March 2008 Archives

I am really excited about next week.  We are going to kick off the week at the Fiatech Annual Technology Conference in New Orleans.  This is the first year that Adobe has been a member of Fiatech and we are really excited about working with this industry organization and to be involved with many of the industry thought leaders.  I will be participating in a panel moderated by Ric Jackson to discuss why we joined, where we see our technologies addressing interoperability and how our technology may be used as a solution in the future related to ISO 15926.  I will be leaving New Orleans and traveling to Las Vegas for the ASPE BIM Seminar.  I have not worked with the ASPE organization yet, so I am very excited about this opportunity as well.  I will be doing a presentation on where we are now with AEC specific functionality, and where I see our future as it relates to Building Information Modeling. 

A couple weeks ago my wife and I had the honor of visiting the Victory Junction Gang Camp and making an Adobe software donation.  The Victory Junction Gang Camp was founded by Kyle and Pattie Petty, in honor of their son Adam, to provide life changing camping experiences to kids with chronic medical conditions or serious illness.  The VJGC is a non-profit organization and relies on the generous donations of individuals and organizations.  The have a full 24 hr production studio on-site that captures photos and videos of the campers and their experiences all through the week and then provides them to the campers and the parents as they depart.  I would like to share our experience and our tour with Pronto, the camp director, as the camp is truly an engineering feat in itself.

I have been delayed in posts, recently I have been a road warrior, not to metion getting stuck and not being able to get home due to Texas snow storms in March!.  Today I was at a very large customer and we were demonstrating Adobe Acrobat.  The question came up twice in different forms. The question was when I go to open a pdf file it opens in the Free Adobe Reader by default instead of Acrobat.  They were working with older versions and depending on the order in which you originally installed the applications it would change the default.  In Acrobat 8 and the Adobe Reader 8 it does prompt you and ask you which application do you want to be your default viewer for pdf files.  If you have this issue here are the steps to be able easily change it back.