Adobe Blogs http://blogs.adobe.com/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:20:03 +0000 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:20:03 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.261 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Are you a ColdFusion developer who uses Flex? Mallika Yelandur Well, if you are, this post is just for you.

The Learning Resources group at Adobe is conducting a brief survey to learn more about how customers get information about using Flex. The many ColdFusion developers out there who use Flex, we'd be particularly interested in getting your feedback.

Click the link below to take a quick survey on the following topic:

Creating data-driven applications in Flash Builder 4

 

Thanks, in advance. We really appreciate your participation in this survey!

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/mallika/2009/11/are_you_a_coldfusion_developer_who_uses_flex.html http://blogs.adobe.com/mallika/2009/11/are_you_a_coldfusion_developer_who_uses_flex.html Learning Resources Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:34:19 +0530 The Next generation of Acrobat.com is Here RJ Jacquez Today (11/21/09) Adobe has launched a new and much improved version of Acrobat.com, our Online Office Suite, which includes the following online services:  
  • Web Conferencing via ConnectNow — Host online meetings with easy-to-use web conferencing
  • File Sharing and Storage — Rather than sending large e-mail attachments back and forth, simply share your file online with a URL that is always the same
  • Online Adobe PDF Creation— Easily create Adobe® PDF documents from your existing files in Microsoft® Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®, and many other applications
  • Adobe Buzzword beta — Write, edit and comment on documents with your team
  • Acrobat.com Presentations beta — Work with others to create stunning presentations
  • Acrobat.com Tables beta — Collaborate on data and information typically shared in spreadsheets or simple databases

Here are useful resources for all things Acrobat.com, in the way of Tweets, which I posted earlier today. Note the links in the tweets below are live:

Additionally, here are previous blog posts I have published on Acrobat.com:

Finally, here are some early reviews on the new Acrobat.com:

To learn about breaking Adobe News, follow me on Twitter @rjacquez.

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]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez/2009/11/the_next_generation_of_acrobat.html http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez/2009/11/the_next_generation_of_acrobat.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:03:18 -0800 (rt) Photography: Amazing bird photography, Mars, & more John Nack
  • Andrew Zuckerman just crushes it with his bird book. Outstanding. [Via]
    • History:
      • ]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/11/rt_photography_amazing_bird_photography.html http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/11/rt_photography_amazing_bird_photography.html From Twitter Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:22:48 -0800 Unity - Bringing it all together Lisa Underkoffler It's been 2 years since the Virtual Ubiquity team joined Adobe and Acrobat.com. And we're marking the anniversary with our most ambitious release to date. Adobe veterans and the former Virtual Ubiquity team have brought their technologies together to merge our online services into a much more cohesive whole. And we think you'll be pleased with the result. We're bringing it all together.

      Org2.jpg

      Acrobat.com, up until now, has been a collection of different applications running on different architectures, and file organizers. So, we retooled and created a new back-end that is the collaboration engine that will power everything we do going forward. It's been a tremendous amount of work, but it's work that we believe will pay off well for the future of Adobe's online applications.

      One organizer to rule them all.

      We code-named this release "Unity" because it's the release in which we "bring it all together." The biggest change you'll see is that we now have a single file organizer where you'll find all of your files - files that you have uploaded, PDFs that you have created, documents that you have created in Buzzword, Presentations or Tables. You'll also find it easy to launch a ConnectNow meeting.

      Answering our number one feature request.

      We've been deluged with people who have too many files in their organizers. They needed a way to better organize their files. Introducing "Collections" - which we think are an improvement on the traditional file folder that we've all been using forever. Collections are very much like Playlists in iTunes, or like Albums in iPhoto or collections in Adobe LightRoom. You can drag-and-drop files into Collections much as you would with traditional file folders; the big difference is that a file can live in more than one collection. Of course, if you're more comfortable with the traditional file folder metaphor, there's nothing preventing you from simply treating collections like folders by placing a file in only one Collection. There's a new Search feature so you can search by any word in a file name. (We'll add full text search at a later date.)

      Presentations and Tables leave the lab.

      Presentations and Tables debuted in the late Spring on Acrobat.com Labs. We've added a number of new features to both. And now you'll find them both easily accessed from the new unified organizer.

      New features in Tables include export to XLS, CSV and PDF, printing, find & replace, filtering improvements, fixed headers for scrolling the worksheet and more.

      In Presentations, we've include import PPT and PPTX files, support for FXG files, spell check in 19 languages, easy ways to browse Flickr and Google public images, integration with Kuler for additional color sets, more slide transition styles, and more. There's also a great new feature for publishing a slide deck so you can access it via a link or embedding the slides on a website or blog.

      Improved PDF conversion.

      The online PDF conversion engine is new, and a more comprehensive service. If you were having font problems or spacing problems with our earlier release, we urge you to give it another try. You'll see greatly improved fidelity across a wider variety of document types.

      More about what's going on behind the scenes.

      As noted above, we replaced our entire server foundation. We needed to do this to provide a common experience throughout the service as well as to support our designs moving forward. A collaboration engine - one that's built expressly with the notion that people work together on documents across organizations and across firewalls - is essential to the new way to work that we've pioneered with our rich internet applications.

      The Acrobat.com Team built a system that, at its core, tracks multiple people collaborating on multiple documents and scales as this combination grows. We also built it with the ability to include new applications, or to serve as a collaboration hub for existing work that people do today. We'll be exploiting these new capabilities even more in future releases. Now that we've built this new foundation, you will be seeing a series of new services and functions throughout the coming year, all aimed at helping you collaborate with others whether they're in your immediate team, or across the firewall in another organization.

      And as always, we've sweated the details. We hope you like the cool new design as much as we do.

      Stay tuned, and thanks for your continued support.

      -- The Acrobat.com Team

      ]]>       http://blogs.adobe.com/acom/2009/11/unity_-_bringing_it_all_togeth.html http://blogs.adobe.com/acom/2009/11/unity_-_bringing_it_all_togeth.html Acrobat.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:01:00 -0800       Any ColdFusion developers out there who are new to Flex? Randy Nielsen Hi all,
      The documentation group is conducting a brief survey to learn more regarding how customers get information about using Flex. In particular, we're studying how ColdFusion developers get started learning Flex. So, if you're a ColdFusion developer who is new to Flex, we'd like your feedback. Please click the link below to take a brief survey on the following topic:

      Creating data-driven applications in Flash Builder 4

      Thanks in advance,
      -Randy

      ]]>       http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2009/11/any_coldfusion_developers_out.html http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2009/11/any_coldfusion_developers_out.html Flex Builder Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:14:22 -0500       (rt) Photography: Lightroom tips for speed-ups, more John Nack
    • Scott Kelby offers a handy set of "10 Things I Would Tell New Lightroom Users."
    • The Lightroom Lab shares Top Ten Lightroom Speed Tips.
    • According to LR engineer Troy Gaul, "Lightroom 2.6, in addition to adding camera support, fixes a visual glitch on Snow Leopard in loupe when panning. [Via]
    • Want a one-screen way to scan popular LR blogs? Check out http://lightroom.alltop.com/. [Via]
    ]]>     http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/11/rt_photography_lightroom_tips_for_speed-up.html http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/11/rt_photography_lightroom_tips_for_speed-up.html Lightroom Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:08:38 -0800     Changes Karl Soule I'm pretty excited about my new role here at Adobe! Last week, I moved into a new role as Technical Evangelist, Dynamic Media.

    I'm already hard at work talking with people in the broadcasting world, helping people as they add or transition to the Adobe video production workflows. Adobe has seen some amazing gains in the broadcasting space, including relationships with the BBC, CNN, Hearst-Argyle, and more. I'm hoping to help grow that area in the future.

    I'll still be creating more episodes of AdobeTV shows, and I'm still active on Twitter (KarlSoule) for anyone needing to get a hold of me quickly.

    ]]>     http://blogs.adobe.com/VideoRoad/2009/11/changes.html http://blogs.adobe.com/VideoRoad/2009/11/changes.html Background info Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:41 -0800