless.
    Reviewer makes comments on the pdf, hits "Publish Comments", and nothing much happens - I check on the file, and no comments have been transferred to the server.
    At this point we decide to upgrade to Reader 9, so the reviewer saves and closes the local version of the file, and downloads & installs Reader 9.3.
    We open up the local copy of the file (that previously had the comments on) and, when prompted, sign into Acrobat.com.
    We check through the document, looking at the comments - any comments that had been made by other reviewers that were already on the server file are present, but all of the comments that had been made on the local file were deleted, and there appeared to be no way of recovering them.
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    Dave

  • Acrobat "Send for Shared Review" - Reviewing with Adobe Reader?

    Hello all,
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    Sabian Zildjian wrote:
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  • Unable to Share a PDF from Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro for Shared Review-Permissions Issue

    Hi,
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    No updates recently - except possibly whatever Microsoft updates automatically (security, etc.).
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  • Can you send a document for Shared Review once you've applied an electronic signature?

    Hi! I'm having troubles sending a document for shared review, I need 3 people to digitally sign it and then send it on a shared review. I keep getting this error message however:
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  • Automated shared review

    Here is my scenario. I am basically trying to recreate the shared review process offered through Acrobat, but do in a more automated way in a web environment. Plus I want every user involved to only need Acrobat Reader (my company would cover the costs for the additional software).
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    There are two parts to this. The first being how to enable the mark-up tools when the PDF is uploaded to the site. I figured out that I need LiveCycle for this. The second part is how do I automatically embed the shared review webdav folder information into the PDF as it is uploaded to my site so the initiator of the PDF does not need to do it manually?
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    Thanks guys. That is a bummer.
    We already have the trial version of LiveCycle installed. What is the "online commenting" check box for? When I check the box it does not do anything differently. The help menu is not completely clear on what it is for. It says "Online Commenting: Allows users to upload or download document comments. If you select this feature, Commenting is also automatically selected." That sounds like what I am looking for.
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  • Attempting to automate shared review with XI - deleted comments won't delete

    We've been using the old/depricated browser based reviews for years.  We've integrated that process with several of our line of business apps.  The shared review process in XI is cumbersome to start for large groups of people from within acrobat, but we need the be able to use the shared review process in our workflows. (Looking at livecycle, but the pricing is jaw dropping.)
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    I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you are going down a rabbit hole of sorrow and tears.  A couple of things about what you are attempting to do.
    The JavaScript API that starts a Shared Review is undocumented.  It's not in the Acrobat SDK and if you run into problems you are pretty much on your own.  LiveCylce unfortunately is not a solution in this case either.  It has no Shared Review capability in it like it used to have for the old and deprecated Browser Based Review.

  • Acrobat can't access shared review data on WebDAV

    Now I'm trying to setup shared review environment using WebDAV.
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    Client : Mac OSX 10.6.8
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    1. Open Safari
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    AmbooS wrote:
    A similar issue was fixed in Acrobat 10.1 patch. Download and install the patch from Adobe website and see if your issue is resolved.
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    ( get the Dialog box which says "Acrobat cannot connect to the Review Server ..." )
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    When I open the PDF(not for Shared Review), Reader Plugin can open it correctly.
    (I verified Safari's installed plugin setting for pdf  is "Adobe Acrobat Plug-in, Version 10.1.0")
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    2. I checked http access log (of webdav server), but there are no access logs from (MacOSX's) Adobe Synchronizer.(I verified this when the firewall of MacOSX was disabled)
    3. Access to PDF file is working properly (Acorobat Reader on MacOSX can display PDF (but shared review data are not)).
    4. When I accessed from Windows XP(Acrobat Reader), like the following http access log has been recorded.
    xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - suda [22/Sep/2011:15:41:55 +0900] "GET /webdavtest/2/413/1/NEW_0003_review.pdf__735c6012134e4f9f9fbdebb4b9029b39/masao.suda.at.i nteraction-i.co.jp.xml HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; Adobe Synchronizer 10.1.1)"
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    In the previous post. Once I (and my co-worker) verified this was solved certainly.
    I found similar issue (  http://forums.adobe.com/thread/850377 ). was this problem solved?

  • Shared review can't connect on mac

    I've got a client who is trying to participate on a shared review via webdav.  He's using a mac over a satellite internet connection and it seems that he can't connect to the shared review because it's timing out before the server responds.  He's getting an error message that says "There was an error connecting to the server." and suggests checking the IP address, but it works fine on other computers.  I'm wondering if he needs to modify a security setting on his end or if there is a way to extend the timeout.  Any suggestions would be great.

    Thanks for the reply Michael.  The other users are using either a cable connection, T1, or dsl.  I'm thinking that the connection speed might be the problem although i would imagine that the shared review feature would be designed to work with a dial-up connection too.  I did find a connection speed setting on the internet tab of the preferences.  I'm going to try having him change that to the lowest setting to see if that helps.

  • Shared review safety?

    If I post my document on acrobat.com for a shared review, is it secure?Should I be worried if I have sensitive information that is in my document?
    what kinds of security measures are in place?

    What happens when the review is over, does or can the document get  deleted from acrobat.com?
    You may remove the document from the server at any time, and it will no longer be available on Acrobat.com to you or anyone else.
    If is does get deleted, is there a way  to save the final review document down locally?
    You may certainly download the document to your computer at any time, using the "Download" button in the upper-lefthand part of the screen.
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    To do the live collaboration, do you have to host the document  on acrobat.com or can you also do that if the document is on a  shared network folder?
    I'm afraid I don't know what you mean here - the document that you upload to Acrobat.com can be shared with a number of people, all of whom will be able to view the document (and able to download it if you allow them to). When you upload a PDF to our servers, it is not meant to be edited or commented on, but simply viewed and shared; at this time, like I mentioned above, reviewers may read the PDF, but not edit it.
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    Take care,
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  • How can I see shared review comments in a PDF when connected to a SharePoint server over a VPN?

    I am using Acrobat Pro XI on Windows 7.
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    I don't know if you solved this issue yet. But we have the same issue in the pass, and clean the log files under "\Synchronizer\resources\" folder seems to be a solution. Here is the thread talking about it.
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  • Shared review using Sharepoint 2010 Foundation

    Brief description *
    Sharepoint for Shared review
    Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible *
    Shared review using server acrobat.com works fine. However, when using Sharepoint as server the testing fails and it is not possible to finnish the set up of the shared review.
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