Editing from Microsoft Word

Adobe Acrobat X.

That is what I said.

And, no information on this topic is located there.

Hi rd2,

Just to confirm - you say you want to edit text in Adobe Acrobat? ie not Adobe AEM.

The Acrobat forum is at:

- https://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat

They will be able to help your further.

I want to edit text AFTER a file has been transferred from MS to Adobe Acrobat format.  Is this possible or not?

Hi,

nsvsrk wrote...

Hi,

Thanks for responding.

The way I understand the requirement is that the content itself should be maintained in AEM and should be edited in Word editor, from AEM, by double clicking.

Once this requirement is in place, I guess that one should be able to create Word documents in AEM directly.

Thanks,

Rama.

 

If that "pages in AEM should be edited in Word editor" is really the requirement, I wonder why you purchased an AEM license at all...

Technically Word can export HTML, but the markup itself is horrible (at least it was the case when I checked it a few years ago); but it can only export the whole document as HTML, not individual parts. So how would you create headers, footers or individual components? How do you make sure, that the editors follow your corporate identity and your style and design? How do you want to maintain a teaser or a carousel in Word? How embedd references to assets in AEM?

AEM has a quite comfortable editmode (in both classic UI and touch UI), so there is no need at all to use a different editor; AEM is not designed for it, and I never saw or heard of anyone who's ever thought of doing so.

kind regards,
Jörg

Hi,

Thanks for responding.

The way I understand the requirement is that the content itself should be maintained in AEM and should be edited in Word editor, from AEM, by double clicking.

Once this requirement is in place, I guess that one should be able to create Word documents in AEM directly.

Thanks,

Rama.

Hi,

when you say "CMS should allow editing from Microsoft Word", does this mean, (1) that the authors should be able to maintain content of web pages via Word? Or does it just mean, that authors can easily upload Word documents to the AEM?

kind regards,
Jörg

Thanks a lot to all who have responded.

Now I am more knowledgeable on this subject.

Thanks,

Rama.

If you use webdav then you can mount the CRX folders on the local machine as folder. And any document you create/update or delete in that folder will be automatically synced to the AEM repository. With this approach, you can use any editing software for all the document types you want to manage in AEM DAM. However, the only drawback here is that if you want authors or editors to add any custom metadata associated with the document then they will have to login into AEM and then set the metadata in AEM UI itself. 

I do not understand your question of incorporating word editor in AEM. The word processing software are generally desktop software and allow you to edit documents offline. With Google docs you can edit the documents online but then integrating with AEM will be a complex effort.