Carl Young’s AcroViews

Thomas Phinney, Product Manager, Fonts & Global Typography for Adobe, will speak on font embedding and PDF/Acrobat at 1 p.m. April 10. This is technically a Phoenix Chapter event, but I would like to invite all members to participate. AUC is changing things to allow more use of connect, so stay tuned for more details.

Welcome aboard. Before we set sail into the new world of AcrobatUsers.com blogs, let me introduce myself.

My name is Carl Young and I am an Adobe Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer trainer and consultant based in Phoenix. I am a certified technical trainer, certified expert in Acrobat versions 4-7 and Adobe FrameMaker 7. I also produce Carl Young’s PDF Conference and am the author of Carl Young’s Guide to Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional, published by McGraw Hill Osborne. (By the way, everything in the book still applies to Acrobat 7 Professional.)

I am primarily a Windows user, but I still have Mac. My wife, Jo Lou, runs the Phoenix Acrobat User Group. Although I live in Phoenix, a big chunk of my business is in Washington, D.C., where I train and consult with some of Adobe’s largest customers.

I also will be writing articles on PDF forms for AcrobatUsers.com. Keep an eye out for those in the next couple of months.

In this blog, we will discuss PDF forms (LiveCycle and Acrobat), general Acrobat resources, and some tips.

Here are the house rules: Although my E-mail is carl@pdftrain.com, please post your questions to the blog. In addition, please check the Acrobat Help file and Acrobat Support before posting. Take all installation issues to Acrobat Support. We won’t discuss those here.

Above all, please remember that all blogs on this site are run by volunteers who earn their livelihoods elsewhere. Do keep in mind we are not Adobe technical support.

I look forward to hearing from you.