Recapping 2007: 'Best of' AcrobatUsers.com statistics

By Kurt Foss, Editor, AcrobatUsers.com

2007 was very successful for the Acrobat User Community, as membership tripled to a total of 22,225 by year's end. While it’s still early in the new year, here’s a brief glance back at some of the 2007 highlights, a sort of 'Best of' retrospective from the articles, tutorials, blogs and discussion areas.

Some of the top year-end statistical results (using varied measurement criteria) in various content-related categories include:

Most popular tutorial

1. Using form field recognition
   by Carl Young

2. Creating a custom dynamic stamp
   by Lori DeFurio

3. 101 forms etips
   by Ted Padova

4. All together now, making a cohesive PDF document
   by Donna Baker

5. Starting fresh: Creating a new PDF file
   by Donna Baker

Top 5 most popular articles

1. Top reasons to upgrade to Acrobat 8.1, Adobe Reader 8.1
   by Ted Padova

2. More Enabling Features for Adobe Reader
   by Ted Padova

3. Adobe Designer or Acrobat Forms?
   by Carl Young

4. First Look: Adobe Acrobat 8
   by Kurt Foss

5. PDF Bookmarks: Surveying the options
   by Duff Johnson

User-group chapter with greatest number of members

• New York City - 2330 members

Newest user-group chapter

• Argentina – 11 members

Most active user-group chapter

• Seattle - held seven meetings during 2007

Top 5 most prolific AUC bloggers

1. Kurt Foss, Acro bytes, 27 posts

2. Duff Johnson, PDF Perspective, 24 posts

3. Ted Padova, AUC Blog, 16 posts

4. Carl Young, AcroViews, 13 posts

5. Thom Parker, Acrobat JavaScript Revealed, 11 posts

Top 5 most active experts

1. Thom Parker, 829 responses

2. Ted Padova, 693 responses

3. Lori Kassuba, 561 responses

4. Eugene Williams, 535 responses

5. Dimitri Munkirs, 318 responses

Finally, toward the end of last year we conducted a member survey on the site and asked you to tell us which Acrobat-related topics were of most interest to you—to help us plan future articles, tips, tutorials and so on. Here’s what we learned from your feedback:

Topics that interested you the most:

1. Creating basic fillable forms
2. Combining files into a PDF package
3. Advanced forms and LiveCycle Designer
4. Creating PDF files
5. Securing documents with passwords and permissions

Visit AcrobatUsers.com for upcoming eSeminars on these topics and more. And we look forward to your continued participation and feedback throughout 2008.