The Complex Litigator, the popular legal blog, has just published a wonderful post on using SendNow to move massive files back and forth; H. Scott readily admits to having “wanted to see if I could make [SendNow] choke” on files of over 100MB. We’re glad to tell you that he was thwarted, and that the files “were received without a hitch”. For the full article, go take a look at the Complex Litigator: http://bit.ly/gplkOn
We are so pleased to hand today’s blog entry over to one of our Product Managers here at Acrobat.com: Amy Wang is here to speak with us about Adobe SendNow from the perspective of a product manager. Read on, and enjoy! Thanks for the insights, Amy.
With Adobe SendNow, our goal is to provide a hassle-free way to get files from one place to another securely and reliably from wherever you are.
Amy Wang, SendNow Product Manager
Think back to the last time you were working with a coworker to put together a project (or a presentation or a report). She had raw data to send to you; you had to get some charts to her; she suddenly remembered that she had to send you the transcripts for an interview; and then you almost forgot to send her the sample images from the photo shoot.
Let’s stop here for a moment and count the number of emails that this has already required of you both: four different emails, full of content and heavy attachments. Consider the scope of this project if you add one person to the team; now add another. What if the report has to include summaries of previous reports? Do you still have the emails (and attachments) from two months ago? “Well,” you say, “let me just go into my inbox and search around for two or three hours to find the right attachments and make sure they’re the right versions of the files.” Maybe you’re incurring the sort of rage that spawns blog articles like this one. What if you’re emailing files to someone who uses a filter to block attachments?
No thanks. But what if you were using Adobe SendNow? (Cue the collective sigh of relief.)
We hate to toot our own horn here, but if our horn were a 2 GB file, we’d want to toot it with Adobe SendNow. SendNow is Acrobat.com’s new platform for transferring files from one place to another without clogging inboxes or sending extraneous messages back and forth to check on the status of a sent file. Now with a one-stop landing, you can find all of your sent and received files in one place, and track the progress of your active files. Here’s a collection of our favorite features.
Ladies and gentlemen, the moment we’ve all been waiting for…
Our new Adobe SendNow and CreatePDF online services are now live!
For all of you who have struggled in vain to send each other emails with cumbersome file attachments; for all of you who have been wishing for an easy way to not just create but also combine high-quality PDF files; and for all of you who have read our teaser posts on SendNow and CreatePDF…THEY’RE HERE! Starting today, when you go to the home pages for Acrobat.com, SendNow or CreatePDF, you’ll have these new services at your fingertips for sending those pesky large files to anyone with a valid email address, and for creating and combining PDF files quickly and easily.
We’ll post more details about these services very soon; but right now, we’d like you to read more about their release over on the Acrobat team blog while we go download the CreatePDF desktop printer and send and track a bunch of files (just because we know how fantastic it is to do so in such an easy way). Otherwise, run – don’t walk – over to the Acrobat.com, SendNow or CreatePDF home pages and get all the details on what these new technologies can do for you.
Another year, another MAX, another few days of meeting and talking to customers, partners and co-workers about all the fantastic things they do with Adobe technology, and indeed, the challenges they face in what they do. One of my favorite things about my work is sitting down with a customer and brainstorming with them on how Adobe technology might be able to help them get their work done, including showing the new services at Adobe SendNow. Or in the case of one individual, impress her boss!
Another customer I spoke to already had a PDF-based “workflow” in place for collecting edits on documents and artwork from colleagues. The only issue – those colleagues were using Acrobat to edit the actual text in the PDF files! Although Acrobat is capable of doing that, sometimes you need to use the right tool for the right job, and in this case editing the actual text wasn’t the best option, as it becomes difficult to identify who had changed what, and if there was a major text edit, doing so may change the design too.
Instead, I suggested she try two things. One was to use the commenting tools in Acrobat (and Adobe Reader when enabled for commenting) and collect the comments from others by using Shared Reviews with Acrobat.com: IT resources were limited and unable to help with setting up servers and access controls – Acrobat.com to the rescue there!
Secondly, if all they wanted was to allow people to edit the text of the document, I suggested using Adobe Buzzword to allow others to collaboratively author and comment on the copy. Then when it was ready, they could easily place the final copy in to their Adobe InDesign CS5 layouts, convert the document to a high-quality PDF file, and send out for Shared Review as described above.
The response to those suggestions to use Acrobat.com with Acrobat? That they were sure to make many people in her company very happy. Sweet!
It’s been a great week at MAX for the Acrobat Solutions team and Adobe. For those of you that were there, THANK YOU! You will be able to watch the recordings of the sessions and keynotes on Adobe TV.
Thrilled. Excited. Elated. Overjoyed. Enthusiastic. All words we could use to describe how everyone on the Acrobat Solutions team feels about the announcement today of two new online services: Adobe SendNow for exchanging and tracking documents online, and Adobe CreatePDF, our new online PDF creation and combining service, along with the powerful desktop duo of Adobe Acrobat X and Adobe Reader X.
As our world becomes more connected, the need to be able to exchange documents quickly – and retrieve and view those files reliably no matter where we are – is critical to what we do. But even though we have access to great technology like Adobe SendNow and Adobe CreatePDF, what we hear from you is that the technology should be simple to use without fuss. Let’s face it: I, you and all those we work and live with are busier than ever (for example, I’m writing this at 11pm while my family sleeps). You want – no, need – to focus on the task at hand and get your work done. These releases from Adobe will help you achieve that, and they will all be available for you soon.
Stay tuned for more information, sneak peeks, availability and updates here. In the meantime, jump over to the official release announcement on the Acrobat family blog to find out more.
Welcome to the next generation.
Meet one of Acrobat.com’s new services: Adobe SendNow. The new file sharing service will be available beginning in early November—which means you still have two weeks to wait until you can take it for a spin. To tide you over until then, here’s a quick overview of some of the features you can expect to see:
Send large files, simply and securely
Here is the new one-stop destination for sending and receiving large files among colleagues and coworkers. This concept should be familiar by now—allowing for multiple people to access a single document from any number of locations—but SendNow’s delivery is all new. Using just the one service, you can:
- Send large files from your computer to one or many recipients.
- View files that you’ve sent off in the past, and see when and to whom they were sent.
- Keep an eye out for files that have been sent to you.
From a central dashboard, you can now manage your sent documents and download others, all with just a few simple clicks. If the documents contain sensitive information, you can require your recipients to sign in before viewing the file, and can set a particular time frame in which the file can be downloaded. You’ll also have a record of all of your file transactions—sent and received—so you won’t lose track of who’s seen which file and when.
File tracking
That’s right, people; now you can check on the status of your sent files and see which recipients have downloaded them (and which slackers – uh, we mean recipients – haven’t).
File forwarding
Have you already shared the file, and realized that you forgot to add someone to the list? No problem. Locate the file in the “Sent Files” section and simply forward it with a single click.
Beyond that…well, you’ll just have to wait and see! For now, take the next two weeks to get fired up; soon you’ll reach new heights of shared achievement with SendNow.
