Acrobat at MAX 2006 Day 1
This is my first Adobe MAX event, and I have to say I am very impressed. The Venetian is a wonderful venue, the food is great and the attendance hit 3,200 this year, a record. It’s good to see lots of old friends here.
The keynotes on the first day were a lot of fun. The kickoff was a Blue Man group show, which was a great way to get energized for a 12-hour day.
While there wasn’t much in the hour and a half of talks that was strictly PDF, a couple of cool things did happen.
1) We saw a demo of a plug-in for Adobe LiveCycle Designer that generated a Flash form and a PDF form at the same time. Very cool.
2) The old Macromedia crowd is slowly warming up to PDF.
Ben Forta, a well known Flash and Dreamweaver evangelist, stood up and said, “I have been drinking lots and lots of PDF Kool-Aid” and indicated he’s learned a lot he didn’t know about PDF.
That PDF stuff doesn’t taste so bad, does it, Ben?
More keynotes tomorrow. I’m betting we hear more about PDF then.
