Adobe Reader 8

Check server status

Check the server status in a shared PDF or in the Review Tracker to determine if you can connect to the comment server.

Check status in a shared PDF

The Status button  in the document message bar indicates whether the last attempt to connect to the comment server was successful.

  1. Open the shared PDF.
  2. In the upper-right corner of the document, the Status button displays either the last attempt successful icon , the last attempt unsuccessful icon , or the attempting to connect icon .

Check status in the Review Tracker

  1. Choose View > Review Tracker.
  2. On the left, click the plus sign (+) next to Review Servers to expand the list.

    The green icon  next to the server name indicates that the last synchronization attempt was successful. The red icon  indicates that the last synchronization attempt was unsuccessful. The server may be disconnected from the network, it may have problems writing data to the disk, or it may have some other problem. Contact your network administrator for help.