Archive for August, 2010

All you might be giving with large attachments is a mild headache

This entry comes to you while I am on vacation. As I am sure happens to you sometimes, I need to check in occasionally on what is happening back in the office. Broadband internet access is available here, but you have to pay through the nose to get it, as rates are either by the minute or the megabit, and connections are very slow compared to other countries. But I won’t complain about that – as I type, I have a beautiful view of the Mediterranean Sea behind me.

What I wanted to remind everyone of is please be conscious of whom you are sending that large file attachment to and where he or she might be. I had three e-mail messages with 30+MB file attachments in my inbox this week. One of those messages went something like “Oops, ignore that version of the file I sent. Here’s the one I meant to send to you.”

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Acrobat.com Authoring Applications: Best Practices

While we would never presume to tell you exactly how to use Acrobat.com authoring applications, we do think that it may come in handy to have a cheat sheet available when you’d like some help deciding which program to use for a particular task. Buzzword, Tables, Acrobat desktop software, and the new CS Review service all have capabilities that you can use to your greatest advantage; the trick is knowing when to use which. We hope that this chart and the ensuing tips will make these programs–and their unique or shared capabilities–more accessible to you as you work.

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