Adobe Acrobat

2010-05-11 10:00:17

aceandy

Registered: Apr 1 2010

Posts: 3

Hello and welcome to the Online Education Chapter. My name is Andy Hunsucker and I'll be leading this group.

I am currently a Multimedia and Technical Training Specialist at IT Training & Education at Indiana University. I write and present training on a wide variety of Adobe topics, including Acrobat, Photoshop, After Effects and Soundbooth. I am an Adobe Certified Expert in Acrobat and Photoshop.

My goal is to help support students, educators and people who support educational institutions with the use of Acrobat software. To this end, I'd like to hear what projects you are working on with Acrobat, and what projects you'd like to complete that might use Acrobat.

I've got some topics in mind, and will be scheduling some meetings in the coming weeks and months, but the success of this chapter depends on the members themselves feeding me topics. So please post any ideas you have in this forum, and I'll take them into account as I'm working up some presentations.

Since I do Acrobat presentations at IT Training occasionally as well, I will let you know when those are coming up, so you can attend those. They won't be officially Online Education meetings, but will hopefully help you out in your work.

You can join the Online Education Chapter here:

http://www.acrobatusers.com/user_groups/education

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2010-10-09 18:54:51

rickbusch

Registered: Oct 9 2010

Posts: 1

I teach at a local college. We recently completed our first Digital Media Yearbook. The yearbook contains 105 Acrobat files with content including Quicktime video, Flash animation, audio and static PDFs for the portrait section. We distributed the files on a dual layer DVD. No menus, just the files. This year we want to take it to the next level and include menus, navigation, searches and indexing. Can you help me with ideas on how to drastically improve the user experience? Thanks much!

BizStory

2010-10-09 20:15:34

rbogie

Registered: Apr 28 2008

Posts: 432

I am expert at constructing complex and reciprocally interactive collections of multiple PDFs, which function as a unit. Send me your particulars via the forum's contact feature. I will respond and will provide a link where you can download an exemplar of my work. The exemplar is a multiple file interactive set of legal briefs and supporting materials (appendices, exhibits, transcripts and cited authorities); the set is designed to facilitate an appellate judge's review. At 40 MB the exemplar that I'll provide is relatively small for this type of project. The fairly sophisticated techniques that I employ to construct (accurately and efficiently) an interactive set of PDFs are applicable well beyond the legal realm.

2011-03-08 20:13:52

george.joeckel

Registered: Jan 19 2011

Posts: 8

My colleagues and I at Utah State University have created a tool that allows online instructors to post all their assignments as PDFs. The tool is called the PDF Assignment Builder and it opens up in Adobe Reader. An instructor can cut and paste text from any word processor into a dynamic field that will expand to hold the content. The file can be saved and sent to students. When students open the file in Adobe Reader, they can edit the text, print the document and save a copy to send back to the instructor.

The PDF Assignment Builder can be downloaded from our "Faculty Resources" page at http://www.fact.usu.edu/htm/faculty-resources. There is also a link to a "how to" video.

Regards,

George

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