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Adobe interview: Ali Hanyaloglu
AcrobatUsers.com editor Kurt Foss talks with Ali Hanyaloglu, Technical Evangelist for Acrobat in Education at Adobe Systems, about his role as the company’s go-to guy for Acrobat in the educational market in North America. 

Getting started with Acrobat forms
The first in a series of related articles by PDF Conference founder Carl Young looks at some of the fundamental issues – often overlooked – in creating and using Acrobat forms.

Acrobat 3D case study: Atrus
A new case study posted in the Acrobat 3D Corner explains and illustrates how Atrus, Inc. utilizes Acrobat 3D Capture to create 3D PDF files of contour plots for distribution to client engineering teams for electronic review and comment. Among other benefits, it replaces the need to send multiple 2D screenshots. 

Acrobat and PDF overview
In this introduction to Acrobat, Ted Padova, author of the ‘Acrobat and PDF Bible’ series and numerous other books, offers his observations on how and why PDF has become a de facto standard for many industries such as creative professionals, architects, engineers, legal professionals, general office workers, IT, HR, marketing and more.

Maximizing PDF usability
Duff Johnson offers some guidelines for optimizing PDF files with usability in mind, including tips for designing new documents and improving others.

E-mail archiving with Acrobat
Donna Baker looks at how a small business can set up an e-mail archiving workflow using Acrobat and PDF to create a single, searchable and bookmarked file.