Browser-based review for Illustrator: share a link, collect pinned comments, and read and resolve them in Illustrator's Comments panel.
- Illustrator 26.0, Adobe MAX, Oct 2021
- Illustrator 27.0, Adobe MAX, 18 Oct 2022
- By Illustrator 27.4 (March 2023)
- A web browser; no Adobe ID for public links
With Illustrator 26.0, announced at Adobe MAX in October 2021, designers could share a cloud document as a link and get feedback without exporting files. Reviewers opened the link in a browser and pinned comments or highlighted objects and artboards, with no Illustrator, subscription or Adobe ID needed. Their comments arrived in Illustrator's Comments panel to read, reply to and resolve. Adobe called this Share for commenting.
At Adobe MAX on 18 October 2022 the idea grew into Share for Review (beta) in Illustrator 27.0, which added local documents and fixed version snapshots that a designer refreshes on the same link. The beta label was gone by Illustrator 27.4 in March 2023.
What I did
- I was the lead developer for the feature in my team, leading a team of two engineers.
- I led development of Share for Review from the first prototype through private betas and the public beta at Adobe MAX 2022 to general availability.
- Within my team, I managed, led, developed and delivered commenting on cloud documents (Share for commenting), a flagship feature of Illustrator 26.0.