![]() If you want overnight delivery (deadlines, right?), you're looking at postage of about $65, for a grand total of $87. If you make three copies (for two proofreaders and the author), that's $22.50. ![]() How much money would that save you? A 300-page book at 2.5 cents (or more) per page to print or photocopy comes to $7.50. And that means you could send PDF galleys by email rather than sending paper galleys by postal mail. ![]() It won't do everything that Acrobat does (for example, merge annotations from multiple PDF files), but it includes a wide range of PDF annotation tools. If only we'd known about the wonderful (and free!) PDF-XChange Viewer from Tracker Software Products: Acrobat has some wonderful features, but at $299 it's a tad expensive for many proofreaders: We also talked about having proofreaders work from PDF files, but that would mean they'd need to get the full-fledged Adobe Acrobat software so they could annotate the text, pointing out errors for the typesetter to correct and inserting queries for the editor. In the publishing house where I used to work, we experimented with what I call "paperless proofreading." A previous newsletter explains the concept:
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