Acrobat for Legal Professionals

August 31, 2006

Creating Custom Stamps in Acrobat 7 or 8

Many of us have rubber stamps in our office. Perhaps you mark incoming documents as “Received” or invoices as “Paid”. Some attorneys have signature stamps. Stamps are useful because they quickly tell us status information about a document.

You can bring stamps into the digital realm by creating custom stamps in Acrobat 7 Standard or Professional. Then, you can stamp away on any PDF.

Stamps help add impact to your digital communications.

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August 22, 2006

Configuring an Acrobat Installation in Adobe Creative Suite 2

Version 2.0 of the Adobe Creative Suite Pro— aka CS2— includes some terrific applications:

  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe GoLive
  • Adobe Acrobat

You can imagine that the installer for a big application like this would be quite complicated to write. To simplify things, the CS2 installer engineers did not expose everything in the CS2 installer that is available in the Acrobat installer.

Law firms occasionally ask how to disable certain parts of Acrobat, especially the PDFMakers. That's easy to do with the solo Acrobat install, but a bit hard to find for CS2 users.

For those of you with this issue, here is the workaround.

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August 21, 2006

Word Settings for Acrobat PDF Maker

Acrobat, Bookmarks and Microsoft Word

By Rick Borstein
Business Development Manager, Legal Market
Adobe Systems Incorporated

The goal of any author is simple—get people reading their work. In this age of near ubiquitous PDF distribution online, a little extra effort can greatly improve the readability of your PDF document online.

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