Four more articles
Over the past couple of months, the editors of acrobatusers.com have posted another four articles by yours truly. You’ve probably read them already, but for search-engines and others who appreciate the author’s crude attempts at self-promotion, here’s a very brief summary:
Digital Signatures in Acrobat: The good, the bad and the ugly. This one was somewhat contentious, not everyone at Adobe felt that this article reflected Acrobat 7.0 in the, ahh, best possible light. Too true! Let the marketing haze around “digital signatures” dissipate, and what’s left is the software equivalent of a Mondrian painting - theoretically plausible, but otherwise utterly inscrutable. Read the piece if you want to know more, but you’ve been warned - it does have a significant soporific effect.
Maximizing PDF usability is a short piece devoted to the idea that PDFs are more than the paper on which you (might) eventually print them.
Acrobat Bookmarks: Why and how. Who knew PDFs could bestow comparative advantage! This “docudrama” presents the fortunes of Tightship Associates against their rival, Inefficiency Systems. Guess who makes better use of bookmarks!
Understanding Acrobat’s Optimizer. PDFs don’t have to be large and unpolished. Savvy PDF creators may already know that Acrobat’s PDF Optimizer can radically shrink PDF files - but there’s more to the Optimizer than just shrinking.
