Archive for January, 2008

Little-known, but practice-tested Acrobat 8 tips for lawyers

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Roy Greenberg, who has a transactional real estate practice in New York, writes in an article we’ve just re-published on AcrobatUsers.com that he is continuously surprised “by the inability of both lawyers and clients to use the most basic functions of Acrobat and the free reader.”

Accordingly, he offers his 10 best Adobe Acrobat tips, with “an emphasis on communicating with people who are resistant to learning” about PDF. His complete article, originally written for and published by TechnoLawyer.com, is available for download, but here are the tips he describes in greater detail:

1. Use the snapshot tool instead of an email attachment

2. Use thumbnail images for document navigation

3. Use bookmarks to flag pages requiring signatures

4. Quickest way to replace selected pages in a PDF

5. Place comments directly on a document

6. Ensure that your comments are printed

7. Use the organizer for documents that you regularly email

8. Send web pages instead of URLs

9. Want to highlight portions of a graphic image?

10. Convert online pdf documents to forms

In his introduction, Greenberg writes:

“You’re probably familiar with the most basic function of Adobe Acrobat Professional 8: converting any document to a portable document format (PDF) that can be read by any recipient who downloads the free Adobe Reader. If you view Acrobat Professional as an integrated collection of tools for online communication, however, you can begin to appreciate its potential for communicating with your clients.”

Download the four-page article titled “Top 10 little-known tips for lawyers who use Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional.”

Two other great Acrobat resources aimed primarily at the legal community–but with useful advice for users in other fields and business–are the Acrobat for Legal Professionals blog by Rick Borstein of Adobe Systems, and the PDF for Lawyers blog by Ernest Svenson.

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