My colleagues Mark Middleton, Ed Chase and I offered an eSeminar today on collaborative review tools.
The eSeminar featured solutions for ad hoc review using Acrobat and also audited, workflow-based review using the Adobe eSubmissions Solutions Accelerator.
Here, you can view the slides from today's session.
I've stored these on my Acrobat.com account so you can view a Flash preview or download the PDF which includes speaker notes.
Read the rest of the entry to get to the downloadable slides.
I'll be racking up the frequent flyer miles on Adobe's Acrobat Forum Tour to bring you Acrobat 9 in Chicago, Columbus, Cincinnati, Seattle and San Francisco.
Yep, that means you can have a close personal experience with Rick Borstein and receive a three-hour demonstration of Adobe Acrobat 9.
Free breakfast included . . . what's not to like?
Oh, the features! See PDF Portfolios, forms, redaction, conversion tips, export to Word and Excel, security and a lot more.
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Read on for a full agenda and details.
Documents submitted to the FDA's CBER and CDER must comply with the agency's PDF specifications regarding link appearance.
Both agencies prefer blue text for hyperlinks in PDFs created from electronic source files. For scanned documents, hyperlinks should be a thin blue line.
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If you are creating documents in Microsoft Word, it is best to style the text blue, or edit your styles to include the color, then convert to PDF.
Regulatory professionals often have to work with scanned documents, or PDFs authored outside of their control. For these documents, a post-process is required to bring link appearance into compliancy.
In this article, I'll discuss how to change link color and style.
I recently received the following inquiries from customers::
Some of my Excel files contain more than one worksheet. I would like to convert the second worksheet in an Excel file to the same PDF.
I have over 1000 Excel documents to convert to PDF as part of a regulatory filing. Is there a way to convert these all to PDF in batch?
I'll tackle both of these needs in this article.
Fortunately, Acrobat 8 and later can easily convert all of the worksheets in your Excel files to PDF:
When you use the PDF Maker in Acrobat 9, you have some additional options to select just the worksheets needed:
A) Choose options to convert all worksheets, the currently selected worksheet or a subset of the worksheets.
B) To choose some worksheets, but not others, select from the list on the left and use the Add or Remove buttons to move them to the list on the right.
C) Click the Convert to PDF button to complete the process
The result is a nicely bookmarked PDF that looks like this:
If you want to convert many Excel documents in batch to PDF, there are a few additional tricks involved. Read on learn how in the rest of the article.
The pharmaceutical industry uses a lot of data. Consequently, we see a lot of tabular data converted to PDF documents. It is common to see lab instrument data, database reports and enterprise systems data output as PDF.
So, there you are, alone in your office staring at a PDF document wishing you had access to the original data. What do you do?
Fortunately, Acrobat 9.1 offers a couple of different ways to export to Excel.
To open the XML-based file output generated using method 2 above, you'll need either:
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Acrobat generally will usually do a pretty good job converting the text, but formatting and column widths will look different than the original. Acrobat only copies over the text. Formulas will not convert. Do not expect 100% fidelity.
In the full article, you'll receive my usual step-by-step instructions.
