Posts in Category "News and Views"

Flying on Home

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (0)

We all knew this day would come, and it’s finally here: the day the Acrobat.com blog heads back to the home farm, into the welcoming pages of our mother product. Yes, that’s right: we’re joining forces with the Acrobat blog! The way we see it, we’re all one big family: Acrobat and the online services, working together to help you and your team work together. That being the case, it’s time to round up the ducklings and bring all of our future posts about the Acrobat.com services to roost at the Acrobat blog; you’ll find us quacking contentedly over there about each of these services within the larger context of events and announcements for all of Acrobat. This way, you can get all your Acrobat-related information in one place. Just follow us over to the Acrobat blog and subscribe to our feed for the same fresh fodder all about the happy Acrobat family.

 

Footage from the vault

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (0)

I just dug up an old interview that I did with Dave O., one of our fine engineers, a couple of months ago; somehow, it never made it up here to the blog. Now, in full original glory, here is Dave speaking about Acrobat.com and how he uses it. Enjoy!

Introducing CreatePDF for iOS

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (2)

Earlier this year, we rolled out the Adobe CreatePDF application for your Android devices. Now, those of you with iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touch devices will rejoice at the news: If you bring your iPad with you anywhere you go, you now have the power to create, view and share rich, high-quality PDF files from wherever you are, whether or not you’re near a computer. No iPad? No problem. You can just download the app to your iPhone or iPod Touch and use whichever device you like. Take a look at this video to see a quick demo of the app on an iPad:

Click here to see the video on AdobeTV

Head on over to the iTunes App Store today to download the application for your iOS device – and then leave us a comment below to let us know how you like it! To go straight to the app store, just click here.

 

 

 

 

Oh, Happy Day! (Notifications and more in FormsCentral)

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (1)

We’ve all seen the old movies: The scene opens on the protagonist, sitting next to the telephone. Just staring. At the phone. Waiting for it to ring. When it does eventually buzz, the hero or heroine will certainly have an Important Conversation, in which Important Information will be imparted. However, no one – not the audience, not the hero – knows just when that phone might ring. For all we know, our hero might spend the whole night just waiting by the phone and never hear it ring once. He can’t leave the house for fear he’ll miss the call.

Well, don’t wait by the phone any longer. Everyone, you’re hearing it here first: Email notifications have arrived to FormsCentral. Let’s say that again, a bit differently: When new responses are submitted to your form, you’ll get an email notification. No more waiting in the browser, refreshing your screen every two minutes.

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Come a little closer: What’s new in FormsCentral (part 2)

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (1)

Last week, we looked at the new Page Skip Logic feature in FormsCentral. Today, let’s examine another new addition to the service: Summary reports. These beauties are now built into your forms once data starts flowing in; without exporting any data or fussing around with other spreadsheet programs, you can view your form’s responses graphically. Today, we’ll go through the details of what these summaries can do for you in FormsCentral.

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Come a little closer: What’s new in FormsCentral (part 1)

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (3)

We feel very lucky to be hearing from all of you about what you need in a good cloud-based forms authoring and distribution service. As you may have read yesterday, we’ve recently been able to implement several brand new features that you have been asking about for some time. In several installments over the next week or two, we’ll take a closer look at these features and what you can now newly do with Adobe FormsCentral!

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Bring your data to life

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (0)

Today’s post comes straight from product manager Randy  Swineford; he’s got some exciting news to share with us about FormsCentral, and we think you’ll be excited to hear it. Read on for details!

 

Since we introduced our online forms service, FormsCentral, we’ve seen all sorts of organizations – from businesses and educational institutions to nonprofits – take advantage of the simplicity and speed our service provides to design, distribute, collect, and analyze data from HTML forms and surveys. Customers have been using FormsCentral for everything from grant applications and satisfaction surveys to class and event registration, as well as research. With the help of FormsCentral, they are moving their organizations forward, maintaining brand integrity, and creating worthwhile experiences for their constituencies. What’s more, they did all this without having to call the IT department.

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SendNow: It’s a piece of cake

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (1)

In the Adobe office, we really like cake. Chocolate, red velvet, raspberry-marzipan-coconut swirl… you name it, we’ll eat it. But with all these over-the-top flavors we’re often tempted by, it can be easy to forget that a basic chiffon can be exactly right: classic, simple, and elegant, without any distracting additions to detract from the satisfaction of a familiar flavor done well.

So here we are to write an open letter to our dear old favorite SendNow Basic plan: Dear friend, no, you won’t manage our finances or do our dry cleaning. But you need not be fancy to require proof of delivery and download, or to require sign-in for each file you send. Security, as far as we’re concerned, should be expected of any vanilla cake; you shouldn’t have to add chocolate chips and lemon custard just to protect your own documents.

Though you may be simple, we can still dress you up: you’re happy to don that professional look by allowing for personal branding, which is an amazing feat for such an easy-to-use service. For those who run a small business, the ability to apply a logo to your clean appearance makes you a worthy choice for sending files to clients and customers.

Not only do you look the part; you play the part by offering 5GB of storage capacity, 200 possible recipients for each file transaction, and an impressive 500 downloads per file. Show us any other basic cake that can do all that!

SendNow Basic, we’re proud to include you in our tiered offerings at Acrobat.com – and at only $9.99 each month, you’re not too far out of reach. Thank you for being our simple and elegant chiffon cake, and not a chocolate-banana-hazelnut-cream pie.

A little cloudy humor…

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (0)

Since it’s summer in San Francisco (it’s endlessly foggy in this city), and since we’re a cloud-based service here, everything seems to be in the clouds today. We thought we’d try to lighten the mood with a relevant cartoon:
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Enjoy!

-The cloud-covered team at Acrobat.com

 

SendNow: Now supporting your brand

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (2)

 

Almost a month ago, we announced some exciting new enhancements that were on the way for Adobe SendNow. Today, we’re happy to let you know that one installment of these planned enhancements has arrived!

Now, paid subscribers will be able to upload their own personal or company logo to their SendNow account to brand all correspondence from within the service—at no extra cost.

When you send that beautifully crafted (and 400 MB) proposal to a client, you can make sure that she knows it’s from you: just apply your logo to the notification email and the download page, ensuring that all of the interaction that she has with that file will be entirely seamless, and will reflect the polished and professional manner in which you always work. Why should sending a file restrict your style? These are your files; use your brand.

Ready to get started? Just sign into your account at SendNow and upload your logo with just a few clicks!