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Welcome to the Adobe Acrobat Video Podcasts with tips and tutorials by Terry White.
Web Conference for FREE with Adobe BRIO
In this episode we take a look at the NEW Adobe BRIO service which is the code name for a new FREE version of Acrobat Connect. BRIO allows you to host your own web conferences with up to 3 people including screen sharing, chat, VoIP and webcam.
Acrobat
Duration 00:08:11
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT
Get information out of PDF files
In this episode we'll take a look at how to get text and images out of PDFs. We're always talking about ways to create PDFs, well now it's time to go the other way. Let's extract some images and text to be repourposed in other apps.
Acrobat
Duration 00:10:28
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:01:00 GMT
Do a Shared Review with Acrobat 8 Professional
In this episode we learn how to use one of Acrobat 8 Professional's new features which is called Shared Review. We learn how to do a shared cross platform PDF review and even host it on a WebDAV based .Mac iDisk.
Acrobat
Duration 00:07:38
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:01:00 GMT
Print Bookets Directly from Acrobat 8 Professional
Now you can turn those PDFs from Reader Spreads into Printer Spreads on the fly directly from Acrobat 8 Professional's print dialog box. This used to be a task that would have to be performed before making a PDF. Now Acrobat makes it a piece of cake.
Acrobat
Duration 00:04:18
Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT
Create PDFs from your Scanner with Acrobat 8 Professional
We've created PDFs from various Adobe products and we've even created them from non-Adobe products. In this episode we'll not only see how to create a PDF from a flatbed scanner, but we'll also make the text searchable using Acrobat's OCR capabilities while maintaining 100% readability and accuracy.
Acrobat
Duration 00:10:05
Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:01:00 GMT
Cropping PDFs in Acrobat 8 Professional
When I think cropping I think Photoshop, however there have been plenty of times where I needed to crop a PDF. In this episode we'll take a look at the various ways to do it and some reasons why you would. The nice thing about cropping a PDF is that the information that is cropped off is never actually deleted.
Acrobat
Duration 00:04:33
Thu, 8 Mar 2007 05:01:00 GMT
Graphically sign your PDFs with your picture
We've seen how to digitally sign PDFs in Acrobat before. However, in this episode not only do I show you how to do it in Acrobat 8 Professional, but I also show you how to take your signature to the next level with your own picture. There will be no doubt that the signature is from you.
Acrobat
Duration 00:10:45
Thu, 8 Feb 2007 05:01:00 GMT
Custimize Acrobat 8 and set the most important preferences
In this episode I will walk you through setting the most important preferences in Acrobat 8. While Acrobat has some pretty good default settings, you will definitely want to get in there and make the application more to your liking. I will also walk you through how to customize the UI by adding the tools you need and taking away the tools that you don't.
Acrobat
Duration 00:08:04
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:01:00 GMT
Hide senstive information in your PDFs with Redaction
Acrobat 8 Professional introduces a pretty neat feature that will make you feel like you work for a top secret government agency (and maybe you already do). With the Redaction features you will be able to distribute PDFs as you always do, but now you'll be able to hide sensitive information such as birth dates and social security numbers. In this episode you learn how to put this feature to good.
Acrobat
Duration 00:06:06
Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:01:00 GMT
Acrobat 8 Combine and Package Features
Acrobat has had the ability to combine PDFs into one for some time now. In this episode you will see how to not only Combine PDF pages from various documents into one PDF, but you will also see how to Package multiple PDFs into a new kind of Package document PDF.
Acrobat
Duration 00:06:41
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 05:01:00 GMT
When Adobe acquired Macromedia we got a great technology called Breeze. Breeze has been rebranded Acrobat Connect and Acrobat Connect Professional. Acrobat Connect allows you to host online meetings with up to 15 people at a time 24 hours a day. The beauty of Acrobat Connect is that it's based on Flash technology which means that you can be assured that 98% of your meeting participants will be able to participate in your meetings without having to download anything first. Although it's called Acrobat Connect you can use this technology to share your screen/desktop and show any kind of application including PowerPoint presentations. Acrobat Connect is a hosted service and therefore there is a monthly fee. You can signup for a free trial account to try it out.
Acrobat
Duration 00:09:32
Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:01:00 GMT
Acrobat 8 Preflighting and Fixups
Preflighting PDFs in Acrobat Professionals keeps getting better with each version. In previous versions of Acrobat you could run PDFs against the Preflight tool and it would either pass or fail. If it failed you would then have to manually resolve the problems in the PDF or by generating a new PDF. In Acrobat 8 Professional you can now apply "Fix-ups" to correct the most common problems encountered in working with PDFs for print.
Acrobat
Duration 00:05:10
Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:01:00 GMT
Adobe Acrobat 8 Introduces a brand new forms workflow that automatically detects form fields in your PDFs automatically. You can also send your PDFs to users of the free Adobe Reader and they will be able to not only fill out your form, but also submit the data back to you so that you can compile it in a spreadsheet or database. In this episode I will show you just how easy it is.
Acrobat
Duration 00:13:41
Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:01:00 GMT
Introducing Acrobat 8 Professional-CS2 2.3
In this BONUS Episode we will take a look at the NEW Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional! Adobe also released a corresponding update to the Adobe Creative Suite Premium 2.3. This new version of Acrobat allows more collaboration and document sharing. This also includes the debut of Acrobat Connect!
Acrobat
Duration 00:23:49
Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:00:00 GMT
Now that you know how easy it is to make PDFs from your Creative Suite products, we'll learn how to set them up so that they can be digitally signed. In this episode you'll see how to set up a PDF to accept a digital signature. You all also see how to create your own digital signature for signing and a strategy to work with your clients so that you know who is signing those documents?
Acrobat
Duration 00:12:35
Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:01:00 GMT
PDF Security in Acrobat 7 Professional
We've taken a look at creating PDFs in several of these episodes. Now we'll learn how to secure them so that we can safely send out PDFs to clients for review and be assured that they can only access the content the way we want them to. Turn off things like printing and content extraction. Password protect your PDFs so that they can't even be opened without a password.
Acrobat
Duration 00:08:20
Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:01:00 GMT
Explore the presentation features of Acrobat
You can select images in the Bridge and send them to Photoshop to make a presentation slideshow. In this episode you'll see how to add some polish to those presentations as well as taking advantage of Acrobat specific transitions and settings. You'll also see how to tweak the settings to do automatic or manual slideshows.
Acrobat
Duration 00:09:55
Thu, 3 Aug 2006 04:01:00 GMT
Flatten Transparency in your PDFs using Acrobat
The introduction of transparency has been quite controversial in print production over the past few years. The fact is that for most transparency in Adobe files works just fine. However, those of us out there with older RIPs may have issues printing transparency. In this episode you'll see how to flatten transparency in your PDF files before you ever hit the Print command.
Acrobat
Duration 00:07:01
Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:01:00 GMT
OCR your scans in Acrobat 7 Professional
OCR is usually a bad word to most computer users. However, in Acrobat it's the next best thing to sliced bread. Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional not only employs Optical Character Recognition for your text, but it does Page Recognition to preserve the geometry of your pages. Everything stays in place and your paper documents become searchable, reusable text!
Acrobat
Duration 00:08:25
Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:01:00 GMT
Use Web Capture to make web pages portable
The world wide web is great. The problem is you can't take it with you. Or can you? In this episode you'll learn how to use Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional to web capture a web page or entire website. You'll learn how to customize a capture of specific pages. You'll also see the benefits of using Acrobat's web capture feature as opposed to simply printing to PDF.
Acrobat
Duration 00:07:42
Thu, 1 Jun 2006 04:01:00 GMT
Create Article Threads in your PDF
PDFs are everywhere online. So the chances of you reading a PDF in your browsers are pretty high. Therefore, you should make your PDFs as easy to navigate as possible. If your text is in multiple columns and goes from page to page you should be using Article Threads. In this episode you will see how to add article threads to an existing PDFs.
Acrobat
Duration 00:08:08
Thu, 11 May 2006 04:10:00 GMT
Use the Acrobat Typewriter Tool on Forms
OK, I love PDF forms and being able to fill them out right in Acrobat. However, unfortunately not everyone goes through the effort of making form fields on their forms. So rather than print the form out and fill it out by hand, use the Acrobat Typewriter Tool to click right onto the form and type right onto it without the need for form fields. In this Episode youâll learn how.
Acrobat
Duration 00:04:45
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:52:00 GMT
PDFs are the industry standard for document sharing. However, sometimes PDFs generated by non-Adobe apps can tend to be larger than they need to be. In this episode youâll learn how to make your PDF files smaller even if they werenât generated by an Adobe product.
Acrobat
Duration 00:05:09
Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:03:00 GMT
Making One PDF out of Several PDFs
I get this question all the time. How can I take several PDFs, images and text files and make one PDF? I donât want to send my client a bunch of small little attachments. I want to send them one PDF of the whole proposal. Well the good news is that using Acrobat 7 Professionalâs new âOrganizerâ itâs really easy to do. In this episode Iâll walk you through the entire process including a one click button to attach the PDF to your email.
Acrobat
Duration 00:08:04
Thu, 9 Mar 2006 13:20:00 GMT
Send PDFs for Review with Acrobat
Acrobat 7 Professional includes a new capability that enables you to send PDFs to your clients for Review and Markup. That doesnât sound new right? However, in this version you can enable your PDFs so that even someone with just the FREE Adobe Reader can participate in the review cycle and have the markup tools without requiring that they go buy Acrobat.
Acrobat
Duration 00:06:29
Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:28:00 GMT
Create fillable forms with Acrobat 7 Professional
In this Podcast youâll see how to make a form using Adobe InDesign CS2 and then export it to Adobe PDF. After your form is in PDF you can actually create fields in Acrobat 7 Professional on top of your PDF enabling users to actually fill out the form right inside their web browsers with the Free Adobe Reader. If you have the Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium, you have everything you need to create your own fillable forms.
Acrobat
Duration 00:14:51
Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:33:00 GMT
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