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Thursday, July 3, 2008
ArcGIS Map export patch for Acrobat 9
Acrobat 9 supports a new version of PDF that allows for encoding of map coordinate system and georeference information inside the PDF file. This patch enables ArcGIS Desktop, Engine, and Server applications to export georeferenced PDF files.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
25+ video tutorials on Acrobat 9 now available
How to videos on the features in Acrobat 9 - from forms to adding Flash

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 to provide native support for PDF
Microsoft announced that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2), to be released in the first half of 2009, will include native, "first-class citizen" support for Adobe's PDF and the XML Paper Specification (XPS), as well as Microsoft's own OpenXML.

Saturday, May 17, 2008
Biomet uses Acrobat 3D for faster approval of custom artificial hip and shoulder implants
Biomet uses Acrobat 3D to enable doctors to speed up the approval process for custom artificial joint replacement of the hip, knee, shoulder, elbow.

Monday, May 5, 2008
Adobe Announces New Acrobat Connect Pro
Adobe Systems has announced a new version of Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro, the company's comprehensive Web conferencing and eLearning solution. New functionality will enrich online communication and collaboration, enabling organizations and schools to offer more engaging rapid training, interactive virtual classes and dynamic online meetings.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Cadalyst reviews features for converting AutoCAD DWG drawings to PDF
Overview of the features in Acrobat 8 useful to AutoCAD users for working with DWG drawing files and converting them to PDF, including batch conversion, speed, and round-trip redlining

Monday, March 31, 2008
Adobe Cozies Up To Open Source World
Adobe Systems is joining the Linux Foundation and has released an early test version of its Adobe Integrated Runtime (Air) for rich Internet applications.

Monday, March 31, 2008
How to Optimize Your PDFs to Increase SearchTraffic in 10 Steps
Here are 10 steps to optimize your PDFs so you can drive more traffic to your website.

Monday, March 31, 2008
Adobe Q1 boosted by record Acrobat sales
Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive at Adobe said: "Driving our strong performance in Q1 was continued demand for our Creative Suite 3 family of products, as well as another record quarter for our Acrobat product family."

Monday, March 31, 2008
Reference card for accessible-PDF creation from MS Word
There are a lot of PDF files generated though Adobe's PDFMaker plug-in for Microsoft Word. This one-page document helps guide users who may not know much about accessibile PDF creation so that they can more easily address accessibility in their documents.

Articles

Acrobat PDF Central Conference goes north, showcases new features
A location change to Minneapolis for the third Adobe Acrobat & PDF Central Conference attracted a primarily new audience that learned from a range of expert speakers all about the new features of Acrobat 9 -- and of previous versions, too.
by Kurt Foss, Editor, AcrobatUsers.com

Survey says: More work, increased sharing and collaboration, common challenges

By Kurt Foss, Editor, AcrobatUsers.com

Publishers offer quality content through the 'Ads for Adobe PDF' service
The "Ads for Adobe PDF" service continues in limited beta, but already includes a wide range of publishers who are helping Adobe fine-tune the technology and procedures.
By Kurt Foss, Editor, AcrobatUsers.com

Acrobat 8 named ‘Product of the Year’ by Law Technology News readers
Readers of Law Technology News recently honored Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional as the legal industry's Product of the Year.
By Kurt Foss, Editor, AcrobatUsers.com

Recapping 2007: 'Best of' AcrobatUsers.com statistics
Membership in the Acrobat User Community tripled last year. Here's a brief review of some of the 2007 site highlights, a sort of 'Best of' retrospective from the articles, tutorials, blogs and discussion areas.
By Kurt Foss, Editor, AcrobatUsers.com

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