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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 all the changes were correctly

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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 the Pro too, and probably

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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 when the table is this

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Updated Professional Editorial Standards from Editors Canada

Editors Canada has just made the third update to their Professional Editorial Standards (PES), reflecting the digital and accessibility issues that are the editor’s reality today. There

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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 in my Canadian, Eh? column at

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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 document. This makes checking captions

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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 showing how to mark up

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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 file you can print to/save

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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 when source files have been

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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 at industry standards for copyeditors

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