Member Profile
Rocío López-Bretzlaff
About me
I am a Mexican-Canadian living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
I love ethnic cuisine, good friends, and interesting interactions.
I truly enjoy photography, computers and learning, as it keeps my mind young and occupied!
I am also a graphic/web designer, a Photoshop addict and an Acrobat believer, advocate and promoter. I spend countless hours of my 'free time' working on any of these areas in any given day, so I guess that also makes me a computeraholic!
(It is a good thing that my kids are old enough and independent; and that my husband is just as addicted to his computer as I am to mine ;)
How I Use Acrobat
While a became a Photoshop addict just few years ago, I have been an Acrobat convert since the first years of PDF's. Then, around 1998, while working for a publishing house I had the opportunity to lead the implementation of a new work flow that saw us moving from sending documents to print from the source documents, with all the inherent problems of fonts, platforms and applications, to preparing PDF's to be sent for high quality print for a large curriculum and books.
Believe me, at the time the work flow and the preparation was done literally by trial and error, as little was available in the way of tutorials, experts or written guides on Acrobat.
Sending to print a document as a 'separation' with duo-tone images included proved to be a challenging task then. However, by the time I was finished with the testing and researching and successfully worked a work flow for PDF for print for our company saved thousands of dollars in blueline corrections. I was sold on Acrobat!... We were sold on Acrobat!!
Since then, I have used Acrobat for producing all types of documents for sharing, archiving and printing. At this time, however my objective is to promote the use of Acrobat for Collaboration. I am promoting the use of 'Reviewing and Commenting in PDF' as a way to enhance collaboration and improve productivity for a government office for which I am presently working.
It is a learning curve for many, including me, and for that reason I have become a member of this Acrobat User Community hoping to learn from the experts and from the 'learning to be experts' like myself. :-)
My Skills
• Photography and image manipulation
• HTML & CCS
• Photoshop CS
• Illustrator CS
• Dreamweaver MX
• Flash MX 2004
• Acrobat Pro – for web and print
