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.

Read on for a full agenda and details.

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Posted by Rick Borstein at 1:43 AM | Permalink

Today, my colleagues Mark Middleton, Ed Chase and I conducted a joint eSeminar with the SAFE Bio-Pharma Association called:

Using SAFE- BioPharma Digital Signatures in Adobe Acrobat 9

I'll post a link to the recording soon.

I've included three downloads that you might find useful:

1. Adobe Acrobat Slides
   Go over the digital signing process in Acrobat
   
   
2. SAFE Slides
   Covers the business benefits of using SAFE signatures
   
   
3. Adobe LiveCycle eSubmissions Solutions Accelerator
   Slides on Adobe's server-based review and approval systems which can be part of an audited, CFR-Part 11 workflow
   
   
4. Digital Signatures Cheat Sheet
   Helps you understand the various status messages associated with digital signatures

Read on to get the good stuff.

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Posted by Rick Borstein at 9:48 PM | Permalink

If you attended my eSeminar " Regulatory Compliant PDFs and Beyond " and are looking for a copy of the slides and other materials, you're in the right place.

One point I try to get across about Acrobat is that it can be used for far more than just creating a PDF as part of an electronic submission.

Acrobat is terrific as a general tool for any knowledge worker. Need to capture information from a web site? Scan in paper documents? Combine files into something well-organized to send out?

Yes, yes, yes.

Click on the Continue Reading link below to access two documents:

1. Slides from the events
2. Comparison of Acrobat features from version 7, 8 and 9

Enjoy!

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Posted by Rick Borstein at 9:27 PM | Permalink

Did you attend the following eSeminar?

PDF Document Review eSeminar:
Ad Hoc or Audited Options for Life Sciences

I've posted two sets of slides. The first set covers Shared Review in Acrobat. The second set covers the LiveCycle eSubmissions Solution Accelerator.

To recap, the seminar covered:

Adobe experts will show you how to encourage active participation by your employees and accelerate the document review process. Whether you need informal document review or an audited CFR-Part 11 compliant review process, Adobe offers solutions which leverage the Adobe Acrobat product family, including the free Adobe Reader.

Attend this free seminar and you will:

• Learn how to enable ad hoc review workflows using Adobe Acrobat and the free Adobe Reader
• Discover how Adobe LiveCycle server solutions can create, route and manage audited review processes
• See how multiple users, in real time, can add notes and comments to PDF documents
• Discover how to create custom stamps and other annotations
• Find out how to use network folders or Microsoft SharePoint to host ad hoc reviews

Click onward to download the slides . . .

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Posted by Rick Borstein at 9:45 PM | Permalink

Adobe Reader 8.13 and Adobe Acrobat 8.1.3 are now available:

The Reader update is also available via FTP:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/8.x/8.1.3/

Note: Acrobat 9.0 and Adobe Reader 9.0 do not require a security update.

What's fixed?

The Acrobat/Adobe Reader 8.1.3 Release Notes contain an exhaustive list of the fixes.

Many of the fixes address dynamic forms issues. If your organization uses dynamic forms and Adobe's LiveCycle  server products, you should carefully read the Release Notes above.

Acrobat 8.1.3 also addresses some critical security issues.

You might want to read the Acrobat 8.1.3 Security Bulletin.

Posted by Rick Borstein at 8:20 AM | Permalink

Many of our customers have either deployed or are interested in deploying Microsoft SharePoint.

Today, my colleague Mark Middleton and did a 1-hour SharePoint eSeminar. Our Partner OmTool also participated; they offer the free Swiftwriter plug-in for Acrobat that provides check-in/out from SharePoint.

Watch Archived SharePoint eSeminar (Opens in a new window)

If you are not very familiar with SharePoint, it’s hard to describe this popular Microsoft product in a sentence. SharePoint may be used as a web portal, an enterprise search engine, as a collaboration tool, for content management and more.

You probably want to get the most you can from SharePoint in your organization. Since PDFs are one of the most frequently encountered document types in enterprises, Adobe is interested in SharePoint, too.

Read on to view the slides— with narrative sticky notes — from the presentation.

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Posted by Rick Borstein at 10:41 PM | Permalink

acrobat beta testing,acrobat pre-release program,adobe beta

Since PDF has become the de facto format for regulatory filings, use of Adobe Acrobat is nearly ubiquitous across the pharmaceutical and medical device industry.

It is advantageous to know as much as you can about new software that will arrive in the months ahead. With that knowledge, you can plan your budget, anticipate training needs and investigate how the new product will fit into your existing infrastructure.

What new features will be in the next version of Acrobat?

I can't tell you here, but you may be able to find out yourself by signing up for Adobe's Pre-release Program.

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Posted by Rick Borstein at 2:22 AM | Permalink