Acro bytes by Kurt Foss

As mentioned in my first Acrobat 8-related blog post just minutes after Adobe’s official announcement went public, several online events were slated for today to introduce the user community to the product in a series of brief interactive demos — utilizing Acrobat Connect Professional — and to provide a brief update on AcrobatUsers.com.

I monitored the first session earlier today, in part to see which features drew the most interest and what types of questions people have at this point. That’ll help us in developing useful articles and information for the website.

We obviously weren’t able to send out our announcement of the Acrobat 8 webinar until Adobe broke the news, and some users have said they didn’t receive the information about today’s events until after the series had begun, or encountered a problem trying to log in.

That doesn’t mean they can’t learn about the new version and see the demos given by Lori DeFurio and Pooja Goyal of Adobe Systems and by expert users Ted Padova, Leonard Rosenthol, Duff Johnson and Thom Parker. The sessions are all being recorded and the best of the three will be posted and made available on AcrobatUsers.com later this week, I’m told. We’ll also summarize and publicly answer the most commonly asked questions from these sessions. Watch for a reference and link from our homepage in the coming days.

Here’s another educational opportunity: You can watch or download a pair of (QuickTime) video podcasts featuring Adobe’s Rick Brown, presented by PodTech.net. In the first, Brown gives an informal, 20-minute demonstration of Acrobat 8, highlighting the new user interface and a number of the new and improved features. In the second, Brown explains why Adobe is continuing to invest in Acrobat.

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