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In a few minutes Comtaste will start an eSeminar for Adobe Italy on the following topic :
Digital Signature and Security with Acrobat 7 Professional
The event is free but you have to register to Adobe site (italian language).
"(PDF and Flash) both have huge reach across the internet: hundreds of millions of people. I think the Flash player is in 98 per cent of desktops."
"People should expect to see that much of what we do in the future will be designed to take advantage of that platform: the combination of the PDF reader and Flash player,"
This is what Mr Elop, Adobe, said in the "Adobe no Flash in the pan for mobile solutions" interview by BizTech.
He gives the example of an online loan application site, which uses Flash to display the options in an interactive way, then a PDF form for the final application.
Adobe expects mobile phones will be another big market for the Flash/PDF combination. "This is at the heart of our strategy," he says. "We want (Flash/PDF) to be the cross-platform choice. For mobile devices, set-top boxes, digital television sets, gaming platforms, car navigation, aircraft entertainment, the list goes on and on."
Find out what's happened in the Acrobat User Community during the last month reading the AUC News (June 2006 issue).
AUC News is the newsletter for the Acrobat user community and it's the perfect way to stay up-to-date on Acrobat and Adobe PDF and get the latest news from the Acrobat user group community.
In this issue:
- Install Windows XP on a Mac
- Acrobat & PDF showcased in Orlando
- Adobe interview: Rick Brown
- TIP: Enable Reader 7.0 for Commenting
- NEW: AcrobatUsers.com enabled for comments
- NEW: Ziff-Davis Media news feeds
- NEW: RSS feeds deliver news & articles to your desktop
- TIP: Using Acrobat 7.0 & Adobe Bridge as news readers
- COMING: Tech Corner on Acrobat 3D
- COMING: Tech Corner on PDF printing and publishing
- Where in the world is Lori DeFurio?
- Upcoming chapter meetings
I started viewing the Mike Potter's presentation on LiveCycle but I missed the end of the great seminar due to the football match of Italy soccer team :)
Sorry Mike ... but you're presentation was very interesting !
Introduction to Adobe LiveCycle - Mike Potter, Web and Open Source Technical Evangelist
Today we had the second Acrobat Meeting event.
Special Guest: Lori DeFurio from Adobe.
Lori DeFurio, Acrobat Customer and Field enablement- Adobe Systems Inc. made an introduction to PDF Forms, FDF, XML Forms and designing Forms with PDF and Acrobat 7.
I talked about the Stanca's Law n.4 Accessibility Tecniques with Acrobat 7 in order to make your PDF documents accessible.
I can't wait to see the photos published !
Stop by the Acrobat User Community booth at the Adobe Acrobat & PDF Conference in Orlando, Florida, on May 17 and 18, and talk with Acrobat experts like Ted Padova, Thom Parker, Leonard Rosenthol, Ali Hanyaloglu, and Lori DeFurio. Come prepared to ask questions and get answers. It’s also a great opportunity to network and meet other members of the community.
Schedule
| Time | Wednesday, May 17 | Thursday, May 18 |
| 10:00-11:00 am | Ted Padova | Bob Connolly |
| 11:00-12:00 noon | Thom Parker | Leonard Rosenthol |
| 12:00-1:00 pm | Lori DeFurio | Ali Hanyaloglu |
| 1:00-2:00 pm | Lori DeFurio | Thom Parker |
| 2:00-3:00 pm | Ali Hanyaloglu | Ted Padova |
Join the Acrobat User Community at the Adobe Acrobat & PDF Conference on May 17–18 in Orlando, Florida. This is the place to meet other members of the user community and key Acrobat team members, learn about the future direction of Acrobat, and discover how to get the most out of Acrobat and PDF. Be sure and register for the Adobe User Group Breakfast on Thursday, May 18, from 7:00-8:30. We’ll have chapter leaders, Adobe speakers, and plenty of free giveaways!
• Learn more about the conference
• Sign up for the breakfast
This is the last reminder for the Adobe LiveCycle 7.1 Breeze presentation.
The session starts at 12:00 Noon ET today (3rd May) and last between 60 and 90 minutes.
URL: adobe.breezecentral.com/r90735129/.
In Italy it will be at 09 pm (21.00). You can check from a time converter site.
If you are unable to attend live, we will be creating a recording of the session as well.
It's a pleasure to announce the next Acrobat User Group in Milan that will have a Special guest : Lori DeFurio. I'll have a speech on "Stanca's Law n.4 Accessibility Tecniques with Acrobat 7: Make your PDF documents accessible".
Milan
Acrobat User Group Meeting
T.B.D.
Mon, May 22, 2006, 3:00 PM
Meeting details
Agenda
- Introduction and AUG Italy presentation Adobe Italy team
- Stanca's Law n.4 Accessibility Tecniques with Acrobat 7: Make your PDF documents accessible - Marco Casario
- Design Forms with PDF and Acrobat 7 - Lori DeFurio
- Q&ALog in and register for this meeting.
More details have to come. Stay Tuned !
We're planning a new meeting for our Acrobat User Group on May. Stay tuned because we're going to announce the event during these days.
For now you can have an overview of the last AUG meeting where I and Guido Orsi (Adobe Italy) covered an ‘Introduction to Acrobat product family’ and ‘PDF Accessibility"
downloading my PDF_Accessibility slides in PDF format or viewing the Breezo with the audio recorded of the same presentation.
Breezo of my presentation on the topic PDF, Acrobat 7 and Accessibility (italian language)
On December 15, 2005 we organized the first Acrobat User Group event in Italy.
ple attended and a number of them have expressed an interest in joining the group in Rome or Milan and are eager to come to the next meeting.
That is, I believe is a further confirmation of general interest in the initiative of an Acrobat User Group in Italy. You can see more notes and photos on AcrobatUsers site.
The two key topics that we covered were ‘Introduction to Acrobat product family’ and ‘PDF Accessibility" I have to say that a particular interest arose from the discussion about accessibility.
I decided to translate into english my "PDF_Accessibility " presentation and make it available to download.
Download PDF_Accessibility in PDF format (of course :) ).
If you want the italian version fell free to ask me !
Continue reading "How to make a PDF Accessible with Adobe Acrobat 7" »
Next month will be held a Breeze presentation on Adobe LiveCycle Designer where will be presented :
Adobe LiveCycle Designer allows the creation of forms with XML data handling usign an intuitive and simple to use IDE.
Therefore recently it has been released as free plugin the LiveCycle Designer by Eclipse e Rational.
Recently the Adobe PDF format has been recognized valid as format for digital signature by CNIPA.
Nicola Bugini, Adobe Senior Application Engineer, published a great article on Acrobat User Group Italy blog where he explains how to apply a digital signature in a PDF document using Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional.
The article is in italian language but you can translate it into english :)
For more info on digital signature and PDF visit the Adobe site (english version)
Adobe announced a new resource for Acrobat Users :
Our premiere issue of AUC News is now available. Find out what's happened in the
Acrobat User Community during the last month.
In This Issue:
- Googling for PDF
- AcrobatUsers.com surpasses 1,000 member mark!
- New York meeting great success
- Join us at PDF 2006
- Slice of PDF Pi
- How to add video to your PDF file
The April 2006 issue of AUC News, the free monthly newsletter for the Acrobat
User Community, is now available at:
<http://www.acrobatusers.com/news/aucnews/2006/04/v1/>
We recently start a site dedicated to Acrobat User Group in Italy : blog.mondoadobe.com.
So join us and subscribe to AcrobatUsers.com !
AcrobatUsers.com publihsed new articles for the community of PDF users (thanks to Kurt adn Lori) :Designing with PDF: Then and now
In 1994, Chris Converse produced a “Designing for Acrobat” guide to introduce other designers to the potential for and challenges in creating interactive PDF files. He's updated it for 2006, sharing his insights and methods.
FormRouter's Reader Extensions service: Extra features for fair price
Through a unique Adobe partnership, FormRouter offers a service to allow small- and mid-sized businesses to fulfill an age-old user request: locally saving form-entered data with the free Reader.
by Kurt Foss, editor, AcrobatUsers.com
Acrobat JavaScript tip from Phoenix user-group chapter meeting
Carl Young, co-chapter leader of the Acrobat User Group in Phoenix, AZ, offers for download a snippet of JavaScript code for adding a New menu item in Acrobat 7. His presentation, also posted, from the chapter's recent meeting includes details on how to utilize the JavaScript.
Two great resources from Adobe for Acrobat Users.
Lori De Furio pointed out that Adobe's developer technologies team has posted a document on how to remove sensitive information from a PDF.
Have also a look at the comments of that post where Lori explained that the document is being updated as we speak (she'll repost to her blog when the updated version is live) after that they'll add some information on Redax , a very integral part of many PDF redaction workflows, and used by many federal agencies to adhere to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Thanks to John Landwehr for his post on the proper way to redact documents in their source form and PDF.
Adobe has written a whitepaper titled "Redaction of Confidential Information in a Document".
Moreover, the National Security Agency Information Assurance Directorate has also provided guidance in a document titled: "Redacting with Confidence: How to Safely Publish Sanitized Reports Converted from Word to PDF"
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Technorati: Acrobat/PDFOne of the annoying issues I have to manage with my PDF production is to repeat the same operation in many pages of more than document.
With Acrobat 7 it's now possible to use a batch sequence to define from a set of operations what you want to do choosing which files to modify and where to store the finished file.
Acrobat 7 allows to choose from 8 different batch operations (comments, documents, pages, etc.) that give you a large range of possibilities : opening files, printing, deleting comments, adding headers and footers, description.
In our example we'll add a Header & Footer section to our pdf documents. Open Acrobat 7 Professional and :
Have also a look at Whip up a batch of watermarks article from Adobe site.
Bookmark on del.icio.usDigg this siteTechnorati: Acrobat/PDFSome weeks ago Adobe announced the AcrobatUsers.com site, a new Adobe-supported, user-driven website we hope will become a frequent oasis for the global community of Adobe Acrobat enthusiasts.
A page was added titled Adobe Discussion, where you can find blogs and discussion forums related to Acrobat :
Acrobat for Legal Professionals
by Rick Borstein
Business Development Manager, Adobe
blogs.adobe.com/lacrolawLori DeFurio Blog
by Lori Defurio
Customer and Field Enablement, Knowledge Worker Solutions, Adobe
blogs.adobe.com/loridefurioAcrobat in Education
by Ali Hanyaloglu
Business Development Manager, Adobe
blogs.adobe.com/lacrobatineducationAcrobat: Hands on Adobe World
by Marco Casario
Adobe Acrobat UG Chapter Leader
casario.blogs.com/mmworld/acrobat
Torino2006 Winter Games are officially over.
The record of Torino2006 is impressive: on February 22nd, over 71 million pages were visited by 2 million single users; the average, in the 15 days of Games, reached 11% more than Athens and almost 300% more than Salt Lake City.
All of the downloadable documents were in PDF format. See for example the page for the Torino 2006 Spectator Guide.
For a recent project I needed only some of the images inside the PDF.
With Acrobat is possible to export images when you choose to export the PDF in HTML format. In fact in the Export dialog window you can choose to export only the images :
You can limit the exported images using the default size setting (under Exclude Images smaller than option).
For example you can decide to prevent export for all images with the size of 3 inches ! Cool !!
I work as consultant for a company that used to distribute to its clients a magazine about news and marketing information.
The magazine is created with Adobe Indesign and we used to send the magazine via email in a PDF format.
In Adobe Indesign is very easy to export in PDF :
If you want you can create a new preset in Indesign under File > PDF Export Presets > Define.
A dialog box window open, where you can choose the name of your preset and all its settings. Your customized preset will now be added to the menu list (File > PDF Export Presets ).
Too easy but very powerful !
Adobe LiveCycle is an incredible and powerful product.
Adobe has launched the LiveCycle Performance Center, a resource that provides uidelines for improving and troubleshooting performance-related issues of your Adobe LiveCycle enterprise applications.
These are some of the tutorials you'll find :
Improving the Performance of Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.1 Forms (PDF: 548KB)
These guidelines apply to LiveCycle Designer 7.1 and Adobe LiveCycle Forms 7.1. They will help you create and maintain LiveCycle Designer 7.1 forms for optimal performance and troubleshoot performance-related issues.
Improving the Performance of LiveCycle Designer 7.0 Forms (PDF: 420KB)
These guidelines will help you create and maintain LiveCycle Designer 7.0 forms for optimal performance and troubleshoot performance-related issues.
I often use to send (yes I know I'm not the only) PDF via email.
An important issue is the file size. In Acrobat 7 to get the dimension of your document go to File > Document Properties and select the Description tag.
I apply several tecniques in order to reduce the size of my PDFs:
Now all you have to do is to send the optimized pdf via email : go to File > Email and a email dialog window opens !
Don't miss the Adobe Reduce PDF file size article.
I read what Bruce Chizen, chief executive officer of Adobe, said after the acquisition "By combining our powerful development, authoring and collaboration software - along with the complementary functionality of PDF and Flash - Adobe has the opportunity to bring this vision to life with an industry-defining technology platform".
Since now we can use FlashPaper 2 to create a PDF (or a SWF) from every printable document and we can also embed Flash files into PDF documents.
These are a few and simple steps to place a SWF file in a PDF using Adobe Acrobat 7 :
Pay attention to your SWF, I noticed some problem with compressed SWF file.
Today starts the Adobe 3Documents for AEC Roadshow. With partners like Bentley and Hewlett Packard that will show how use Adobe Acrobat 3D software to enriche collaboration by enabling extended teams to use Adobe PDF documents to more securely and reliably communicate 3D design intent.
Insert and publish 3D designs from major CAD applications in Adobe PDF documents that can easily be shared with suppliers, partners, and customers using free Adobe Reader® 7.0 software.
This is the full tour in several italian cities :
21 febbraio, Roma - Abitart Hotel
22 Febbraio, Firenze - OtelVarieté
23 Febbraio, Trento - Boscolo Grand Hotel
28 Febbraio, Milano - Porta Vittoria 16
See you there !
In the last post I talked about PDF and Accessibility, and we start considering to tag our pdf documents in order to improve the accessibility level.
I found this great article that tells you all you have to know on PDF and Tags: What are PDF tags and why should I care? (by Duff Johnson). It's a must-read article.
This is the final summary:
A PDF file equipped with quality-controlled tags may be read effectively using a screen-reader or other assistive technology that reads PDF tags. If the PDF file is also optimized for reflowing of content, it will read well using assistive technologies that do not use PDF tags, as well as on mobile devices. If accessibility is important (or mandatory), or if you want your files to work well on mobile devices, then you need to learn to tag your PDFs
PDF offers a range of options, tools and wizards that allow users to create document more accesible and with Acrobat 7, PDF is now able to communicate more effectively with screen readers.
This is a first of a long series of tips on PDF and Acessibility.
In order to make your PDF accessible you must control the following features:
keyboard and scroll navigation
improve texts for speech reader softwares
make your PDF "tagged"
support for high-contrast viewing, and the ability to zoom in and reflow text on the screen
Tip #1 : Tag PDFs
To tag a document in Acrobat is very simple. From menu View > Navigation Tabs > Tags open the Tags panel that shows you the document's tags in a hierarchy.
In order to obtain a well tagged document you can let Acrbat make the work for you, adding tags automatically. From menu item Advanced > Accessibility > choose Add Tags item.
Characteristics of a properly tagged PDF (via PDFPlanet):
One of the best practise that every web developer should care of might be a smart use of a specific css for printing. I can't understand why so many sites nowdays still soffer of a bad printing.
I hate when I launch a print of a webpage and obtain an unreadable paper. It's a waste of time, paper and ink ! :(
So I used to copy and paste the content on that page, open Word, change some formatting stuff and finally print it !
Recently I found an interesting alternative that makes use of PDFMaker.
PDFMAker is a tool that Acrobat installs in Internet Explorer (and Microsoft Office) that allows you to quickly convert a webpage or a portion of it (selecting only the text you want to convert) to PDF.
You'll find the PDFMAker pull-down icon on your Internet Explorer Toolbar (after installing Adobe Acrobat).
This is very useful because you can control the margin, the page sizes, setting a custom size, a page range and many other options.
With a few steps you'll convert aa page to PDF:
The game is over ! Simple as one two !
AcrobatUsers.com, online home of the Acrobat User Community, is now live at http://www.acrobatusers.com/. Much has been accomplished behind the scenes during the past three months, and there's a lot more yet to come.
I'm the Chapter Leader for Acrobat User Group in Rome/Milan (Italy).On December we organized our first meeting event where the two key topics that we covered were ‘Introduction to Acrobat product family’ and Accessibility. I have to say that a particular interest arose from the discussion about accessibility. In addition, a lot of interest was shown by participants on PDF forms, which I believe is a topic that should be highlighted in the next meeting agenda.
Visit the Meeting Notes Archives on Acrobat site to know more !
Next meeting is scheduled for April in Milan.
Via Lori DeFurio blog I read that today Adobe released an update to the Adobe Reader 7.0.7 to fix some bugs related to Flash 8 contents embedded and including the support fro the new Acrobat3D.
Therefore I wanted to give you a reminder : Adobe will present Acrobat3D product in Italy on :
21 Feb, Rome - Abitart Hotel
22 Feb, Florence - OtelVarieté
23 Feb, Trento - Boscolo Grand Hotel
28 Feb, Milan - Porta Vittoria 16
time : 14.30 - 18.30
This is just another little tip that allows you to open a pdf document viewing it in a Full Screen view :
In this window you can also choose a color for your background; the default color is black.
With these two simple steps the magic is done and your document will open in full screen.
In the last 2 months I spent much time for a project where we did a lot use of PDF documents.
I learned a lot particularly on optimizing the creation process of PDF so I decided to share these information.
So I wrote the first of a long series of PDF articles/tips dedicated to :
How to best rank you PDF documents in Google
Unfortunately it's in italian language, but here it is a brief summary in english :
