Adobe interview: Heather Winkle, User Experience Manager
Heather Winkle manages the User Experience group at Adobe Systems that recently developed and implemented a streamlined user interface for Adobe Acrobat 8.0. She talked recently with AcrobatUsers.com about the group's primary design goals, the makeover process and the challenges of integrating Macromedia Breeze functionality into Acrobat.
Adobe Acrobat menu structure changes
This illustrated chart summarizes the changes in the menu structure from Adobe Acrobat 7.0.8 to Acrobat 8.
Five new ways to enhance your organization's workflow
Find out how you can save time and reduce costs--without expensive infrastructure investments. In this exclusive members-only article, Carl Young looks at five new ways Acrobat 8 Professional can help you spend less time and money managing your business workflows and more time on what's really important: making a profit.
TIP: Creating and using security policies
Acrobat 8 includes enhancements that simplify the creation and application of security policies, which can include encryption, permission settings and information about who can open the PDFs or change security settings.
Learn how to create policies utilizing password protection, certificate or server-based (Policy Server) security.
Download free Adobe Reader 8
The free Adobe Reader has now been updated — with a new streamlined user interface — and is available for download from Adobe.com. It includes new and improved functionality, including the often-requested capability to directly save user-entered data in PDF forms (when the form has been properly Reader-enabled with Acrobat 8 Professional). Also, Reader now has its own Adobe.com blog!
Blogging Acrobat 8
Recent AUC blog posts include:
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