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January 25, 2007
Enterprise Deployment of the Adobe Acrobat 8 Family
Adobe Acrobat 8 poses new opportunities—and some new challenges—for the IT staff of large organizations which need to deploy Acrobat to many users.
Adobe offers a new, completely re-written installation tool called the Adobe Customization Wizard for Acrobat 8.0. This tool allows you to create a Windows Installer Transform file (.MST) to modify Microsoft Installer files (.MSI).
On March 9, 2007, Adobe announced that we are discontinuing the Adobe License Manager . I consider this a win for customers!
This article covers two issues:
- I've already deployed Acrobat with ALM or I need non-ALM licenses to install. What do I do?
- How do I customize the installation of Adobe Acrobat?
I’ve included several links throughout this article which offer a deeper dive.
For the record, I’m not a deployment expert, so I cannot respond to technical questions about this topic.
Read on to learn more about common deployment questions…
January 24, 2007
PDF/A in Action: Creating and Conforming
PDF/A—PDF for Archiving—is a special “flavor” of PDF designed for the long term preservation of documents. PDF/A is an ISO standard.
For an introduction to PDF/A, please read my article PDF/A: PDF for Archiving.
Since the PDF/a format offers law firms the confidence that the file they create today can be opened many years from now, the legal community is interested.
Some regulatory bodies are pushing strongly for PDF/A submissions, too.
From a practical standpoint, there are four areas to consider:
- Creating PDF/A Files
- Validating files for PDF/A Conformance
- Bringing existing PDF files into conformance with PDF/A
- Create conformance reports
Read on to learn more about how to accomplish these operations in Adobe Acrobat Professional.
January 12, 2007
PDF/A: PDF for Archving
It's 2007. You just created an important document for a client— a complex regulatory filing for the client's new power plant.
Fast forward to 2027—twenty years from today. Will the documents open?
In the legal industry, document conversion problems are legion. Many attorneys started with WordPerfect and may have migrated to Word. Opening all of those old documents can be troublesome.
Will everything convert? Will it look the same?
The PDF format, designed to capture the printed intent of a document, is a great solution. With over half a billion copies of Adobe Reader installed, PDF has been a de facto standard. Adobe publishes the specification for the PDF, and over 1000 third-party products create, consume or work with PDF in one way or another.
However, government and industry need more assurances—they require de jure standards. A de jure standard is endorsed by an independent standards body such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Fortunately, we have PDF/A, an ISO standard.
Read on to learn more about PDF/A. In my next article, I’ll discuss how you can use Acrobat to create and convert PDF/A compliant files.
January 11, 2007
Password Security using Adobe Acrobat 8
Not long ago, I met an attorney who specialized in family law, especially divorce cases. The attorney had an issue come up with a client and wanted to know more about Acrobat security.
His client, the wife in the divorce proceedings, worked two jobs and had a hectic schedule. Email communication would have been the likely solution; however the husband and wife still resided in the same home and shared the same computer and email account.
What to do?
Sensitive matters make for concerned clients. Using Adobe Acrobat security, it is easy to password protect files from prying eyes.
All communications to the client were sent as encrypted PDFs which required a password to be viewed. This offered his client a high level of confidence that the spouse would not be able to open and read information sent from his office.
Read on to learn how to apply and work with password security.