Carl Young’s AcroViews

Adobe President and COO Shantanu Narayen points out that Acrobat is seeing most of its growth coming from new users, not upgrades. If you are one of those, welcome to the Acrobat User Community.

PDF can be a simple representation of the printed page, or it can be a very dynamic, changing form. Creating forms is one of the most challenging tasks in the PDF world. If you are new to forms (and I see quite a few postings to the forums that suggest that), then I have some suggestions for you.

Before you draw your first form field, take a look at the articles on form design here at AUC.

For example:

Getting Started with Acrobat Forms

Adobe LiveCycle Designer or Acrobat Forms?

Nuts and Bolts of PDF Forms

Extended Form Features

Barcoded Forms in Adobe Acrobat

Digital Signatures and Adobe PDF

FormRouter’s Reader Extensions service: Extra features for fair price

If you are using the free LiveCycle Designer that ships with Acrobat Pro to create forms, I suggest you post technical questions to the Livecycle Designer forum. We do our best to answer questions here, but Adobe engineers answer questions over there.
We all started out as new PDF form designers, so don’t be afraid to speak up and ask a question. But because many of us have been there before, you will find many of your questions already answered in the articles.

Ted Padova recently pointed out that we are receiving quite a few questions on Ask an Expert about Acrobat 8 support for Microsoft Vista and Office 2007. Here is what we know from Adobe.

If I read the statement and do my math correctly, that means we should see an update from Adobe by the end of summer. I am sure you will hear more directly from Adobe and via the auto update feature in Acrobat.