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Tomorrow, June 24, at 12pm PDT, Erik Larson from the Acrobat.com team will be hosting and presenting an interactive eSeminar. That means it won't be a one-way conversation, so bring your questions, comments and ideas.

Visit the Acrobat.com blog for the Meeting URL.

You can follow Erik on Twitter: @erikdlarson. I'm there too: @acroboy is the name you can follow.

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Last month Adobe launched a free beta of Acrobat.com Presentations. The family is continuing to grow with the very exciting addition of Acrobat.com Tables and new Premium subscription services. Congratulations to the Acrobat.com team!

Firstly, Acrobat.com Tables extends the brilliant collaborative authoring environment of Buzzword and Presentations to spreadsheets and tables. Rather than me giving you the lowdown on it's capabilities for working together as a team in realtime, check out the crash course on the labs site or the Acrobat.com blog.

The other big news is that Premium service subscriptions are now available. There are services that continue to be freely available, but for a monthly or yearly fee, you can now access additional capabilities such as larger online meetings with ConnectNow, unlimited online PDF creation, larger file sharing and 1-to-1 support. As a thank you to the 5 million people who signed up for the beta, the Acrobat.com team are offering a US$50 discount on annual subscriptions. How very generous of them!

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Another good question came through recently. It just happened to be a topic that I did not get a chance to cover at my "Review and Commenting" eSeminar for AcrobatUsers.com.

"What does the Migrate Comments command do, and how should I use the Migration status flags?"

Continue reading "How Do I Use The Migrate Comments Command?" »

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As you know Adobe Acrobat is a family. And so is Acrobat.com, with a new addition called Acrobat.com Presentations. This has just been launched as a free beta on Adobe Labs, and all you need to get started using it is an Adobe ID, a web browser and the Adobe Flash Player.

Acrobat.com Presentations allows you to create some fantastic looking presentations online quickly and easily. So what's the big deal about that? Well, you can do this is in a collaborative way with others at the same time. Just as you can share documents authored in Buzzword, or files using Acrobat.com Share, you can share an online presentation with others, and let them be either a viewer or, better yet, a co-author. Giving those individuals that you need to work with the ability to author a document at the same time as you can help to make the presentation the best that it can be.

If you then want to give others the ability to review the presentation but not have access to it online, you have the option to export and download the presentation as a PDF file, then use Acrobat 8 and 9's Shared Reviews functionality to allow them to add and submit comments and markup.

Check it out for yourself at http://labs.acrobat.com, or read the Acrobat.com blog or follow the team via Twitter. And let them know what you think and what you would like to see via http://ideas.acrobat.com.

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Wow, is it really the middle of May already? What happened to the time? I am sorry for not getting the opportunity to post anything over the last few weeks. What with spring vacations with the family, taking advantage of any nice day there is to get the garden in shape, the excitement over the new Star Trek movie, and lots of Acrobat-related projects that I have been working on, it has been hard to pay attention to you all. So please do accept my apologies.

While I was working on those other things, there have been some interesting developments in Acrobat-land:

• The Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader 9.1.1, 8.1.5 and 7.1.2 updates were released last week to address security vulnerabilities. If you have not done so already, it would be well worth subscribing to the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) and Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) blogs to stay up-to-date.
• Acrobat won a 2009 CODiE Award! The SIIA gave Acrobat 9 Pro Extended the award for Best Multi-Media Solution. What an honor! Our friends on the Acrobat.com, Creative Suite 4, LiveCycle and Captivate teams also won CODiE's. How cool is that?
• Amazon released the larger format Kindle DX. There is plenty of coverage of the eBook reading device already, and I do not have one (yet) to provide any comments, but the interesting news from Adobe's perspective is that Amazon (amongst others) is using the Adobe Reader Mobile SDK for built-in PDF viewing. Bill McCoy, who heads up Adobe's ePublishing Business wrote an article on this.
• Layers Magazine published their Fourth Annual Layers 100 Wicked Tips for all Adobe Creative Suite 4 applications. Lori DeFurio and I contributed 10 short tips on Acrobat 9 Pro for you to check out: they are about 1/3 of the way down (I wish the site authors had placed anchors, oh well). The other product tips are pretty good too.
• Speaking of Lori, her new show on Adobe TV called "Lori's Corner" was launched last week. Her first show has been posted, with her first very special guest: ME! Check it out, and let Lori (or me) know what you think. All I will say for now is, yes, we had considered wearing smoking jackets and holding brandy glasses, but Adobe legal would not allow it (just kidding). Enjoy!

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