PDF Conference 2007 goes online with Acrobat Connect
The “first and longest-running conference dedicated exclusively to PDF and Acrobat”–the PDF Conference, hosted by Carl Young–is on the verge of another ‘first’ later this month.
With company travel budgets slashed in recent years, many employees have been unable to get approval to attend career-enriching conferences and workshops. In the same timeframe, advancements in communications technologies and tools have continued to expand the possibilities for distance education courses and similar online-only experiences.
Fellow AUC blogger Young cited both circumstances in his recent announcement that the PDF Conference, launched in 2000, is adopting a new look and format–bringing the conference to users with a series of online events. First up is “Optimize Your Workflow with PDF Forms,” being conducted March 20-21 and enabled by Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional. There are other topical online events being scheduled throughout 2007.
“By moving to an online event, I can offer the same great PDF insights to more people at a lower cost,” says Young.
The upcoming March event includes six hour-long sessions–with separate east- and west-coast starting times–over two days, and feature some of the same expert speakers as previous PDF Conferences. And the cost is as low as $38 per topical session. NOTE: Early registration has been extended to Friday, March 2.
March 20 sessions include:
• Carl Young: “Acrobat AcroForms or LiveCycle Designer XML Forms, and Can I Use Both?”
• Ted Padova: “Leverage the New Forms Features in Acrobat 8.0″
• Al Weisner: “Using LiveCycle Forms to Automate Enrollment in the VA Health Care System”
March 21 sessions include:
• Thom Parker: “JavaScript for Adobe LiveCycle Designer”
• Lori DeFurio and Joel Geraci: “Collecting Data in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional”
• PowerPanel of PDF Experts: Will answer questions from participants
There also are several post-conference workshops on related themes that require separate registration.
“I think this new format is going to open up PDF Conference to a much wider audience,” says Young, “and I hope all who attended our hotel events will give this new format a try.”
Registration information and forms for the conference sessions and workshops are available from the PDF Conference website, along with a link to test an Acrobat Connect configuration.
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Wondering if a quirk of Reader 8.0 can be answered here. I’ve made templates with buttons to do a variety of task using Acrobat 7.0 Pro.
Some buttons no longer work when opened in Reader 8.0 - the keystroke equivalents that are performed by the button are the same between the versions - like [Ctrl W] for “Close” and [Shft Ctrl H] for “Scroll”; however, Reader 8.0 simply doesn’t work with these buttons! This is strange and a big problem - I’ve created numerous documents with buttons and/or bookmark links that no longer work with 8.0!!
What to do??
April 11th, 2007 at 9:20 am
> What to do?
Your question doesn’t seem to be a comment on the article, but rather a request for help, in which case you’d be far better off posting it in the Ask an Expert area.