Well, I for one will continue my love-affair with the Seattle-based chain. Many have often said that there's simply 'too much/too many'. And this may be true. But I can honestly say this: whether I'm in Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, Vienna, Frankfurt, or even the Netherlands, and I simply want a little taste of home, I can go down to the Starbucks and get just that: a truly familiar taste that guarantees a smile on my face and a warm feeling in my heart. ;) Long Live Starbucks.

Now...I promised some additional pics from Hong Kong. Last night we held an event at the IFC Building in Kowloon and had yet another amazing 'view'. Encased in glass, the venue (a place called, The Box) was tres-chic, and oh so groovy, both at night and during the day. Greg snapped a couple of pics which we quickly stitched together in Photoshop CS3. Take a look...

From the IFC Building in Kowloon, daytime.

And then, night falls...

Delivering the Vision @ the Masters Seminar, Hong Kong, July '08

Lastly, a little out-take from our Korean Press meeting. One of the photographers there snapped this pic at our offices...Audition for our 'new roles' perhaps? LOL

The Masters Audition for 'A Chorus Line' and/or Les Follies Bergeres

From here, we're onto Singapore, so stay tuned for more updates, more CS3, more pics, and more from the CS3 Masters Tour.

Until next time,

Blog on.

The upcoming eSeminar classes are listed here. I'll be covering the ones on creating and burning Blu-Ray discs on the 22nd, and one on adding Production Premium to your Final Cut Workflow on July 29th.

For strongly typed objects, you can implement the mx.rpc.xml.IXMLSchemaInstance interface to provide a QName for the xsiType property to target the subclass to be used during encoding. See: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/rpc/xml/IXMLSchemaInstance.html#xsiType

For anonymous ActionScript Objects, however, you may not know that you can wrap your object in an mx.utils.ObjectProxy instance and set its type property with a QName to achieve the same effect. See: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/utils/ObjectProxy.html#type

We may want to provide an Employee instance as a Record's person value, but unless we tell the encoder we have something more than a Person instance, the Employee-specific properties will not be encoded.

To avoid having to create Person or Employee strong types, here's a snippet showing how to create an ObjectProxy wrapper to instruct the encoder to encode an anonymous Object as an Employee:

import mx.utils.object_proxy;
import mx.utils.ObjectProxy;

...

        var emp:Object = {firstName:"John", lastName:"Smith", employeeId:1000};
        var employee:ObjectProxy = new ObjectProxy(emp);
        var employeeType:QName = new QName("urn:MyWebService", "Employee");
        employee.object_proxy::type = employeeType;

Now the encoder should know to include the Employee specific employeeId property:

The source for a complete example is attached as a file to download.

This is your PM after being busted following an all-night meth bender...

Lightroom team member Kelly Castro has been continuing his "Exteriors" project (see the whole collection), photographing people at Adobe & elsewhere.  On Monday he got me into the team's on-site photo studio for a shoot*.  If you're into this style, check out the info that Kelly & Bryan O'Neil Hughes put together on generating killer B&W using Photoshop + Lightroom.  (Kelly also created a color version of my portrait, in which I have the healthy glow of a Barbecue Pringle.)

In other photo news:

• Peep Eddie Murphy's giant head on the interstate.  (I'd like to see versions for Barry Bonds & Ted Kennedy, but I guess it would be redundant.) [Via]
• Don't I know you from the cinematographer's party?  No Country for Raising Arizona juxtaposes scenes from two very different Coen Bros. films. [Via]
• Not just a weird Photoshop job: Chinese cops on Segways (with very tiny guns). [Via] [Update: Engadget is having a caption contest for the photo. ("Don't make me lean forward and come over there...")]

*These little photo projects tend to turn funky, ranging from foolish to beatific to vainglorious. (Take that, Eddie Murphy.)

I've been wanting this feature in for the longest time... and now it's in the flash player (currently in beta).

Basically now you can create Flash games that go in full screen mode and be able to use certain keys that are often used by games. We had initially prevented keyboard access altogether for security reasons... like phishing... but i guess you can't really phish too much out of arrow keys, space bar, enter, etc.... but you can make some great games this way.

Hope you guys like this new feature :-)

You can also find video overview of other Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro offerings

Connect Pro Training

Connect Pro Meeting

Connect Pro Event

Introduction,Adobe,Presenter,Youtube ConnectPro

The detailed audit logs are accessible through our Web-based GUI, as well as programmatically through a set of APIs. One of our engineers recently was learning how to develop Adobe AIR applications, and decided to use these APIs to create a new audit dashboard application for examining audit data. We're starting to explore ways to release this application in the future but I wanted to share a preview of it with you. We're looking for feedback - so feel free to send an email to the address at the end of the Captivate video.

Click on the following screenshot to watch the preview:

Questions or feedback on this entry? Contact us at RMFeedback@adobe.com

Need more information on how your organization can effectively manage and protect your intellectual property? Further information can be obtained at http://www.adobe.com/go/rm or by contacting Adobe

There's also a Flex Camp event happening in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on August 21st, from 5:30 - 9:30 PM. There are 3 presentations from local Ottawa companies, and 3 demos from companies using Flex. Again, registration is limited, so you'll want to register for Flex Camp Ottawa. (Its free!)

If you're interested in hosting your own Flex Camp event, you can learn more about hosting your own Flex Camp event at flex.org.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

You'll see the page looks like this......

I'm sure I'll get comments on the size of Reader 9, someone will mention the word 'bloat' but once you've used the new capabilities and worked with a flash enabled PDF, you might, just might change your mind.

Also, did you notice the little eBay download option? It's our AIR based way of accessing eBay from your desktop, without a browser.... go on, give it a go.

If you are a LiveCycle customer with external facing forms you should ensure your customer-facing teams are familiar with the new version.

感谢台湾和香港

Next stops Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

Also, on the extremely off chance you aren't already hearing enough from me, Harris Fogel of Mac Edition Radio has posted the interview we recorded back at Photoshop World.  (The secret to my maintaining this blog?  Gross dereliction of other work duties.)

I'd like to give a shout out to my Turkish open source pal, İsmail. We didn't forget about you!

Windowless Mode

Oh yeah, this beta also introduces some other features that may be of interest to some people. There's this thing called windowless mode, a.k.a. wmode, a.k.a. transparency, a.k.a. proper stacking order, a.k.a. DHTML/JS menus unroll over a SWF vs. under, such as on the main Adobe website:

A.k.a. fullscreen Flash overlay ads! Yes! They're on Linux now. Let me tell you, I have never been so happy to see one as when I first got one to work in Linux. I suspect the novelty will wear off rather soon.

To be clear, there are 3 major modes for SWFs embedded in webpages: 1) Windowed mode, which is the only one supported by the Linux Flash Player up to this point; 2) windowless/transparent mode; 3) windowless/opaque mode. CommunityMX has this great, simple page that illustrates the differences between the 3 modes. (There are also 2 new wmodes introduced in Astro -- direct and gpu -- that are already supported in Linux where allowed by hardware.)

Thanks to both the Firefox and Opera teams for their support in implementing wmode. That's right-- this feature will work on both Firefox and Opera on Linux. For Firefox, you must have version 3. For Opera (as of this writing), you will need the latest beta of 9.50 Opera 9.50 release. Thanks also to Swfdec for implementing this feature concurrently, helping to attack wmode from many angles and bring Linux web browsing up to ~2002 standards.

Be advised that there are still some wmode-related problems, most notably this crash issue. Please report any other consistently crashing URLs.

Updated Camera Support (V4L2)

There is still some work to do on V4L2 and I will need some help with it. You might be able to help me with it, too. Details to come in a separate post.

Bonus! You can finally select from among multiple cameras installed on the system:

Oh hey, the dialog is localized in another new language: Swedish. Which brings me to...

Extended Language Support

Speed and Stability

Go. Get testing.

I've decided that this has the potential to be a series and so (hopefully!) this is the first of several offerings to give you the idea about specific filters and effects that you can use to create different motion backgrounds and animation elements.

The project file is pretty straightforward and I'll let you dig into it. Given time (a most precious commodity right now!) I will try to write it all up since I haven't done so in quite a while.  In the meantime, let me breakdown the seven animations included in this project.

• Basic Toolbox #1: This is the basic animation and underscores how vast and cool Fractal Noise can be.  Repeat the mantra with me, "Fractal Noise is your friend!"  Very good.  You'll also notice that the Find Edges filter can be used to great effect and moreover it highlights the idea that you can use a single effect more than once to get different results.  Tritone and Glow round out the list of indispensible filters that you should know about.  Please note that I applied a simple wiggle expression to the glow threshold to give it a undulating feel.
• Variation #1: This just shows the same animation with a mask, illustrating the fact that you can take any motion background and populate other elements like a lower third or transitional wipe.
• Variation #2: Mr. Mercury is just plain fun, which is why I did it. Gives it a liquid like look with shine and did I mention it's fun?  I played with the parameters a bit (gravity and type) to give it a different look
• Variation #3: CC Fast Blur... Gotta have it. Use just horizontal or vertical to create something neat.  Add Emboss to make moving brushed metal. A must have for any AE user.
• Variation #4:  CC Kaleida.  Pretty straightforward right?
• Variation #5:  Scatter gives you a pointalism look and I include it as something a bit different
• Variation #6: Film strip is still a popular effect in the right place and so knowing when and how to apply the Motion Tile effect will allow you to make this a snap!

I whipped this up in less than an hour and it should illustrate the idea that all you need to be successful with After Effects is an imaginative mind and a little free time. 

One final note - if this is something you want to see more of, please comment and let me know. The goal of any blog like this is to provide information, content and tutorials that appeal to users.  If I'm missing the mark, please let me know!  So, take the hint, and please comment! ;-)

Here's the project file: Basic Toolbox #1

As per usual, I've tried to take some cool photos. I got a nice pano from Taipei (stitched from 3 photos). What's unique about the Taiwan venue was that it was actually two separate rooms; one seating 500+; another seating 250. The smaller room was sent a video feed, and they were just as enthusiastic and invigorated, even though we were effectively presenting to them live, via satellite (or, via ethernet/DVI, whatever!)

The crowd in Taipei from the 'main room'

Ruf & Greg have a laugh (probably at my expense!)

Listening attentively, waiting to present

Breathtakingly-beautiful Hong Kong (from the 57th Floor)


So, that's all for now, my friends (more photos from H.K. coming soon!) Again, it was truly our pleasure to come visit you in Taipei and Hong Kong. Thanks to all the attendees for your kindness, your great energy, your endurance (staying with us for over 7 hours!) and your dedication to all things CS3 and Adobe. we love you for it!

Until next time,

感谢台湾和香港

Blog on. ;)

...and that means I can start posting my cool new samples.

In the example below I've placed a chart (created in Adobe Flex 3) on a PDF page that contains Acrobat Form fields in the form of a table. A JavaScript function in Acrobat is able to send new data to the chart when you edit the fields causing the chart to visually reflect the change. Please download the new Reader then come back here and download the FlexChart example file. I'll follow this posting up with the source code for the SWF and the JavaScript in the PDF file once we have the new SDK posted.

FlexChart

The question started for me back in February while shooting photos outside. I realized that even though I was hip deep in snow on a cold and blustery day, I was totally engaged. I was using digital tools to create and express something of my own. I thought about all of my students and I wondered, just how many of them were equally engaged in using digital tools to build or express something of their own.

So many teenagers, my students included, only use their digital knowledge for entertainment. They essentially fill out online forms that someone else created so they can talk to each other and have fun. Facebook, Myspace and all of the other online forums fall into this category of using digital technology. While growing up with this technology certainly gives them an edge does this really make them digital natives? Isn’t this a concept we need to revisit, now that this technology has evolved even further – for all of us?

During my senior class last year (I teach digital design and digital production to high school students) I introduced Buzzword as the vehicle I would be using for a new project. As I was showing and demonstrating Buzzword to them one student looked up and said – without any provocation from me – “Thank God someone’s using the internet for something that’s not entertainment!” Point well taken – does simply using someone else’s online creations make you a “native”. I asked this same class that question later on – there were two opinions. First – those who use this technology to build or express something of themselves or their friends said, “No!” Kids had to be using it for more than Facebook etc. They considered these forums to be nothing more than the email of our earlier generation. They, in comparison, did everything from creating their own fully functioning web sites (using CSS!), to recording their friends’ bands, creating action characters (2d and 3d), initiating and pursuing ongoing blog discussions (Twitter was one favourite here), making movies, creating manipulated images and sounds and animations (Flash and others)… the list was long and wonderful. But – the other group wanted their say. They claimed that even though they did not use the technology as deeply as group one, they still felt that yes, they deserved the name, “natives”. They pointed out how many adults couldn’t even begin to use Facebook properly – and they were right. It does offer many layers of involvement, which the students had conquered long ago, while the adults they knew were nowhere near this level of sophistication. And they had other examples as well – once again, a point well taken – or was it?

I pointed out how entitled the second group often was, how overly entertained they were, how overly indulged they were. And the class agreed – not totally – but many agreed. Were these overly indulged kids really digital natives? Not by my standards, and that is because the world of digital technology has changed and continues to evolve even as we watch. What counted for so much years ago, now can be taken for granted. There are new levels of “native-ness” if you will allow me this awkward term. Yes, we, the adults, really need to get up to speed and yes, Prensky’s points about how these kids think and work do bear serious consideration. This is especially true for we, their teachers, who must accommodate some of their new attributes. But only some, because not everything they do or stand for is good and supportable. And that, is what bothers me about Mark Prensky’s writings. I am not seeing enough of this other half of the discussion. It is time to put that on the table as well. While we are at it, can we also please redefine what we mean by digital natives? Can we please raise that bar several steps, to better accommodate where this technology has taken us now, and then again in the future as it evolves yet again?

Get a copy, and then download these examples of documents created with Acrobat 9:

• this PDF Portfolio, which contains some of the Acrobat 9 marketing materials and a Flash movie.
• this Flash application which includes a flash controller, flash playbar, flash movie and captions which can be useful for accessibility requirements, or subtitles for localization.

and, let me know if you have some samples created with Acrobat 9 that I can showcase here.

Additionally we've got a little incentive program going! For every 3 patches that we accept, we'll buy an Adobe-related book for you off of your Amazon wish list. And for the first two people who submit 10 patches that we accept, we're going to pay for their MAX ticket!

Please check out the Flex 3 Contributions page for more information.

We’re also noticing, however, that some users are still hitting a problem that was introduced by a VersionCue 3.1 update last year. For a subset of users, the update did not install the VersionCueUI framework. As a result, when invoking a NavServices dialog (i.e., place, relink, save as, etc.), they will crash--not because of a Leopard problem, but because their VersionCueUI framework was not updated.

If you've installed 10.5.4 and are still experiencing a crash when invoking the Place or other system navigation dialogs, then please review the information below.

We’ve had a Knowledge Base article on this VersionCue updater issue late 2007. We have sent the email below to users that have sent us crash logs in the past couple months:

You’ve recently submitted an InDesign crashlog for a crash you hit when attempting to open one of the system file dialogs (Open, Place, Save As, Export, or Relink). The cause of this crash is a failed installation of a VersionCue update. Here is a link to an Adobe support webpage that will give you some more detail and a solution:
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb402521

If you area also running MacOS 10.5 (aka Leopard), I highly recommend that you get Apple’s latest update, 10.5.4, which was posted yesterday. To get this, choose “Software Update...” under your Apple menu. This latest update fixes another common case of InDesign unexpectedly quitting when attempting to access these dialogs in Leopard.

Finally, earlier today, Adobe posted an update to InDesign CS3, version 5.0.3, which fixes several critical bugs in other areas of the product. To get this update, choose “Updates...” under the Help menu in InDesign CS3. Alternatively, you can download the 5.0.3 updater from: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3961

Thank you for submitting crashlogs. Although we cannot respond to every submission, we review them regularly and work to address the most serious issues.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro enables designers to collaborate on documents more effectively and efficiently with the ability to create and manage forms and collect forms data more easily using Acrobat 9 Pro and the Acrobat.com . Acrobat.com is a new suite of hosted services that allows designers to co-navigate PDF documents with clients or colleagues in real time. The service is currently available if you sign up for the public beta.

Acrobat 9 Pro also includes an Overprint Preview feature which allows print professionals to accurately view interactions between overlapping objects.

To read the full press release, please visit the Adobe Press Room.

One of the cool new features of Acrobat.com (Adobe’s new free hosted services — currently in public beta) allows you to embed a widget directly in your HTML page (like I’ve done below) - to allow you to view the PDF content — inline — in the HTML page before deciding if you want to download it. For example, this file is now 10 MB after I attached the exercise files to the PDF document for convenience.

(Please note: you’ll need Adobe Flash Player installed to view this content)

How do you do this yourself?

1. Login to Acrobat.com. If you don’t have an account yet, don’t worry. It’s free - and you just click Sign Up to get started.
2. Upload the file you want to make available in your HTML page.
3. Select Copy Embed Code from the details pod (Figure 1) or if you are looking at all of your files (figure 2)
   just click on the arrow to the right of the file name and select Copy Embed Code from the dropdown.
   

   Figure 1. Document is open

   Figure 2. Viewing all documents

4. Place the copied link into your html page, similar to this example:

<html><title>Demonstration of using PDF Widget in a Web Page</title>
<body><p>The following is a preview of PDF content hosted on Acrobat.com</p>

<p><object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000” codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/

shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,115,0” width=”365” height=”500”> <param name=”movie” value=”https://share.acrobat.com/adc/flex/mpt.swf” /> <param name=”quality” value=”high” /> <param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”/> <param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/> <param name=”flashvars” value=”ext=pdf&docId=1826d5f7-ab86-4350-9590-d55c7a18f1c5”/> <embed src=”https://share.acrobat.com/adc/flex/mpt.swf” quality=”high” pluginspage=”http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”365” height=”500” wmode=”transparent” allowFullScreen=”true” flashvars=”ext=pdf&docId=1826d5f7-ab86-4350-9590-d55c7a18f1c5”> </embed> </object></p>

<p>Really cool, right?</p>

</body></html>

And my HTML page looks like this

Figure 3. HTML Example displayed in Safari browser.

Now I can flip through the file, and determine if it is indeed the information I wanted, and then select Download or Share from the menu, and I’m directed to Acrobat.com.

Notice here in Figure 4 that I’m prompted to download (vs. preview) due to the fact that here is additional functionality in this PDF supported on in Acrobat and Reader — that is basically the fact that I’ve attached the exercise files to the PDF document as an attachment.

Figure 4. Message appears when viewing in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader delivers the best experience.

Enjoy!

Today, Karen followed up by delivering our weekly seminar - again, focused on ConnectNow. For those interested who couldn't make it, we recorded the session using ConnectPro. You can view the seminar by going to the recorded session here. It's 43 minutes long, and definitely worth the time. Everyone who has seen ConnectNow in action has been really impressed; Karen's session will show you what everyone's been so excited about.

We're holding these seminars weekly all summer, every Tuesday at 11:30 EDT, 8:30 PDT. Next week, we'll be focusing on a more technical subject: Fang Chang, product manager for our developer tools and document APIs, will provide an in-depth view at the ways that developers can make use of our platform to build rich collaboration capabilities into their own applications.

For more information on the seminars, including the schedule and the logisitics for these seminars, follow this link to the posting on our forum.

Page-specific Ads

You will have the option to choose how ads are matched to your PDF.

- Choose Match ads for the entire PDF to dynamically match one set of ads to the PDF and display this same set of ads on every page. This is the current default behavior. Use this option when you have a PDF that contains only one main subject or topic (for example, a PDF article that is focused on travel to Paris). This results in the best ads since "noise" from each individual page of the PDF does not negatively sidetrack the ad matching.

- Choose Match ads for each page to dynamically match and display a different set of ads on each page. Use this option when you have a PDF that contains multiple subject or topic areas (for example, a PDF newsletter that contains three different articles - one about IPods, another about game consoles and a third about HDTV). This results in the best ads since each page is analyzed individually and will match ads specific to that page's content.

PDF Access Guidelines

In some situations, such as when a user is offline, or has a version of Adobe Reader, ads cannot be displayed with your PDF content. The default behavior is to always allow PDF content to be viewed, even without ads. However, if you rely on the ads to subsidize your content, you can restrict viewing of the PDF when ads cannot be displayed. In this case, a coversheet is displayed on the PDF which asks the user to download the latest version of the free Adobe Reader and/or connect to the network. Once those conditions are met, the coversheet is removed and the user can view your PDF content with ads.

Embed Ads Within the PDF

In addition to displaying ads in a side panel next to your PDF content, you can now display ads within the PDF content itself. You will be able to place the ads exactly where you want them in the PDF. In addition, you can choose from different ad sizes and a variety of ad color palettes, including a combination of border, background and text colors. To see an example of ads within the PDF, click here .

Use of this feature requires Acrobat 9 as well as a free plug-in that adds a new ad layout menu to the existing Acrobat menus.

Bulk Ad-enablement of PDFs

If you have a large volume of PDF files, we offer a desktop application that will programmatically upload PDF files to be ad-enabled. The application allows you to specify an outbound FTP server folder where original PDF files will be retrieved for processing. The service uploads those files, ad-enables them and then delivers the ad-enabled PDFs to an inbound FTP server folder or to an email server. This application will be made available to large volume publishers later this month.

For more information about these new features, you can visit our website which contains a FAQ document and additional resources.

The other thing I want to point out and hope you will try is the Speech to Text function.  This will actually transcribe your audio and save the resulting text as metadata in the file!  Pretty amazing and its getting a lot of response.  Metadata is the future and being able to create metadata (relavent information about the asset) without manual entry is going to be a huge deal.

So, if you haven't given Soundbooth a try yet, I encourage you to download it from the Adobe Labs site.  It works on both Intel Macs and PCs, so you've got no excuse!

When we released AIR 1.1 last month, we also made changes to the redistribution license and documentation to clarify this situation. Silent installation is now supported for anyone who has a redistribution agreement, whether that agreement was signed before or after these changes. For details, see the updated redistribution documentation.

• A problem introduced in the 10.5.3 update that could cause file corruption with files saved from Photoshop and other applications, has been fixed.
• Navigation Services issues that could cause InDesign to crash have been addressed.  InDesign evangelist Tim Cole has provided more details, and the InDesign team has released their own ID 5.0.3 update today (Mac|Win; InCopy Mac|Win).
  

Agenda:
1. Adobe
(a) Adobe Players is ubiquitous
* High Penetration: Mobile, PMP, Game console and PC
(b) Technical Pioneer
* Image (PostScript), Document (PDF), Web (Flash), Video (Flash Video) and Application (AIR)
* Reader 9, Flash 10 and AIR 1 (Flash = RIA bridges to all)
(c) 4 Ecosystems:
* Designers <-> Developers
* Content <-> Publishers <-> POD (Publish / Print-on-demand) <-> On-demand (Content / Ads-on-demand)
* Content <-> Operators <-> Handsets <-> Content-to-go
* Content <-> Web 2.0 Service Providers <-> Front-end Applications <-> Eyeball vs. Engage

2. Flash Video
(a) Web Video Trend is going high
(b) Flash Video Applications:
* Web DVR + Social Media = YouTube Quick Capture
* Live broadcasting = Ads focusing content (no Ads will be skipped)
* Web quality to HD (H.264) high quality
* Video Commenting (e.g. Viddler.com)
* Streaming by Mobile (Flash Lite 3) and Adobe Media Player
(c) Strategy:
* Flash Video is the leading format in Web Video
* Ads Ecosystem = Adobe Media Player + Service Provider + Ads Producer + Content Provider
* Flash Video streaming in all devices (Video and Data Streaming by Flash Player 6+ and Flash Lite 3+)

3. Flash in Mobile / Device
(a) 2007 deployment: Mobile > CE > PC
(b) Strategy:
* Flash Lite is the leading RIA in mobile (shipping > 500M)
* Push Content Services (by Adobe Flash Cast) = NTT DoCoMo, Verizon Wireless and China Telecom
* Open Screen Project: Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications, Removing licensing fees of next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices free, etc.
* High Penetration in all devices

4. Details of Flash Video
(a) Introduction
* What's Flash?
* What's Flash Video (FLV)?
* 3 deployments (Embedded, Progressive, Streaming)
(b) Comparison of Flash Media Streaming Server 3 and Flash Media Interactive Server 3

5. Deployment
(a) Front-end: Created with swf / air by Flash CS3 / Flex Builder 3
(b) Front-end: Integrated with html / air by Dreamwaver CS3
(c) Testing: Simulated by Device Central CS3 for mobile development
(d) Back-end: Streaming by Flash Media Server (just changing HTTP to RTMP)
(e) Back-end: Monitoring by FMS Administration Console
(f) Production: Video Production by CS3 Production Premium

6. Adobe Applications
(a) Clients: High penetration
(b) Applications: Video, Web, RIA and Cross-media
(c) Tools: CS and Flex Builder
(d) Services / Servers: LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Flash Media Server, Acrobat Connect, Flash Cast and Scene 7

There are also virtual classes for Adobe Captivate 3 July 10-11 and August 7-8.

PS: Kevin Siegel, the instructor, has some books published around our tools

• Essentials of Adobe Captivate 3
• Adobe Captivate 3: Script Writing and Production Guide
• Essentials of Adobe RoboHelp 7 HTML

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• senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): San Flashcisco: 3D without an Engine
• Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): SWF Searchability, the Right Way!

• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Bruce Eckel): ActionScript collections and functional programming
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Marco Casario): Flex solutions excerpt: Uploading files to the server
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Omar Gonzalez): AdvancED Flex Application Development excerpt: Working with video
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Sebastien Arbogast): The Flex, Spring and BlazeDS full stack – Part 2: Writing the to-do list server (The Flex, Spring, and BlazeDS full stack - Part 1: Creating a Flex module)
• Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe): Enabling Web 2.0: Dojo, MooTools, YUI, and Spry
• Adobe Developer Connection (Rich Shupe, Zevan Rosser): Learning ActionScript 3.0 excerpts: OOP overview, display list, and programmatic motion
• Adobe Developer Connection (Paulo Caroli, Henrik Lindahl): Writing and running functional tests for Flash with Selenium RC
• Adobe Developer Connection (William B Sanders): Learning Flash Media Server 3 excerpts: Nonpersistent shared objects and two-way A/V communications
• Adobe Developer Connection (Nick Myers): Designing interactive products with Fireworks
• Adobe Developer Connection (James Ward): Using the data management services in LiveCycle Data Services ES
• Adobe Developer Connection (Ben Forta): Understanding LiveCycle Data Management Services
• Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe): SWF searchability FAQ

But the event itself doesn’t have to be an online meeting. For example, you may have used an online Connect Pro meeting as a webinar to launch your new product. You could certainly use Event Management to capture all the leads to that live event. But after the webinar you’d like to use the recording of the meeting to capture leads too – Connect Pro Event Management can help. This little tutorial shows you how you can set-up an event to capture leads from on-demand content such as a meeting recording. http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p59921580/

adobe,presenter,features

Fireworks CS4 public beta demos
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Fireworks_Beta:Demos

Fireworks developer center
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks

Highlights of the case studies include:

• Using the authentication SDK to allow custom integration with third-party authentication systems. By leveraging customers' non-LDAP authentication infrastructure it reduced the cost to deploy and ensured the solution was non-disruptive.
• Policy-based control enables flexibility in document usage via seven-day lease and IP address restrictions
• Using the authorization SDK for native PLM integration, thereby extending the boundary of PLM control to documents regardless of whether they are on laptops, on file servers, or in email.
• Helping to ensure only the most recent document version is available, regardless of distribution.
• Secure offline access: viewing protected documents on a laptop with no network access. Authorized users can view only the latest versions of documents while on planes or in the field.
• Smart card authentication: using multifactor authentication to increase security in high-risk environments.
• Watermarking: help ensure printed documents reference employee name and timestamp of print to keep employees honest, as well as provide a trail of activity.
• Audit SDK - View document access usage log data and perform trend analysis.

You can find the paper here.

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