August 2007 Archives

We have dramatically increased the number of users using Acrobat for review and commenting when we started to allow users with a full copy of Acrobat Pro to enable users of the Free Adobe Reader software to fully participate in document reviews with complete commenting and markup tools.  In turn, the number of questions I get surrounding handling review and commenting has also increased exponentially. For this entry I want to explore a couple tips and tricks in printing comments that have been placed on a pdf.

I have had several inquiries as to where to view the recorded Adobe and Engineering News Record eSeminar.  It has now been posted to our events page under the OnDemand eSeminars section.  You can access the eSeminar here.  We have received great feedback as to the content and how it really shows how you can increase productivity, reduce cost and minimize risk using Adobe Acrobat.  The summary for the content of the eSeminar can be viewed below.

Please join us for the weekly AEC eSeminar series tomorrow (8/15).  Tomorrow we will discuss how you can manage multiple destination files as well as set up batch processing to easily automate redundant tasks.  When you think about this industry it is heavily based on packages.  These could include items such as an RFP, RFQ, RFI, Transmittal, Submittal, etc.  Several different types of documents usually make up each one of these types of packages.  You could have a word document, with an excel spreadsheet, with a drawing file, etc.  Tomorrow I will take you through the new Acrobat 8 combine "package" feature and show you how you can effectively manage multiple files types in one pdf package.  Then will we discuss how you can easily automate redundant tasks by showing you how to use the batch processing features in Acrobat.  We will look at how to apply a watermark to several documents and how you can use a java script to add a signature field to several documents at once.  If you have 30 min tomorrow at 10 am PST then join us.  You can register for the event by clicking here.

Have fun,

Jonathan

How many times today do you receive a pdf form, and you cannot fill out the fields in the form?  It happens more than I would like to admit and it is very frustrating.  Think about the workflow that you have to go through to get the desired information back to the originator.  They expect you to print out the form, fill it out by hand and then fax, mail, or scan and email it back.  This is a very time consuming process.  I have a solution for you, which is one of our top Tips & Tricks, and that is the Typewriter Tool.

Join our special guest speaker John Moebes, Director of Construction, Crate and Barrel, and learn how to create and extend usage of custom, dynamic stamps as well as easily exporting data to Excel with Acrobat’s measurement tool—for quick calculations of drawing specifications.  This 30 min eSeminar will be held tomorrow, August 8th at 10:00 am PST.  To register you can click here.  To see upcoming AEC eSeminar's, continue reading below.

The answer is Yes, we do support 3D SketchUp files in Acrobat 3D!  There is a little trick though.  You have to export the 3D Sketchup model as a .obj file.  Then you can simply drag and drop the .obj into Acrobat 3D.  This will give you a 3D pdf that you can share with anyone including those with the Free Adobe Reader.  You may be interested to know that other Adobe products support SketchUp files.