Acrobat Resources

Carl Young Training Associates

Carl Young Training Associates serves customers throughout the United States with high-quality software training and consulting services. We specialize in:

• Adobe Acrobat training for beginning, intermediate and advanced users
• Training to create intelligent, fillable forms for the Web and e-commerce using Adobe Acrobat and Javascript, as well as Adobe LiveCycle Designer
• Courses for those wishing to make their Adobe Acrobat documents Section 508 compliant
• Adobe FrameMaker training for beginning, intermediate and advanced users
• Training for those converting to FrameMaker from other software programs, such as InterLeaf and Word
• Training for those switching from Quark and other page layout programs to InDesign CS
• Consulting services for those creating large documents (500 to 30,000 pages) using FrameMaker.
• Acrobat user group members are eligible for group rates on any CYTA public training event.

Visit their site at www.pdftrain.com.

Sample Tutorials

Nuts and bolts of PDF forms
In the third article in a series, Carl Young outlines a process for using AcroForms to create a fillable PDF form.
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Dance with the devil and the TouchUp Text tool
I'm not a big fan of the Touchup Text tool, even though in this article I am going to explain how to use it to modify text. I dislike the tool so much I always tell students in my Acrobat classes that using the Text Touchup tool is the devil's work. Why am I so hard on a feature of Acrobat that so many people like? Now that I've delivered my little sermon, let's tiptoe around Hades and see how you can modify the onscreen text in a PDF with the potentially dangerous TouchUp Text tool.
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Using form-field recognition in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Among the biggest Acrobat-related hits during the recent 2006 Adobe MAX conference were the hands-on sessions highlighting the new form-field recognition capabilities in Acrobat 8 Professional.
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Preflight tools in Adobe Acrobat 8: Not just for print and prepress
New in Acrobat 8 Professional is the capability to actually repair a PDF. Previous versions were essentially limited to reporting errors only. Acrobat 8 also introduces the concept of a "droplet," for desktop batch processing of files.
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Connecting a PDF Form to a Web Service
In this demo, you'll learn how to connect a PDF form to a web service. No scripting or programming required.
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Simple Calculation Comparison between Acrobat, Designer and Flash
Adobe now has three major form types: AcroForms created with Acrobat, XML forms created with LiveCycle Designer, and Flash forms. This tip shows how to do a simple calculation in each form type.
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Phoenix User Gorup: Acrobat JavaScript tip from Phoenix user-group chapter meeting
Carl Young, co-chapter leader of the Phoenix Acrobat User Group, has posted his presentation on how to utilize JavaScript code and a snippet of code you can use to add a New menu item in Acrobat 7.
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