Adobe Acrobat also lowers AGA’s document administration costs. With, Adobe Acrobat the company established reliable, long-term archive and document tracking processes to address product development and regulatory requirements.

To learn more about how AGA uses Adobe Acrobat, click here.

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.

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

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Read the full white paper here.

Learn more about the recently launched Acrobat IT Resource Center, here.

The book covers a wide array of topics that are relevant for novice users such as the new interface, basic PDF conversion and Adobe Reader, as well as topics for more advanced users such as OCR, Guided Actions, prepress and accessibility features.

Here is a sneak-peak at some excerpts to give you a taste of what Adobe Acrobat X PDF Bible offers:

• Exporting PDF Content
• Editing Text
• Scanning and OCR Conversions
•  Creating Accessibility and Tagging PDF Files
• Understanding Acrobat Form Tools

This book from Wiley publishing has long been a trusted Acrobat reference, and much like Acrobat, it keeps getting better with time!  It’s available for purchase now at bookstores and online.

Varanasi says that digital literacy is essential for student success. By using the right mix of tools in the classroom, teachers can challenge students’ traditional notions about their own creativity and get students to think differently about how the explore, create, and communicate assignments. By using more dynamic creative applications, teachers and students can look at assignments in new ways. To read more, check out the recent Adobe success story here.

Now here comes my killer response: “I do interactive PDFs!”

I’ve actually started to get some enjoyment by watching this person desperately try to think of something to say. Believe me it’s hilarious.

I suppose these events occasionally attract people who know what a PDF is, so you do get the opportunity to suggest that they are more than “just a PDF.”

I often start by asking people how they communicate across their organization, assuming that I will get the usual “by email, SharePoint, Intranet,” along with the omnipresent “Word, Excel, Powerpoint” responses. I then ask another trying question, “Would you like to have all of your clever and important documents—flattery is always a good ploy—delivered in one single, navigable PDF?”

If they say NO, then you might as well shift the conversation towards the riveting and thrilling PowerPoint you may have just been subjected to, or if that’s not applicable, discussing the weather is always an option. I’ve yet to find anyone who says to me “Ooh, I do interactive PDFs as well!” What is stopping this particular fraternity from realising that ALL of the wonderful work that they create can be delivered within a PDF?

If, however, they say YES, then clearly this presents an opportunity to enquire, “Would you like to do all that as well as including audio, video, data collation, tracking and commenting reviews within the PDF”?

Let’s assume that you have achieved Nirvana—the “wow” response. Now that Acrobat X is on the scene, it has taken the user interface to a level which not only suits the enterprise user, but also suits the creative community— the cool and hip visionaries that create stunning imagery, graphics and rich media.

Realize that they have to experience for themselves real life samples and that some are sensitive individuals within the enterprise who rely heavily on the IT team for advice and guidance.

Perhaps it’s best to show actual, real, relevant and dynamic examples which contain all of this rich material. I’ve received a project which requires ALL manner of files and skills, including 50‐
80 pages of text, 20 separate fact sheets and three Flash animations.

At the first meeting to discuss the options, I suggested a dynamic PDF as the solution. I heard the sound of a haunting wind, and tumbleweed could be seen drifting across the table. The

design group preferred Flash; the head of the global brand didn’t know what a PDF was; and the technical writers wondered how the printers could make PDF interactive.

The agency charged with managing the project intervened. “I think it would be a good idea if
Harry showed us a few examples.” I showed them dynamic PDF – and was offered the job!

For too long, there has been a perceived split personality for Acrobat, where in my submission one should not exist, because it is both a proven business tool as well as vehicle for delivering creative and engaging content.

I’m sure that in such circumstances where these two areas are converged, there is a market and a suite of innovative products ripe for development and delivery to consumers and businesses alike.

Harry Hemus is an independent media production professional at Dividi Projects. When Harry is not enjoying canapés at cocktail parties, he is brainstorming his next act of wizardry with interactive PDFs for his media production clients.

Have a great wizard story on how Acrobat has inspired your work? Share it with us in the blog comments, we’d love to hear from you. Stay tuned for more upcoming Wizards in our Acrobat Wizards at Work blog series.