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Monday, May 5, 2008
Adobe Announces New Acrobat Connect Pro
Adobe Systems has announced a new version of Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro, the company's comprehensive Web conferencing and eLearning solution. New functionality will enrich online communication and collaboration, enabling organizations and schools to offer more engaging rapid training, interactive virtual classes and dynamic online meetings.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Cadalyst reviews features for converting AutoCAD DWG drawings to PDF
Overview of the features in Acrobat 8 useful to AutoCAD users for working with DWG drawing files and converting them to PDF, including batch conversion, speed, and round-trip redlining

Monday, March 31, 2008
Adobe Cozies Up To Open Source World
Adobe Systems is joining the Linux Foundation and has released an early test version of its Adobe Integrated Runtime (Air) for rich Internet applications.

Monday, March 31, 2008
How to Optimize Your PDFs to Increase SearchTraffic in 10 Steps
Here are 10 steps to optimize your PDFs so you can drive more traffic to your website.

Monday, March 31, 2008
Adobe Q1 boosted by record Acrobat sales
Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive at Adobe said: "Driving our strong performance in Q1 was continued demand for our Creative Suite 3 family of products, as well as another record quarter for our Acrobat product family."

Monday, March 31, 2008
Reference card for accessible-PDF creation from MS Word
There are a lot of PDF files generated though Adobe's PDFMaker plug-in for Microsoft Word. This one-page document helps guide users who may not know much about accessibile PDF creation so that they can more easily address accessibility in their documents.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
PDF Forms and LiveCycle Designer Templates Contest
Enter the PDF Forms and LiveCycle Designer Templates Contest running March 10, 2008 - April 30, 2008. Win prizes, get recognition, contribute to the new gallery.

Friday, March 0, 2008
Windows Mobile to get Flash, PDF support
Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite, the Flash Player runtime for mobile devices, so that Windows Mobile phone users can view Flash content in the Internet Explorer Mobile browser. Microsoft has also licensed the Adobe Reader LE software so that Windows Mobile users will be able to view PDF documents.

Thursday, February 21, 2008
First International PDF/A Conference in Amsterdam
The PDF/A Competence Center is holding its first international PDF/A Conference in Amsterdam on April 10-11. PDF for Archiving specialists from around the globe will be participating in the event.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
PDFs and Search Engines
To determine how search engines are coping with PDF files on the Web, a UK-based search-engine-optimization consultant conducted a series of tests to determine if PDFs rank for keywords, whether links in PDFs are followed, crawled and indexed, and how duplicated content is treated by the top search sites.

Articles

Publishers offer quality content through the 'Ads for Adobe PDF' service
The "Ads for Adobe PDF" service continues in limited beta, but already includes a wide range of publishers who are helping Adobe fine-tune the technology and procedures.
By Kurt Foss, Editor, AcrobatUsers.com

Acrobat 8 named ‘Product of the Year’ by Law Technology News readers
Readers of Law Technology News recently honored Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional as the legal industry's Product of the Year.
By Kurt Foss, Editor, AcrobatUsers.com

Recapping 2007: 'Best of' AcrobatUsers.com statistics
Membership in the Acrobat User Community tripled last year. Here's a brief review of some of the 2007 site highlights, a sort of 'Best of' retrospective from the articles, tutorials, blogs and discussion areas.
By Kurt Foss, Editor, AcrobatUsers.com

Top 10 Little-known Tips for Lawyers Who Use Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro
Roy Greenberg, who has a transactional real estate practice in New York, writes that he is continuously surprised "by the inability of both lawyers and clients to use the most basic functions of Acrobat and the free reader." Accordingly, he offers his ten best tips for using Acrobat 8 Professional.
by Roy Greenberg/TechnoLawyer.com

Adobe seeks Ads for Adobe PDF beta participants
Adobe Systems is seeking beta participants for a new publishing service--in partnership with Yahoo!--that allows the inclusion of contextually relevant ads to PDF-based content.
by Kurt Foss, Editor, AcrobatUsers.com

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