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I will be skipping lunch on Wednesday February 18, 2009 at 1pm ET/10am PT/6pm GMT and joining the Acrobat User Community online to give a one-hour eSeminar on Review and Commenting with Acrobat 9. The direct link to register is here.

As listed on the website, I will be covering the following topics:

• Preparing a document for review, including enabling the commenting tools in Adobe Reader


• Sending documents for Email-based Reviews


• Sending documents for Shared Reviews


• Participating in document reviews, including tips for using the comment and markup tools


• Tracking and managing reviews using the Review Tracker


• Ending the review cycle using Acrobat - or starting all over again!

So whether the closest you have come to document reviews with Acrobat or Reader is printing a PDF file and writing all over it with a red pen, or if you have set up a browser-based review in the past and want to know what the deal is with these Shared Reviews, then please do join us. I will do my best to have something for everyone in that short hour we will have together online. I will also have some of my Acrobat guru friends from AcrobatUsers.com joining me to answer your questions live during that hour.

Posted by Ali Hanyaloglu at 6:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Technical Evangelist Joel Geraci recently posted an article, video and a "kit" for Acrobat 9 deployment. He has included the Adobe Customization Wizard 9, which allows IT managers to set default configurations for both Acrobat 9 and Adobe Reader 9 on Windows prior to deployment, including document collaboration settings.

This includes setting the following collaboration and commenting features for all users whom the customized installer is deployed to:

• Disabling all Acrobat.com features, for those in a locked-down environment where users cannot post any data to an external server
• Disable only specific Acrobat.com features, such as the ability to initiate of Shared Reviews; initiation of live collaboration and screen sharing; the 'Go to Acrobat.com' menu item; sharing documents via Acrobat.com; and Buzzword document creation
• Add preconfigured network folder, web server folder (WebDAV) or Microsoft SharePoint Workspace servers locations for Shared Reviews
• Add custom or browser-based online comment repositories for legacy workflows
• Changing the default file types that can be attached to PDF documents (for security purposes)

There are a whole host of other settings that can be preconfigured using this tool, including a direct MSI installation table editor and a Registry key tool, so check out Joel's blog or go to the Adobe Customization Wizard 9 page here for more information, including a link to download it (it's free, by the way). Documentation on deploying Acrobat and Reader can also be obtained from the Adobe Developer Connection.

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