February 2008 Archives

I will be hosting the "More Efficient Intelligent Document Workflow's for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry" eSeminar this Wednesday (2/27/08) from 12-1 pm CST.   I will spend the majority of time on Acrobat, but will also be demonstrating LiveCycle and Acrobat Connect.  You can register with this link:  AEC eSeminar.

During this eSeminar you will learn how to:

• Capture data from all the applications that support your work
• Combine files of differing formats into intuitive document packages
• Protect intellectual property and project information with document level security
• Streamline communication, redline, and mark-up
• Process, collect, and analyze critical data
• Extend 3D design assets to anyone with the Free Adobe Reader

I apologize for the late notice on my blog, but register today and I will see you on Wednesday!

This past fall I spent some time speaking to several colleges in Texas about including Acrobat 3D in their engineering labs so that students could take advantage of being able to convert their 3D projects into a pdf format that could be shared with anyone with the FREE Adobe Reader.  I thought it would be a good way of students being able to communicate with their other colleagues and professors, but also be able to take their models or projects with them and still be able to view and share them without having the native software.  I was very surprised in the response from department heads in that most told me in one form or another that "we teach principles, we don't teach technology!"  It was not that we were asking them have a course on Acrobat 3D just the ability for students to simply drag and drop models into Acrobat and convert them into a pdf document that gave them 100x compression and the ability to share with others.  Most understood the value proposition, but then there was one university that just stood out from the rest and that was Texas State University.

We are just getting back from daratechPLANT.  Adobe had a table top exhibit which took most of our time, but we were able to attend some of the key presentations.  The two goals we had for this show was evangelizing the EPC/OO community on the functionality we are putting into our applications to address their business needs, but also to keep up to date on the industry standards as they progress. There were several exciting announcements that came from Ric Jackson - Fiatech and Robin Benjamins - Bechtel.