Posts in Category "Workspaces and Sharing"

Flying on Home

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

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!

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

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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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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Sharing Files with Acrobat.com

At Acrobat.com, we’re all about sharing. We love to share. We love to help you share. We love to share with you that we love to help you share. We could share our feelings about sharing for hours. Luckily for you, we won’t do that (much) and would rather spend some time letting you know about the updated file sharing mechanism in this latest release of Acrobat.com. Now you won’t have to share for hours; it’ll only take you moments.

We have already covered sharing Acrobat.com Workspaces and managing members, so let’s focus on sharing individual files.

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New Adobe TV Video: Introduction to Acrobat.com Workspaces

We have just posted a 7-minute video on Adobe TV that is an introduction to creating, working with and sharing an Acrobat.com Workspace. If you haven’t had an opportunity to create a Shared Workspace with your own Acrobat.com account, or you would just like to find out a little bit more, then watch this video to see how you can get started. You can view that video at this page on Adobe TV right now.

Managing Shared Workspace Team Members

It has been almost a week since we launched Workspaces with Acrobat.com – along with a whole host of other updates for sharing, collaborating on and managing files online. The response and feedback has been great – thanks!

As a project team leader, there a number of people from Adobe, from external agencies and from other partners that I need to collaborate with on documents in a Shared Workspace. Fortunately, a new capability in Acrobat.com’s file organizer makes it easier for me (and you) to manage all those team members.

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Keeping Your Acrobat.com World Organized: Understanding Tags

In Acrobat.com’s file organizer is a section in the left pane called “Tags”. This is the capability formerly known as “Collections”. “Why change the name?”, you may ask. Well, user feedback is a wonderful agent of change, and that was the case here. Tags act as a meta-organizer for all of your files: you may assign one or more tags to a document in order to associate it with a certain searchable category. Tags are meant to be personal, and allow you to focus on the right files and information. They are unique to you and your Acrobat.com account. So feel free to use whatever and as many tags as you feel necessary. Let’s explore how they can work for you…

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Acrobat.com Takes a New Step Today — Workspaces.

Rick Treitman – Director of Product Management for Acrobat.com and Entrepreneur in Residence at Adobe – introduces us to the latest upgrade to Acrobat.com with Workspaces

Years ago, when we first started working on Buzzword, I was interviewing a high school English teacher. I asked her if she shared documents with her colleagues and whether or not most of that sharing occurred in her e-mail. Her response was, “You should see my inbox, it’s nothing but paper clips.”

Our goal is to help you get more done faster by moving collaboration out of your e-mail and into an Acrobat.com Shared Workspace. Sorting your inbox on date to find the latest version of a co-authored document is not ideal. E-mail was never intended to be a content management system, but for most of us, it’s certainly being pressed into that role.

With Acrobat.com, we’ve been concentrating on helping individuals work together: I invite you to my document. But, of course, most of us work not with one or two others, but with groups or teams. So Workspaces are for helping groups of people share groups of documents. Now, by creating a Workspace, you and your extended team can share and collaborate on a set of project files rather than sharing them one-by-one.

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Unity – Bringing it all together

It’s been 2 years since the Virtual Ubiquity team joined Adobe and Acrobat.com. And we’re marking the anniversary with our most ambitious release to date. Adobe veterans and the former Virtual Ubiquity team have brought their technologies together to merge our online services into a much more cohesive whole. And we think you’ll be pleased with the result. We’re bringing it all together.

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