As you may have noticed, on AcrobatUsers.com, we’ve been expanding the number of Flash-video-based Acrobat tips. For an example, see Lori DeFurio’s “Modifying your PDFs using drag and drop to/from Pages panel,” which includes a link to a video-clip version of the same tip. Some tips exist only as short Flash videos.
Elsewhere on the Web, we’ve been seeing a similar growth in multimedia resources for learning how to more effectively use Acrobat and PDF. If you’re a podcast junkie like me, you may have discovered that there are now at least three podcasts–including the Acrobat Tips & Tricks podcast we launched on AcrobatUsers.com not long ago–that focus specifically on Acrobat. You can subscribe to all of them via iTunes, or download the files separately elsewhere. Check them out …
• The latest is the creation of Tim Huff, Acrobat Business Development Manager for Adobe Systems, who has just unveiled his “Man, I didn’t know Acrobat could do that!” [iTunes] podcast, a spinoff of his website of the same name and theme. So far he’s posted podcasts covering how to create a blank PDF with text and graphics in Acrobat 8, and how to do forms-data collection.
• In September, Steve Adler–previously featured in this blog–expanded his wealth of resources aimed at educational applications of Acrobat with the first of his now-growing “Acrobat Video Podcasts for Educators” [iTunes] series. So far Adler has posted how-to podcasts on modifying PDF bookmarks and actions, on creating and customizing PDF bookmarks, and on how to quickly arrange, reorder and mix pages among PDF documents.
Not coincidentally, Adler is the also author of the “Adobe Acrobat 8 Curriculum Guide” on Adobe’s Education website. In addition to the guide, Adler has posted a collection of related asset files:
Visit Adler’s website for more of his valuable educational resources.
• Last, but not least, it’s worth citing again the original source of Acrobat-related podcasts — the Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast by Terry White of Adobe. There’s a collection of almost 100 podcasts at the site, covering the various software products that make up Adobe’s Creative Suite family. A subset of the podcasts focus on Acrobat, covering the following two dozen topics and features:
- Do a Shared Review with Acrobat 8 Professional
- Print Bookets Directly from Acrobat 8 Professional
- Create PDFs from your Scanner with Acrobat 8 Professional
- Cropping PDFs in Acrobat 8 Professional
- Graphically sign your PDFs with your picture
- Custimize Acrobat 8 and set the most important preferences
- Hide senstive information in your PDFs with Redaction
- Acrobat 8 Combine and Package Features
- Acrobat Connect
- Acrobat 8 Preflighting and Fixups
- Acrobat 8 New Forms Workflow
- Introducing Acrobat 8 Professional-CS2 2.3
- Digitally sign your PDFs
- PDF Security in Acrobat 7 Professional
- Explore the presentation features of Acrobat
- Flatten Transparency in your PDFs using Acrobat
- OCR your scans in Acrobat 7 Professional
- Use Web Capture to make web pages portable
- Create Article Threads in your PDF
- Use the Acrobat Typewriter Tool on Forms
- Make your PDFs smaller
- Making One PDF out of Several PDFs
- Send PDFs for Review with Acrobat 7
- Create fillable forms with Acrobat 7 Professional
Also worth monitoring for more general tech-related tidbits is Terry White’s Tech Blog.
In a partnership with the Yahoo! Publisher Network, Adobe Systems is looking for publishers of PDF-based content to help trial a new service that facilitates the inclusion of contextually relevant ads in their publications. Aptly named “Ads for Adobe PDF,” the service automatically matches advertisers with topical content, and provides a means to track ad performance.
