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Last week I was lucky enough to give four classes and a keynote (sounds like a movie title to me) at the Acrobat and PDF Central Conference 2008 in Minneapolis, MN. One of the sessions I attended was on Comment and Review Best Practices, which was very well presented by Keith Gilbert of Gibert Consulting. He shared some great tips for marking up documents efficiently which I hope to write about some more. One of the suggestions he had was to make sure that Callout Tool text box should NOT be placed on top of page content as you cannot see what's underneath it.

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Posted by Ali Hanyaloglu at 09:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Not really anything to do with collaboration and Acrobat - well maybe it is. But that's a discussion for another day. Anyway, there are some new PDF Portfolio Layouts available for download for Acrobat 9 Pro and Pro Extended for Mac and Windows in many languages.

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Posted by Ali Hanyaloglu at 06:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Adobe's PDF Technical Evangelist, Joel Geraci, has written a great article on how to review and markup Flash content in a PDF document using Acrobat 9.

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Posted by Ali Hanyaloglu at 02:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sorry for the gap in postings. Summer vacations. You understand. Not long to go until the Acrobat and PDF Central Conference in Minneapolis, MN (USA) from September 23-25.

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Posted by Ali Hanyaloglu at 12:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Or so someone once said. Another person also said that "there are no shortcuts to Life's greatest achievements." Well, getting everyone's feedback on time and easily so I can achieve my writing goals and deadlines is an achievement for me, and I use some shortcuts - of the keyboarding kind, that is. Here are some you can use right away with the commenting tools in Acrobat or Reader (when the document is enabled for commenting).

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Posted by Ali Hanyaloglu at 07:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)