Making feedback welcome

Giving feedback is essential to successful collaboration on work and following our motto of ‘everyone gets a red pen’ we give you exactly that to add comments to a proof.

The red pen proofing tool lets you add a comment to a proof.

Use the red pen tool to place a reference pin on the proof, write your comment and if you need to, add an attachment as well – we encrypt all comments and attachments.

Click to add a pin. Click and drag to draw a line. Click and drag diagonally to draw a box.

Highlighting text on the proof is done with the highlight pen tool.

If the proof contains text, you can use the highlight pen tool to highlight text on the proof - the text will automatically populate into a comment for you.

You can draw on the proof page using the drawing pen tool.

Use the drawing pen tool to visually describe your feedback by drawing arrows, circles, scribbles...whatever you need to go with your comment.

You can add a comment with no markup too.

Add a general comment that has no markup to the proof too. Perfect for saying “You’ve done an amazing job!” for example.

Collaborating

Of course, sometimes it’s easier to agree with what another proofer has said but if you need to add to the conversation, simply reply to the comment. You can even @ mention other reviewers too.

Your pins can be shifted if you click and drag them.

Uncluttered proofing

The work that you’re checking and reviewing is most important on the proofing screen so you’ll see that we hide the comment pane away once you’ve added a comment and that the red pins you’re placing on the page are subtle (have you discovered the reveal of the comment when you hover on the pin yet?). No complicated distractions while you’re proofing.

Finished yet?

When you’re finishing proofing, look to the bottom right of the proof screen and click the green button to say you’re done.

PageProof will display one of these three buttons depending on your proofing role and whether comments have been marked as to-dos.

Nice and easy, just like PageProof.