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LiberGM
Helpful | Level 5
9 years ago
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How to keep comments between versions?

Hello,   I'd like to know if there is any option to keep comments between versions. I use to share images (web designs) with my clients. They add comments in these files so we can have a collaborat...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    9 years ago
    It isnt possible no, sorry, but its a good suggestion - I'll make sure its passed on.

    As a possible work around have you looked at Paper? You can comment and tag individual parts of files and then simply add the new version underneath?

    www.dropbox.com/paper
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Ed
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9 years ago

Hey LiberGM

 

This is a pretty interesting workflow and I totally get your point (clients will be like "where are the previous comments I made?") and explaining that this is a new file and where the previous comments were may be just as painful as working on the iterations :)

 

 I'll send this feedback to our team behind 'comments' to have it on their radar. Thanks for sharing!

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Emme
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

I know this is an old post, but I'm running into the same issue. I want to show my team mate that their comments have been addressed by seeing the new design with the comments, but it looks like it's either one or the other even though the pages of the document are the same.

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