Archive for March, 2011

Adobe CreatePDF or Acrobat.com: Which service to use?

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (2)

By now, you’ve had time to check out Adobe CreatePDF and see what it can do—namely, create PDF files, combine files into a single PDF, and even print to PDF from your desktop applications. By now, therefore, you’ve surely noticed that Acrobat.com is feeling a bit neglected; while you’re still happily sharing your workspaces and collaborating on documents with Tables and Buzzword (and we’re sure that you are), it’s been a while since you’ve used the Acrobat.com service for creating your PDF files. Both of these services—Adobe CreatePDF and Acrobat.com—allow you to make PDF files from your documents; so how can you choose between them? The short answer: You don’t have to! Use them both! The longer answer… well, read on and see.

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SendNow: Get Creative

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (0)

Okay, okay, we get it: you’ve learned the concept that makes Adobe SendNow so great. Choose a file, choose a recipient, send the file—all done, it was easy, never worked better or more quickly. It doesn’t take a super smartypants to master SendNow’s simple (and simply beautiful) interface, and it’s not exactly rocket science to see that it’s probably the smoothest and easiest way to send huge files from one place to another. But wait: SendNow’s behavior is more than interface-deep. Here, check out how to use SendNow to present your material (including all those audio and video files) to clients and colleagues, even when you’ve got multiple files to share or have to control the mode of presentation.

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FormsCentral Tutorial, Part 3: The form’s data and what to do with it

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (9)

Okay, everyone, this is it; the moment we’ve been waiting for from the beginning. We’ve created a form. We’ve customized each part of it, tested the whole thing, tailored the messaging for our respondents, and distributed it. People everywhere have filled it out and submitted responses—from their iPads and Android phones to desktop computers and laptops. But why did we create the form in the first place? The obvious answer: to get answers. The submissions come flying in from these from submissions and wind up in the FormsCentral “View Responses” tab, neatly organized in a data table. Let’s take a look at our data and muck around with it; there’s plenty to do with our responses, and we’ll try a few of those things in this post.

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FormsCentral Tutorial, Part 2: Testing and Distributing Your Form

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (0)

Hey, great job making that form the other day with Adobe FormsCentral . I bet when you tested it out you were really excited to see it in action. Wait, what? You haven’t tested it yet? Well, hop to it! And while we’re at it, I have a few extra tips for you when you’re ready to distribute the final product.

Remember Monday, when we talked about how each form you make is entirely under your control? That refers not only to the look and feel of the form (the text formatting, the color of the page, even the layout!), but also—to an extent—to the experience your form respondents will have with the form. When you’re done creating and formatting your form and you’re ready to send it out to make its way in the world, don’t go straight to the “Distribute” tab; use the “Test” tab first. By choosing to test your form before opening it up to responses, you’ll be giving yourself the chance to go through your form and fill it out exactly as your respondents will; your experience and theirs will be identical.

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FormsCentral Tutorial, Part 1: Creating the Form

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (0)

Now that you’ve had some time to check out the Adobe FormsCentral service and poke around the form-building environment, let’s get to talking details about how best to use it. Over the next few days, you’ll see some posts come up here that dive into some of the features of FormsCentral. Today, we’ll talk about creating your form and the tools that’ll help you do it; next week, we’ll carry on with testing and distributing your form, and finally we’ll take a look at analyzing all the data you garner over the course of your form’s life. For now, read on for the down-low on form creation in FormsCentral.  Continue reading…

Psst! Stellar article on SendNow + Acrobat X

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (2)

Just a little note to alert everyone to this rad article over on the Assistive Technology blog featuring the integration of Adobe SendNow and Adobe Acrobat X. The two are “perfect together” – but I’ll let the Assistive Tech article do the talking:

http://bit.ly/gpdViQ

 

What are your thoughts on the SendNow integration in Adobe Acrobat X? Do you use it? Let us know how it works for you by commenting below; we always want to hear your stories.