![]() How many books do you handle a year? Ouch! And that doesn't include mailing envelopes, time spent copying and mailing, or the time cost of losing at least two days in transit. 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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