With Adobe Acrobat, the company is streamlining and accelerating collaboration across project teams with reliable, more secure documents in PDF. Millions of technical drawings and specification documents created by Movares teams in the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland must be shared, reviewed, and revised on an ongoing basis. By implementing Adobe Acrobat, Movares is able to maintain the visual fidelity of key technical drawings and specification documents. Adobe Acrobat allows large, dispersed Movares teams to share and comment on documents.

Adobe Acrobat also protects sensitive materials from unauthorized access or tampering using digital signatures, encryption, and password protection. Permissions settings limit who can print, copy, or change documents. Movares preserves documents electronically by adopting the reliable, proven PDF/A standard for document archiving. The company appreciates the ease of packaging and deploying Acrobat X throughout the firm.

To learn more about how Movares is using Adobe Acrobat, click here.

Tune in to learn how using Acrobat X with SharePoint enables organizations to accelerate projects and collaborate more efficiently using the new check-in, check-out function of PDF files for reviewing and editing shared documents.

These sample chapters from the book ought to pique your interest:

• Adding Links to an Acrobat Page: Learn how to add links to your own PDF document pages. Easily send users to other pages in the document, view a Web page, play a movie, and more.
• Adobe Acrobat X for Windows and Macintosh: Creating PDF Files: Learn how to convert many common file types to PDF, scan paper documents directly into PDF, convert Web pages to PDF files, and combine several PDF files into a single document.

You can order Adobe Acrobat X for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide online today from Adobe Press, an imprint of Peachpit. The Acrobat X VQS was written by long-time Acrobat enthusiast, trainer and author John Deubert, who has authored several previous Acrobat books that you can find here. If you’re an Acrobat User Community member you can take advantage of this special discount.
All the authors of the VQS guides are writers and editors with extensive, real-world knowledge of and expertise in Adobe products. Some are even former Adobe employees. Be sure to keep an eye on the Acrobat blog, follow the Acrobat Twitter handle (@Acrobat), and visit the recently launched Acrobat IT Resource Center to hear more about the latest and greatest Acrobat resources!

In this quick overview, Lori outlines the Acrobat X Suite – what are the products and how they can be useful for Acrobat users. Learn how to move your business communications from static to dynamic.

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Beginning Wednesday, April 20th and running for a week, any Twitter user who ReTweets any of our ‘ReTweet this Today’ posts will be entered into a drawing to win a copy of the new Acrobat X Suite, valued at $1,199. It really is as simple as that. Acrobat X Suite makes it easy. You get Acrobat X Pro, Photoshop CS5, Captivate 7, Presenter 7, LiveCycle Designer CS2 and Adobe Media Encoder CS5 in a single suite that opens the door to a new way to communicate. One of the most diverse and useful pieces of business software on the market can be yours just by Retweeting our very own @Acrobat Twitter account!
Be sure to pay attention to the Acrobat account for your chances to RT, and follow us for more information and of course winner announcements!

The contest opens 10 a.m., Wednesday, April 20th, 2011, and closes 2 p.m., Wednesday, April 27th, 2011. The prize drawing will occur on or before 5 p.m., April 27th, 2011, with the winner announcement occurring that day as well. The drawings are open to residents in North America only.

PlayBook users will have access to advanced features in  Adobe Reader including Touch-based gestures for efficient navigation and zoom in the PDF, Page Navigator interface for fast navigation within large files, accelerometer support and File manager for quick access to PDF files on the PlayBook tablet.

You can learn more about the Adobe and RIM news here.

Also, learn more ways you can view and interact with PDF documents on the go, by visiting: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/features.html

Anuj Gupta, Product Manager, Acrobat Solutions Group

But what we did was simply meet a growing trend, yet raise the bar at the same time. It’s pretty clear that the better you represent your company and yourself, the greater the likelihood of winning the new client, landing the big contract or getting buy-in from management for your idea. In fact, more and more business professionals and knowledge workers in small to medium sized businesses recognize the power high-impact presentations and interactive content have on customers, prospects and colleagues. Just being able to incorporate digital media in presentations amplifies your ideas. Here are some plain truths from our recent research:

• 45% of knowledge workers share digital photos for work at least once a month

• 27% of knowledge workers share digital video files for at least once a month

• Among Adobe Acrobat customers 63% share digital photos for work at least once a month, while 26% share digital video for work during the same period. So your competition is doing it. How about you?

Acrobat X Suite makes it easy. You get Acrobat X Pro, Photoshop CS5, Captivate 7, Presenter 7, LiveCycle Designer CS2 and Adobe Media Encoder CS5 in a single suite that opens the door to a new way to communicate. With Acrobat X Suite you can:

• Edit and insert photos: easily create engaging business communications; deliver engineering design documents with embedded images and drawings.

• Create multimedia screen captures and demos: build product or web demos; author interactive presentations; deliver self-service, interactive training materials.

• Add audio to presentations: create self-running presentations with audio voice-over from PowerPoint slide decks.

• Edit and share video: create product collateral with interactive materials; insert customer testimonial videos.

• Create dynamic, interactive forms: build new employee forms, conference registrations, invoices, order forms, purchase orders, or timesheets.

• Package and share information in PDF Portfolios: organize multiple types of content into polished PDF Portfolios for customer/employee welcome kits, RFIs/RFPs, marketing & event kits, case documents, design reviews, project summaries, and more.

So what are you waiting for? There’s no better time than now to try Acrobat X Suite. Start moving your business communications from static to dynamic with this free trial here. Also, take look at a new AdobeTV show called “What’s Inside Acrobat X Suite,” a collection of how-to tutorials. And don’t miss Wednesday’s eSeminar: “Introducing the Acrobat X Suite,” learn how to move your business communications from static to dynamic.

Up your game with the Suite!

Chris French, Senior Product Manager, Acrobat Solutions

At 260 pages produced over the course of almost a year, it was a daunting task, but in a macabre way, I wonder what it would’ve been like without using Acrobat to put this together.

You see, OP Management is currently a one-man shop (i.e. me). In the past I’d work on a proposal with my collaborators who had different applications and were looking at different versions of documents. To add another layer, not only were our applications disparate, but these folks were also located in other parts of the country and the world!

Needless to say, the workflow wasn’t ideal. I needed a complete document solution to support end-to-end, in-house publishing and gave me control over documents distributed to my partners.

Fortunately, I’ve seen firsthand the end-to-end possibilities of a report like this using Acrobat. My team and I were able to develop, publish and distribute this report—from start to finish—efficiently and securely. The content is so rich now thanks to capabilities we learned about in Acrobat’s PDF Portfolios to deliver interactive graphs and videos. In fact we plan to use Acrobat and its PDF Portfolios capabilities to deliver presentations at upcoming industry events to market our products, services, and of course, our report.

I’m now actively sharing these possibilities to our historically resistant clients. They have older ways of working and may feel threatened by change, but one of the advantages of using Acrobat is that it’s cross-platform, not to mention the other benefits like added security and working with rich media within the digital documents.

My hope is that our clients will see the ubiquity and rich content possibilities in Acrobat as I do. It’s something I hope will separate my company from everything else going on in the field.

John Pawlicki is Principal and CEO at OP Management. Check out the report John references, “Report on the Key Websites & Marketplaces for the Aviation/Aerospace Market,” here. 

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