Review is an essential part of every content creation process. Whether documentation is created for customers, regulators, partners, or internal stakeholders, organizations need an efficient way to gather feedback while maintaining control over content quality and governance. For many review scenarios, review comments are exactly what teams need. A reviewer asks a question, flags a concern,
Review cycles shouldn’t slow your team down, and publishing shouldn’t mean fixing formatting by hand. Fonto 8.18 gives reviewers real tools for handling large volumes of feedback, and delivers faster, more Word-faithful output with support for redline documents. Fonto Review: Handle feedback at scale Large documents attract large numbers of comments. Two new features in
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At Frankfurter Buchmesse, the story that resonated most was not about technology. It was about transformation. When Peter Portela, Director of Standards Product Development at the American Welding Society (AWS), took the Innovation Stage alongside Lars Schlatermund from Ebcont and Maarten van Vulpen from Fonto, he described a challenge that many standards organizations, associations, publishers
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Every content team wants the same thing: a publishing process they can trust. Reviewers need clear feedback, authors expect their content to appear exactly as intended, and organizations rely on seamless integrations to keep critical workflows moving. Fonto 8.17 strengthens every step of that process. This release delivers a smoother review experience, more accurate and consistent publishing output, and deeper
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For most of their history, standards have had a clear destination: the PDF. Write the content, reach consensus, and publish the document. Job done. But the world that consumes standards has changed. Compliance is no longer primarily a human reading a document and making a judgment call. It is engineers’ querying requirements across a portfolio. It is procurement
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There is a question that sounds almost too simple for a professional conference: what is a standard, actually? Not in a formal, definitional sense. In a practical one. What is it that a standards organization produces and hands to the world? The instinctive answer is a document. A carefully structured, rigorously reviewed document. The result of months or
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For decathlete Sven Roosen, 2026 feels like a fresh start. Not because his ambitions have changed, they remain sky-high, but because the way he views his sport has fundamentally shifted. After a year marked by physical setbacks and mental lessons, he begins the new season with a clear focus: build, enjoy, and trust the process.
Fonto 8.16 focuses on what matters most in day-to-day content creation: reliability, smooth collaboration, and a more intuitive review experience. This release builds on recent innovations like Suggestion Mode, refining them with real-world feedback to make workflows more predictable and efficient. At the same time, we’re strengthening the foundation of the Fonto platform, from more robust concurrent editing and improved
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In a world where everyone feels compelled to put AI on the first slide, Patrice Canonne opened his recent webinar with a wink, and then got very real, very fast: standards are changing, and the organizations behind them need to modernize how standards are authored, structured, and delivered if they want to stay relevant (and useful). “The
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Fonto 8.15 is a milestone release that brings reviewing and collaboration to the next level, while continuing to strengthen the performance, stability, and cohesion of the Fonto platform. Fonto Editor & Review We are beyond excited to announce the initial release of Suggestion Mode. We have worked tirelessly for over a year to add a new mode that
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