New online Acrobat resources available
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007A couple noteworthy launches that should be of interest to dedicated users of Adobe Acrobat and PDF:
• ConnectUsers.com
Adobe Systems has launched ConnectUsers.com, a community-oriented site — similar in many ways to AcrobatUsers.com — where Connect Professional customers can participate in discussion forums, peruse tutorials, share best practices and tips, and sign-up for local user-group chapters. Registered members of the AcrobatUsers.com community can use the same Username and Password to log in to ConnectUsers.com.
• Inside PDF blog
Jim King, PDF Platform Architect with Adobe Systems, has unveiled his new weblog titled “Inside PDF.”
King writes that “as PDF Architect and a Senior Principal Scientist, I will cover the recent activities for putting control of PDF into the public hands, present tutorial views on PDF and similar stuff.”
He gets things underway by sharing his perspective on the standards-approval process and its ramifications — particularly Adobe’s announcement earlier this year that it is in the process of moving PDF, an existing de facto standard, to be under public (ISO) standards control. He also notes Microsoft’s recently nixed effort to have its Office Open XML file formats approved as an ISO/IEC Fast Track standard, and briefly explains the two company’s differing approval strategies.
