it is a common practice that people working in AEC commenting on the same PDF file.
However, most of the feasible solution involves with cloud platform and all of them are proprietary software.
I would like share my 2 cents about how to share annotations within the same network / cloud drive
The idea is simple, creating a directory for containing all the annotations created by different users.
The structure may look like this.
Local Server or Cloud Drive/
├──PRJ2026/
│ ├── PRJ2026-Drawings/
│ │ ├── PRJ2026-Drawings_Annotation_Alice.xfpf
│ │ ├── PRJ2026-Drawings_Annotation_Bob.xfpf
│ │ └── PRJ2026-Drawings_Annotation_Charlie.xfpf
│ └── PRJ2026-Drawings.pdf
└── PRJ0000
Users will be able see the update once the directory was modified or in a time interval.
It is also important to maintain the record of comments, users only able to add more information upon it.
e.g
Alice created a new text comment
└── Bob Edit the text comment
└── Charlie remove the text comment
it is a common practice that people working in AEC commenting on the same PDF file.
However, most of the feasible solution involves with cloud platform and all of them are proprietary software.
I would like share my 2 cents about how to share annotations within the same network / cloud drive
The idea is simple, creating a directory for containing all the annotations created by different users.
The structure may look like this.
Local Server or Cloud Drive/
├──PRJ2026/
│ ├── PRJ2026-Drawings/
│ │ ├── PRJ2026-Drawings_Annotation_Alice.xfpf
│ │ ├── PRJ2026-Drawings_Annotation_Bob.xfpf
│ │ └── PRJ2026-Drawings_Annotation_Charlie.xfpf
│ └── PRJ2026-Drawings.pdf
└── PRJ0000
Users will be able see the update once the directory was modified or in a time interval.
It is also important to maintain the record of comments, users only able to add more information upon it.
e.g
Alice created a new text comment
└── Bob Edit the text comment
└── Charlie remove the text comment