While Acrobat Pro lets you make forms, Adobe has another program called LifeCycle Designer which has the power both to make you very happy or very unhappy. Learn why you’d want to use Designer, why you might want to avoid it, and if you can’t avoid it, how best to make it work for you.

Enter the 21st century! Stop scribbling on paper and move to an electronic PDF review cycle with your colleagues and clients. Acrobat’s commenting and review features are powerful and flexible, no matter what kinds of documents you’re working with.

Acrobat lets you make a wide variety of forms that can be filled out on screen by any reader, but creating these forms isn’t always as straightforward as you might hope. Learn how to build forms right the first time.

• Building forms the automatic way
• Reusing forms controls
• Creating checkboxes, radio buttons, pop-up menus, and more

If you need to restrict who sees a document, what they do and don’t see, or what they can do with that document, you need this session. Acrobat offers very powerful methods of security and rights management, but only if you know how to use them correctly.

This session builds on the portrait of the print industry presented in Dov Isaacs’ Monday session. In this tutorial, you’ll be immersed into the world of PDF workflow for print publishing using the Adobe Creative Suite applications. Dov will include important, detailed background information which will help you in your daily production, including:

• General file format issues
• PDF Print Publishing Workflows
• Principles for Reliable PDF workflow
• PDF File Creation Methods
• Technical Realities (fonts, color, transparency, images, etc.)
• The Adobe PDF Print Engine

Just because most of your audience is using the free Acrobat Reader, doesn’t mean you should feel limited! Reader can do far more than you think… if you know how to create your PDFs correctly.

Section 508 requires that all electronic documents from federal agencies be accessible to people with disabilities. Many companies are now following this program, too. But making PDF files that adhere to Section 508 standards is not straightforward. This session provides insights and tips you’d better know.  

What if you could insert 3D objects into your PDF files and let your customers view, rotate, and comment with just the free Reader application? You can if you have Acrobat 3D! This amazing technology even lets you import models from popular CAD programs. It’s a must for anyone in an industry that builds “real world” objects.

Ensuring consistent communication from a designer to production manager to the printer to the bindery can be a huge challenge. Stop sending dozens of emails to each other and start using JDF-the Job Definition Format-a non-proprietary system for describing the intent of a document.

Once you know the basics of building interactive documents, you can expand your abilities to create ebooks, onscreen magazines, and cool presentations. Come see some great examples of interactive documents, and find out how they were constructed.