If you can manage to find all the commands you need in the menus, task panes, Quick Tools, or other toolbars, you’ll find that Acrobat X Pro is a fantastic program with universal function improvement, phenomenal content-exporting capabilities, incredible power to automate task- and document- processing, and compelling document-distribution capabilities. Unfortunately, Acrobat X’s messy and unintuitive new user interface throttles the excitement somewhat and makes this less than a must-buy application.
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich issued a subpoena to President Barack Obama in April 2010. Not so surprising. Then the Chicago Tribune did what newspapers are supposed to do and reported on the subpoena. They not only reported on it, but also published a copy of the legal document, with certain elements redacted. Unfortunately, the document provided by Aaron Goldstein, Blagojevich’s lawyer, wasn’t redacted correctly, and the complete text is available to any kid with a copy of Acrobat Professional.
There’s a not-so-new copyright infringement threat that seems to be becoming even more prevalent these days — so-called PDF search engines. In the last two weeks alone I received notification that three of these sites were publishing my content without a license or permission.
What’s happening? Well, these sites purport to be about helping you find .pdf files. First of all that often means they’re hotlinking files (linking directly to the download and not to the download page on the publisher’s site, which is often against the terms of use). But the bigger problem is that some of these sites are making your entire .pdf document available for viewing on their own site.
The secret sauce in Flash Player 10.2 is called Stage Video, a hardware accelerator that allows websites to speed up the video delivery process. “Stage Video can effortlessly play beautiful 1080p HD video with just 1-15% CPU usage on a common Mac or Windows computer,” Adobe product manager Tom Nguyen wrote in a blog post. “Working across platforms and browsers, it will enable the best video experience for the most people. Many millions of additional PCs, from netbooks to desktops, can now become slick HD home theaters on the web.”
PDF is an excellent format for many business materials that you post on your company website, such as flyers, resumes, company statistics, product information, and so on. Many business owners, however, feel that they cannot or should not use PDFs on their website for fear of hurting their search engine rankings. In actuality, PDFs can be optimized for the search engines just like any HTML Web page. Here are 5 SEO tips to help you create PDFs that will get the attention of the search engine spiders.
InDesign CS5.5, brings with it several improvements. Several that you don’t have to do anything about. They’re just there, and work! You can continue using the same workflows.
Accessible PDF documents is one such area. You can create accessible PDFs for Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, or other software such as screen readers. InDesign CS5.5 automatically adds tags for the following:
Most Acrobat 9 menus have moved to a corresponding panel in the Tools, Comment, or Share pane.
For customers who prefer to remain on the current licensing model, we will continue to offer our individual point products and Adobe Creative Suite editions as perpetual licenses. With regards to upgrades, we are changing our policy for perpetual license customers. In order to qualify for upgrade pricing when CS6 releases, customers will need to be on the latest version of our software (either CS5 or CS5.5 editions). If our customers are not yet on those versions, we’re offering a 20% discount through December 31, 2011 which will qualify them for upgrade pricing when we release CS6.
We all use PDFs and Adobe Acrobat on a regular basis—the modern world couldn’t function without PDFs. Still, despite the constant use, there are many features and almost mystical powers within Acrobat Pro that even the most experienced users don’t know about. In this 2-hour session we’ll explore those hidden gems and what they can do in the real world for you and your work.
Acrobat's Stamp tool can prevent a lot of confusion if you use it for things like explaining Lorem Ipsum placeholder text and FPO images on client proofs. But rather than settling for Acrobat's generic stamps, you can create your own. Yeehaw!
"The Facebook Button for Acrobat will automatically launch a new browser window with a Facebook Feed Dialog that contains the document title, subject, and a description. Users will have the opportunity to add their own message before sharing."
"The QR Code Link Generator for Acrobat is a Flash widget that can be placed on any PDF page and configured to display a QR code that links to any web page. The widget is designed to display the QR code in Adobe Reader 9 and higher; earlier versions and other PDF viewers may not play this widget properly."