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From: Lewis, Sunshine T.
Date: Jul 26, 2011 11:45AM

It's been several years since I used CommonLook but my experience then was that any productivity gains were quickly lost by crashes and inexplicable bugs. More than once I would painstakingly get to page 18 of a 21 page document only to discover that at some point the half the text on page 6 was gone and (because of the odd auto-save functionality) I had to start over. I've been using Acrobat Pro as my only tool for PDF remediation ever since and although it is still tedious and occasionally inexplicable, I feel I have better control over the final outcome and less frustration in general.

However, I am more programmer than not, and the Acrobat Pro tags interface is familiar ground.

I think the real answer will depend on the person doing the remediation and what they are comfortable with. I'm not sure if CommonLook is offering demos yet but if you get the chance to try it out I would recommend evaluating it on individual user level.


Sunshine Lewis
Web Specialist
Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs
500 S. Bronough St. | Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250
Phone: 850.245.6493 | Fax: 850.245.6497
http://www.florida-arts.org



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