Chattanooga Acrobat User Group

Meeting Notes Archive

January 14, 2008

Summary of the Chattanooga Acrobat Users Meeting

The Chattanooga Acrobat Users Group met on January 14, 2008. After a very nice dinner catered by the Country Place Restaurant, Tom Carson presented a program on ways to use Acrobat to make any office paperless while at the same time running more efficiently. A number of the participants were from the school system and asked many questions on a variety of uses like how to take data from the Internet and put it into an interactive PDF. Others were intrigued with the idea of putting student records from the time before school management systems and discipline files in searchable templates so that they can be accessed by anyone with a password from any computer. HR people were interested in the idea of creating a template to manage and access personnel files without paper.

Templates were also shown for organizing case files for attorneys which can hold any type of artifact relevant to a legal case, as well as a template to manage and organize major construction projects from an office or building site without paper. One person had developed a template to organize thousands of pages of sheet music which are searchable and printable when needed. All in all, there appeared to be something for everyone in the program. Participants went away with an understanding that the possibilities are limited only by the vision of the user.