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Hack for a Rapid Alts Check on PDFs

Hack for a Rapid Alts Check on PDFs

Cut your time and boost your accuracy with this trick for comparing dead copy changes to live copy. Make sure

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Adjust PDF Markup Globally

Adjust PDF Markup Globally

In the free Acrobat Reader, changing the properties of a group of markup is a snap. Actually, this works in

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This Hack will Find a Needle in a Haystack

This Hack will Find a Needle in a Haystack

Ready your cape: this morning’s editing tip is super-hero QA. No fire extinguisher required. You can see the gaps even

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Updated Professional Editorial Standards from Editors Canada

Check out the newer post about the 2024 update to the PES. Editors Canada has just made the third update

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8 Ways a Ruler Rocks Editing

8 Ways a Ruler Rocks Editing

How do you use a ruler when editing? I list 8 uses for rulers at (not of) the editing desk, today

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Checklist for Editing Captions

Checklist for Editing Captions

Captions are a weak link in the quality assurance chain, being something most people skim or skip while reviewing a

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Mark up Title Corrections for Video Using PDF

Mark up Title Corrections for Video Using PDF

Anything you can take a screen shot of can be marked up as a PDF. Here is a quick demo

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Intro to Advanced Acrobatics

Intro to Advanced Acrobatics

This handout is from my presentation at the EAC 2014 conference. Get a printable PDF version here. Mark up any

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Create a Word file from a PDF

Create a Word file from a PDF

You might need to convert a PDF back to text to get a word count, to create the next addition

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Error Rates in Editing: What’s Your Save Percentage? (podcast)

Error Rates in Editing: What’s Your Save Percentage? (podcast)

In this 5 min podcast I explore scientific evidence for what kind of error correction rate is humanly feasible. We’ll look

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