JoAnn Davis recently posted an article on the Acrobat Docs blog that might be of interest to Acrobat gurus.

Many people who use Acrobat have a lot of experience and expertise to share. If you are one of those people, you might be interested in creating a tutorial or tip using the new Adobe Community Publishing System. This new AIR application lets anyone with an Adobe ID publish content on Adobe products and technology directly to Adobe.com.

 

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Normally I wouldn't post something like this but being an Adobe employee, fonts are a passion of mine. "To The Best of Our Knowledge" from Wisconsin Public Radio is one of my favorite podcasts and this week they did an episode all about fonts. Even if you're not a font geek like me you'll find this program interesting and funny.

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If you were not able to make it to MAX 2009 this year or were at MAX and missed some of the Acrobat sessions, here's your chance to catch up. The Acrobat specific presentations have been posted to Adobe TV. The following is a list of the ones that I organized and a few others that I highly recommend watching.

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Several people asked me for a copy of Ian's presentation from MAX 2009. The session has been recorded but not posted yet. However, Ali Hanyaloglu recorded a similar presentation for AcrobatUsers.com. The best part is, even though it's not Ian speaking, you still get to hear the presentation in a British accent.

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Several people asked me for a copy of Leonard's presentation from MAX 2009. The session has been recorded but not posted yet so for now, you can look at the PDF file.

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Adobe MAX 2009 starts this weekend and we want to make sure that everyone can participant in this year’s event. Check out MAX Online -- where people from anywhere in the world can join in the excitement of MAX.

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Enhance your conference experience with the MAX Companion. MAX Companion is a cross-platform, multiscreen social application designed to help you navigate the conference and communicate with other attendees in real time via Twitter. Built with the Adobe® Flash® Platform, MAX Companion is available in two forms, as a desktop download and on a large interactive multitouch screen.

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If you've started to work with the new Acrobat ActionScript API for creating custom PDF Portfolio navigators you'll quickly come to a point where you may want to do some debugging. Unfortunately, the current Acrobat 9 application doesn't provide a true debugging environment. However, you can see errors and get a pretty good understanding of what's going on by simply outputting some trace() statements. Error reporting and trace() is off by default but you can turn it on by adding the following settings to the Windows registry:

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One of my co-Evangelists, Ali Hanyaloglu, will be presenting at the Acrobat and PDF Central Conference happening in Minneapolis September 22-24. The conference features an all-star cast from Adobe and the Acrobat community. Ali, Lisa Croft and Paul Gilbertson from Adobe and PDF gurus like Ted Padova, Duff Johnson, Angie Okamoto, Bob Connolly and Thom Parker will be there to present and meet with Acrobat users like yourselves.

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We recently released the MAX widget. The widget was created with Photoshop and Flex Builder 3 (no Flash authoring involved).

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