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Do you provide professional services to clients or others outside your company?

If your work involves managing projects and exchanging files with clients or others outside your company, then you’re invited to participate in a paid research interview. Documents you exchange may include contracts, legal documents, proposals, offer letters, marketing collateral, project plans, product documentation, and various kinds of agreements (e.g., financial, non-disclosure, etc.). You may work with consumers or businesses of any size.
During each interview, participants will discuss the process for interacting with external parties and the kinds of documents that they exchange. Participants will also evaluate some new product ideas and provide their opinions about them. Interviews will be done individually, not in groups.

We expect this to be an interesting, low-stress opportunity to talk about how you do your work and help evaluate some product ideas.
Study details:
        Format: Phone or in-person conversation
        Compensation: $100
        When: 1.5 hours, Aug 24-31, 2009

If you are interested in participating, please click the link below and fill out our screener.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=kZDmO4Qlf5rKWD5tDwRKvw_3d_3d

**Participants will NOT be asked to disclose any confidential information.**

If the study is a good match, we will contact you by phone or email to schedule a time.

Thank you for your interest!
Acrobat.com Team

Last week Adobe announced the availability of Adobe Reader 9. This new version of Reader has several exciting new features and capabilities. Steve Gottwals, product manager for Adobe Reader, did an extensive review of the new features of Reader 9 in his blog entry. From the Adobe website you can download a copy of Adobe Reader 9.0 now.

Adobe Reader 9 provides many simple ways to work with Acrobat.com. It includes the Acrobat.com desktop application built on the Adobe AIR technology. The Acrobat.com desktop application provides an easy way of interacting with Acrobat.com by dragging and dropping files and folders from your local computer directly into your Acrobat.com account, and browsing, previewing, sharing or publishing files directly from your desktop computer. The application can be minimized to a widget on your desktop providing one-click access to the Acrobat.com services.

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Thank you for trying out our Adobe Share beta service. We are committed to building products and technologies that will make people work better together. From time to time, we conduct live interviews to better understand your workflows and needs. We are currently recruiting for such research and we would greatly appreciate your participation!

Here are the details:
- Where: Adobe’s San Francisco office for local participants or via phone/internet for remote participants
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Format: 1:1 interviews with our researcher
- If selected to participate, you will receive a $100 gift certificate for Amazon as a token of our appreciation.

If you are interested in participating, please click this link and fill out our screener: http://www.adobe.com/go/hsscreener.
If you are selected, we will contact you by phone or email.

Thank you for your interest!
Adobe User Research

It has been a really long time since we last spoke to you. The Share team has been busy adding new features and improving performance of Share Beta. And today we released a new version of Share with a whole host of new features.

The first thing you will notice when you login to the Share Beta service is the new button bar at the top.

We have eliminated the Home tab which was in the previous version of the service to give more focus to your documents in the Share library. The three buttons are the primary tasks supported by the Share service: Uploading files, Sharing files and Converting Files to PDFs. Yes, creating PDFs!ﾠ

Now you can convert documents to Adobe PDF using Share! Adobe PDF is the de facto standard for more secure, dependable electronic information exchange — recognized by industries and governments around the world. By converting your files to Adobe PDF you can ensure that recipients will be able to view your files regardless of platform and application availability. To convert a file to PDF simply select the file from your desktop or by dragging-and-dropping a file already in your Share library.

Once the PDF conversion is completed you can directly Share the converted file or copy the URL or copy the embed code for the file. Share supports converting to PDF all the popular formats including: Microsoft Office files, Open Office files, text files, images and postscript files.

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Steven Gemmen created a really cool AIR application called “Handout” using the Share APIs. Check it out http://initapp.com/2007/10/26/new-air-app-handout-powered-by-adobe-share/.

The waits over and we are sharing more! We have started sending out invites to join the service, by sharing files through the Share …off course. Everyone who added their email address to our waiting list should receive an invite by the end of this week. General sign-up for Share will be opened up next week.

Enjoy Share and continue to give us your feedback about the service.

It has been a couple of weeks since we last spoke to you. Thank you all for using the service and providing valuable feedback. Since the last time, we have updated the Share Beta service with a few enhancements and bug fixes. In particular the embedded previewer now allows embedding of image files (including jpeg, gif, png) on websites, wikis or blogs.

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In addition we are also adding a full page toggle mode for the embedded previewer and other UI controls like zoom-in and scroll based on your feedback. These are particularly important when reading embedded documents.

A couple of features that the team is working on are:

• Adding the ability to convert documents to PDF (including Microsoft Office files, ODF, etc.)
• Easily searching and finding documents using the document properties and content.

More on these and additional features later…

Enjoy Share..

Shahram Javey, engineering manager for the Share team here at Adobe, built a very cool service using the Share REST APIs. The service allows accessing your Share Library, viewing documents and sharing documents all from your iPhone. Check it out at http://web.sharepdf.com. He talks about this in his blog.

This is really exciting and highlights the extensibility of the service. Shahram was able to take the vanilla Share APIs and build a prototype using these APIs in a just a couple of days. This is exactly the types of scenarios we have envisioned in opening up the service for use by developers and third parties service providers.

It was last Tuesday (Oct 2nd) that we unveiled the Share service at the keynote address at MAX. Wow! What a busy past week it was, we got a lot of great coverage in the press and the blogosphere. Want to thank everyone who have started using Share, sent us feedback on enhancements they would like to see in the service. Also special thanks to those who have expressed an interest in getting an account on Share, we will be sending out additional invites soon.

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Ever search for an email attachment with little success? Work on a document only to find out it wasn’t the latest version? Couldn’t send a file by email because the size of the file was too large? We all have these challenges too…We need an easy and simple way to share important documents internally and externally.

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