October 26, 2009

Hold the phone! Recent study shows familiar collaboration tools still widely used

What is the number one technology in use today for collaboration by employees in companies across the United States and Europe? According to a recently published study by Forrester Consulting, it is the telephone*. A close joint second are face-to-face meetings and email. Hang on! What about things like wikis and blogs? Sorry, Web 2.0 fans: their usage for collaboration within the enterprise is still relatively low, but will grow.

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September 26, 2009

Shared Reviews with Secured Documents

One of my conference sessions at the Acrobat and PDF Central Conference 2009 was on Extending Features in Adobe Reader (the presentation for that session will be posted soon). In that session, I discussed the importance of the "file preparation order" in Acrobat 9 Pro or Pro Extended for shared reviews with PDF documents that also need to be encrypted or certified.

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September 23, 2009

Acrobat and PDF Central Conference 2009 Has Started!

Today is day one of the Adobe Acrobat and PDF Central Conference 2009 in Minneapolis, MN. It's been great to catch up with my AcroBuddies and meet the attendees, most of whom have not been to an Acrobat conference before. You can follow live tweets from the conference speakers and attendees by following the tag #pdfcon, or just by watching the live feed at http://www.acrobatusers.com/pdfcentral

Stay tuned for more...

August 26, 2009

Acrobat and PDF Central Conference Is Almost Here

In case you had not heard yet, the Acrobat and PDF Central Conference 2009 in Minneapolis, MN is less than a month away. It will be one of those unique opportunities to learn much more - at one time and place - about what you can do with PDF and Acrobat to help you in your work.

If you are planning on being there, please do introduce yourself to me and the real PDF wizards who will be speaking, including Ted Padova, Duff Johnson, Lisa Croft, Thom Parker, Angie Okamoto, Bob Connolly, Keith Gilbert and others.

I will be leading sessions on Extending Features in Adobe Reader, Acrobat.com, Digital Signatures and Commenting and Reviewing Best Practices. But of course, there are lots of other topics to choose from

This is the third time I will be a speaker at the conference. Many of those who attended in the past have commented to me "I had no idea Acrobat could do so much" or "I needed to solve that problem recently, and did not realize Acrobat could have helped me". It's pretty cool to hear that from the perspective of someone who has been using and involved with Acrobat since 1996.

If you have not made a decision yet, or have not heard about the conference, and would like to attend, here's a little secret: become a member of the Acrobat User Community (it's free and easy, unless you are a member already) and you can get a USD100 discount of the regular 2-day conference pass price. Just go to this page on the Acrobat User Community site for the details.

I look forward to seeing you there!

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August 24, 2009

Tip: Don't Double-Up On Your PDF Comments, Double-Click Instead!

Donna Baker posted an important tip to her AcroFacts blog about adding comments to PDF files:

Do you add comments like highlights or ovals, and then add a sticky note comment to explain the first comment? You don’t have to double up the comments like that. Instead, double-click the comment on the page to open a popup note, and type your message. Your users see a miniature comment talk balloon over the comment, indicating there’s an attached message.

It's a matter of personal preference, but if you want to get your message across in the comments you add to a PDF file, say as part of a Shared Review, this is the better way to do it. Otherwise, it can be hard for the person collecting comments and the other reviewers to see how the highlight or drawing markup you added is associated with the separate sticky note you then put somewhere near it.

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