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eSeminar on demand – October: Basic Fillable Forms and Form Tracking
The October eSeminar on Basic Fillable Forms and Form Tracking, presented by noted author Ted Padova, was recorded and is now available for on-demand viewing.
Download the slides as a PDF Portfolio. [PDF: 8.6MB].

Acrobat 9 spawns wealth of educational resources
The release of Acrobat 9 spawned a variety of new and updated educational resources — books, DVDs, websites and so on – to help users harness the new tools and features. We offer an overview of the currently available crop.

Forms, forms, forms
Donna Baker explains that while the forms tools in Acrobat 9 may look the same as in previous versions, the way you interact with them is much more intuitive. In this illustrated forms tutorial, she discusses how to work through the new Form Edit mode to design, build and distribute Acroforms.

Using Trusted Functions
Thom Parker writes that since the time that scripting was added to Acrobat and PDF, security has been an issue of concern. With the growing ubiquity of the Internet, things are getting worse all the time. Spam is all-pervasive and it seems that every day, hackers come up with new ways to invade our computers. Fortunately, Acrobat JavaScript has always been a sand-boxed environment where local file system access is heavily controlled, and certain types of potentially dangerous operations are restricted to a reasonably safe context.

December eSeminar: Digital Signatures
It’s not too soon to register for next month’s free eSeminar on Wednesday, December 17, on Digital Signatures. It will cover how to use digital signatures to authenticate documents, manage their status, and help protect against unauthorized modification — including a look at self-signed Digital IDs in Acrobat.

Video tutorial
Ensuring your PDF conforms to a PDF standard
by Ali Hanyaloglu

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Optimizing your PDF document
by Ian Campbell

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New industry-oriented forums launched
We’re introducing several new industry-specific forums that will be moderated by experts in that particular market or profession, beginning with these topical discussion areas:

Architecture, Engineering and Construction
moderated by Randall Newton

Higher Education
moderated by Steve Adler and Bob Leneway

Education K-12
moderated by Steve Adler and Bob Leneway

Legal
moderated by David Masters and Ernest Svenson

AUC Bloggers: Recent posts

Kurt Foss:
Learn at the virtual feet of the PDF scripting master

Duff Johnson:
Adobe posts new accessibility resources

Duff Johnson:
Scripting ain’t just for Hollywood

Thom Parker:
MAX Time Again

Thom Parker:
Old Friend, new Blog

Thom Parker:
Post Conference, back from Minneapolis

Thom Parker:
Back On Line (again)

Leonard Rosenthol:
Adobe Posts free ISO 32000

Heard in the AUC Forums

• Saving a PDF with the Current Date Time as filename
• Scanning to PDF and McAfee On-Access scanner
• If/then statements for a JavaScript in PDF form
• Manipulate values in a drop-down list from a combo box in Acroform
• Viewing SWF in an Interactive PDF
• Setting focus to Flash element when PDF opens
• Setting the location of textboxes when pasting them
• Remove warning prompt for calculations override
• Managing Shared Review locations
• How do I share Adobe Acrobat PDF files with a URL?
• How do you specify conditional text values using JavaScript?
• Acrobat 9 PDF Portfolio - setting size of SWF content area
• 8.1.2: PDFMaker disables Word macros after making a PDF
• Adobe Distiller print icon option for Acrobat 9 Std edition
• Form to fill and paste on top of PDF files
• Generate date and a unique number
• Collecting responses to two e-mail addresses
• Reading form data out of a saved PDF file
• How to open a PDF and automatically input the password
• Acrobat Distiller: error message 183
• Convert scanned PDF doc to editable Word

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Upcoming events

MAX 2008 North America*
San Francisco, CA
November 16-19, 2008

*Visit the Acrobat User Community booth #416.

Adobe MAX 2008 - Europe
Milan, Italy
December 1-4, 2008

AUC Upcoming User Group Meetings

The Netherlands
Wed, Nov 26, 2008, 1:00 PM

AUC Upcoming eSeminars

Advanced Forms and LiveCycle Designer
Wed, Nov 12, 2008, 10:00 AM

Digital Signatures
Wed, Dec 17, 2008, 10:00 AM

Scanning & OCR
Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 10:00 AM

Review and Commenting
Wed, Feb 18, 2009, 10:00 AM

Archiving and PDF Standards
Wed, Mar 18, 2009, 10:00 AM

Prepress and Printing
Wed, Apr 15, 2009, 10:00 AM

Acrobat Presenter
Wed, May 20, 2009, 10:00 AM