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September 2009
PDF in Snow Leopard's Preview? Maybe Not.
Friday, September 4, 2009
A quick look at PDF handling in Snow Leopard's new Preview reveals significant problems.
August 2009
Understanding Acrobat's Optimizer
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Optimizer is a smart last step before securing and deploying PDF files.
Make Your PDFs Work Well with Google
Friday, August 14, 2009
PDFs are an often-ignored source of SEO (Search Engine Optimization.
The PDF Prescription for Health Care Cost Control
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
We don't have to stick with paper and its limitations, but we DO have to deal with the grinding gears between the various systems in use.
July 2009
PDF Central Conference 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
It was at last year's PDF Central Conference that we announced the creation of Appligent Document Solutions, so I'm especially happy to be returning for this year's Conference in Minneapolis., September 22-24, 2009.
PDF Software Reviews
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Appligent Document Solutions CEO Duff Johnson's collected PDF software reviews.
June 2009
How Reader Extensions Should be Sold
Saturday, June 20, 2009
To gain the maximum value from Extensions, Adobe should rescale the intended takeup point to accommodate departments and small businesses.
May 2009
PDF/UA now ISO/AWI 14289
Thursday, May 28, 2009
The first formal step in the ISO process which ends (we hope) in an ISO Standard for accessible PDF.
PDF is Green Tech for Your Office
Monday, May 18, 2009
One of the greenest office technologies ever invented is already on your computer; the lowly PDF file.
December 2008
Toward a Standard for Accessible PDF
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
AIIM's PDF/UA Committee will submit their draft standard to ANSI to become an ISO standard.
Again with Google!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Google Polishes Chrome
Friday, December 12, 2008
New Perspective on Servers
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Yet Another Reader Extensions Gripe
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Is Reader Really a Dog?
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Saving PDF Forms in Reader
Thursday, December 4, 2008
November 2008
AcroTeX PDF Blog Rumbles to Life
Monday, November 24, 2008
Working with FDF: The FDF Toolkit
Monday, November 24, 2008
Let's Talk About FDF
Friday, November 21, 2008
Google WILL Index Your Scanned PDFs!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
October 2008
Adobe Posts New Accessibility Resources
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Scripting Ain't Just for Hollywood
Sunday, October 12, 2008
September 2008
PDF Central Conference Presentations
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Google's Chrome: Initial Reflections
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
August 2008
PDF Central Conference Coming In September
Sunday, August 17, 2008
The Content that Endures: What to Know About PDF/A
Thursday, August 14, 2008
The Content that Endures
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Why I Love Adobe's New ClearScan
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Why Reader Remains the Standard for PDF Viewing
Thursday, August 7, 2008
September 2007
Understanding Acrobat's Optimizer
Friday, September 7, 2007
July 2007
The First PDF Reference Committee Meeting
Thursday, July 5, 2007
May 2007
Non-English PDF Resources Now a Page
Monday, May 28, 2007
Resources In Languages Other Than English
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
About Time!
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
AGI's Acrobat PDF Conference 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Lose the Buttons: An Acrobat 8 Tip
Sunday, May 13, 2007
April 2007
Developing Accessible PDF: An Introduction
Sunday, April 22, 2007
PDF/Universal Accessibility Update
Saturday, April 21, 2007
March 2007
Converting PDF to Word: Understanding the Problem
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Adobe Acrobat PDF Conference, May 9-10, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Are We Connecting?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
February 2007
PDF Goes to ISO: The Road Ahead
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
PDF Bookmarking Software: A Comparison
Saturday, February 24, 2007
REVIEW: PDF Bookmarks: Surveying the Options
Thursday, February 22, 2007
PDF Goes to ISO: Some Background
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Using PDF for Help Files
Thursday, February 8, 2007
New Article: PDF in Government
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
PDF in Government
Friday, February 2, 2007
January 2007
Acrobat 8's Help: A Review
Friday, January 12, 2007
Last Week's "Reader/XSS Scare" Kerfuffle
Sunday, January 7, 2007
December 2006
Acrobat 8: The MacAddict Interview
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Acrobat 8 represents a serious effort on Adobe's part to awaken end-users to PDF's higher uses.
Blind Spots: PDF and Section 508 Compliance
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Blind and other disabled individuals can not only read PDF files, but Word files, web pages and other electronic content using "assistive" software or hardware, depending on their disability.
Adobe Document Center: Report from the Field
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Putting Adobe Document Center to the test with a real document distributed to a reasonably savvy group of people.
Adobe Document Center: Security You Can Really Use
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Simply put, Adobe's new Document Center allows you to secure PDF (and now .doc and .xls!) files in meaningful and really useful ways.
Acrobat 8 JavaScript Reference Now Available
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
New essential reading from Adobe.
Now Cometh the PDF Reference, 1.7
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Available for free download.
November 2006
PDF Usability: Debate and Reality
Monday, November 20, 2006
A debate rages about whether and how one should take advantage of viewing PDF files online via the Adobe Reader plug-in to a Web browser.
Cut It Out, or Copy Without? Redacting with Acrobat 8 Professional vs. Redax
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Acrobat 8's redaction tool has been generally well received, although a few discriminating reviewers have also noted a key concern with the method Adobe chose for redaction.
Acrobat 8 Meets the Extended Rights Manifesto
Friday, November 10, 2006
Acrobat 8 Professional now offers three ways to "bless" a PDF with Extended Rights.
Help Joe Clark Start The Open and Closed Project
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Joe Clark's new Open and Closed Project plans to write a set of standards for the four fields of accessible media - captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing.
Acrobat 8 and the Extended Rights Manifesto
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
One of the new Extended Rights, Reader Save allows an Acrobat Pro user to "bless" a PDF such that form-fields may be completed and then saved by any user with the free Adobe Reader.
October 2006
Acrobat Is a RAD Tool!
Monday, October 30, 2006
When Adobe began expanding PDF beyond a portable file with reliable printed output, they added navigational, interactive and other features intended to improve the end-user experience.
September 2006
A PDF Perspective on Google Book Search
Friday, September 29, 2006
For many works in the public-domain, Google makes complete cover-to-cover scans of the book available to users as images in an online viewer and also... you guessed it, as a PDF.
Reader Can Save: A New Day Dawns for PDF
Sunday, September 17, 2006
A PDF form enabled for Reader Save in Acrobat 8 Professional may now be completed and SAVED using the free Adobe Reader!
Four More Articles: Digital Signatures, Maximizing PDF and More
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Four (in some cases controversial) articles from acrobatusers.com.
August 2006
Google Offers Out-of-Print Books In PDF
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
And they're free!
Acrobat Bookmarks: Why and How
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Bookmarks provide an intuitive navigational and functional system that is highly desirable for any file and absolutely vital for longer documents.
Extended Rights Manifesto Gets 10th Article
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Acrobat Professional should be able to bestow form rights on a PDF without limitation or reservation.
A Valuable Resource for Accessible PDF
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Guide to Creating Accessible PDFs using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional.
A Milestone: Acrobat Help Now Online
Monday, August 7, 2006
Now, if we could only have appropriate page breaks and page numbers.
Acrobat Gems: The Measuring Tool
Thursday, August 3, 2006
Quickly and easily measure any map, drawing or diagram, no matter the format.
Maximizing PDF Usability
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Optimizing PDF with usability features that will satisfy the vast majority of users is much easier than optimizing HTML.
July 2006
Manifesto Now a Page...
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Share your your comments and suggestions.
Acrobat Gems: Create a Blank PDF Page
Monday, July 24, 2006
Great, much-needed tip with no workarounds required!
Reader Extensions: A Manifesto
Monday, July 24, 2006
Views on the "ideal" Reader Extensions business model.
Digital Signatures with PDF and Acrobat
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Many compatible technologies hold real promise to assist in the acceptance and integration of digital signatures.
Standards for PDF
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Leonard Rosenthal just wrote a summary of the PDF Standards currently under development.
PDF Needs YOU for PDF/UA!
Monday, July 10, 2006
We need more involvement from both the PDF and the assistive-technology developer communities!
June 2006
What Are “PDF Tags” and Why Should I Care?
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
A basic overview of what Section 508 accessibility means in the world of PDF, and why that might matter to you.
Easy Spell-Check for Bloggers
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
It's easy to spell-check when typing directly into your Blog (or any other HTML form)... all you need is the Google Toolbar.
REVIEW: A Survey of Redaction Tools
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Don't try to redact with Acrobat 7.0, but there are some really great ways to go about redaction in PDF.
Welcome to the PDF Perspective
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
In this Blog, I'm going to try to offer tips, comments, suggestions, complaints, praise, interesting links, and some of the perspective I've gained watching this industry grow.
Making your PDFs work well with Google
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
February 2006
What Are "PDF Tags" and Why Should I Care?
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
If accessibility is important (or mandatory), or if you want your files to work well on mobile devices, then you need to learn to tag your PDFs.
July 2005
Legacy Content Conversion: Generating Citations, Revenue and Goodwill from Your Publication History
Monday, July 25, 2005
Tips on articulating needs, technology choices and business models to serve as a reference point for associations, journals and libraries considering digitizing published content.
April 2005
REVIEW: ARTS PDF's Aerialist Pro
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Aerialist Professional has added depth to Aerialist's essentials, a variety of prepress (actually multi-function) tools and powerful batch automation.
February 2005
REVIEW: First Impressions of Acrobat 7.0
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
"Commenting", accessibility and security highlighted in Adobe Acrobat 7.0.
Planet PDF Launches New PDF Accessibility and Section 508 Forum
Thursday, February 10, 2005
In Acrobat 7.0, Adobe has added new tools to make PDFs more accessible to users with disabilities and improve compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
April 2004
What Is Tagged PDF?
Thursday, April 22, 2004
In PDF files, structure, reading order, figures, lists, tables, and so on, is expressed via "tags".
PDF Files Can Comply with Section 508. Now It's Your Move.
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Accessible PDF: A Strategic Review
Thursday, April 22, 2004
The very flexibility of PDF and the tremendous power of Acrobat make real accessibility (also known as "usability") so very, very hard to accomplish.
An Introduction to Accessible PDF
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Government and business have both begun to recognize the significance of accessibility with respect to electronic documents
Tags or Scripts for Accessible Forms?
Thursday, April 22, 2004
An in-depth look at forms accessibility, and why it pays (in this case) to ignore Adobe's recommendations.
What Is PDF?
Thursday, April 1, 2004
PDF documents are electronic paper, a snapshot in time, with the same predictable reliability of a fax.
Why Send a PDF?
Thursday, April 1, 2004
Dependability is just one reason why PDF format should be at the top of your list when sending files to others.
PDF Online 101 - A Crash Course
Thursday, April 1, 2004
Top 10 tips for creating usable PDF files.
February 2003
Strategies for PDF Accessibility: Tagged PDF vs Accessibility for the Masses
Thursday, February 20, 2003
Pros and cons of Adobe's current strategy.
May 2001
REVIEW - Adobe Acrobat 5.0: "Focus on the Document"
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Acrobat and Acrobat Reader 5.0 represent meaningful progress in Acrobat application development, but are largely evolutionary steps for the core PDF applications.
August 2000
REVIEW: Acrobat Capture 3.0x: Adobe Fires Back, Nearly Misses
Thursday, August 24, 2000
Despite its many new features, out of the box, we found Adobe Capture 3.0 virtually unusable--from botched OCR to basic image quality in skew-adjusted images.
September 2009
PDF in Snow Leopard's Preview? Maybe Not.
Friday, September 4, 2009
A quick look at PDF handling in Snow Leopard's new Preview reveals significant problems.
August 2009
Understanding Acrobat's Optimizer
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Optimizer is a smart last step before securing and deploying PDF files.
Make Your PDFs Work Well with Google
Friday, August 14, 2009
PDFs are an often-ignored source of SEO (Search Engine Optimization.
The PDF Prescription for Health Care Cost Control
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
We don't have to stick with paper and its limitations, but we DO have to deal with the grinding gears between the various systems in use.
July 2009
PDF Central Conference 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
It was at last year's PDF Central Conference that we announced the creation of Appligent Document Solutions, so I'm especially happy to be returning for this year's Conference in Minneapolis., September 22-24, 2009.
PDF Software Reviews
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Appligent Document Solutions CEO Duff Johnson's collected PDF software reviews.
June 2009
How Reader Extensions Should be Sold
Saturday, June 20, 2009
To gain the maximum value from Extensions, Adobe should rescale the intended takeup point to accommodate departments and small businesses.
May 2009
PDF/UA now ISO/AWI 14289
Thursday, May 28, 2009
The first formal step in the ISO process which ends (we hope) in an ISO Standard for accessible PDF.
PDF is Green Tech for Your Office
Monday, May 18, 2009
One of the greenest office technologies ever invented is already on your computer; the lowly PDF file.
December 2008
Toward a Standard for Accessible PDF
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
AIIM's PDF/UA Committee will submit their draft standard to ANSI to become an ISO standard.
Again with Google!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Google Polishes Chrome
Friday, December 12, 2008
New Perspective on Servers
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Yet Another Reader Extensions Gripe
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Is Reader Really a Dog?
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Saving PDF Forms in Reader
Thursday, December 4, 2008
November 2008
AcroTeX PDF Blog Rumbles to Life
Monday, November 24, 2008
Working with FDF: The FDF Toolkit
Monday, November 24, 2008
Let's Talk About FDF
Friday, November 21, 2008
Google WILL Index Your Scanned PDFs!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
October 2008
Adobe Posts New Accessibility Resources
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Scripting Ain't Just for Hollywood
Sunday, October 12, 2008
September 2008
PDF Central Conference Presentations
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Google's Chrome: Initial Reflections
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
August 2008
PDF Central Conference Coming In September
Sunday, August 17, 2008
The Content that Endures: What to Know About PDF/A
Thursday, August 14, 2008
The Content that Endures
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Why I Love Adobe's New ClearScan
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Why Reader Remains the Standard for PDF Viewing
Thursday, August 7, 2008
September 2007
Understanding Acrobat's Optimizer
Friday, September 7, 2007
July 2007
The First PDF Reference Committee Meeting
Thursday, July 5, 2007
May 2007
Non-English PDF Resources Now a Page
Monday, May 28, 2007
Resources In Languages Other Than English
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
About Time!
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
AGI's Acrobat PDF Conference 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Lose the Buttons: An Acrobat 8 Tip
Sunday, May 13, 2007
April 2007
Developing Accessible PDF: An Introduction
Sunday, April 22, 2007
PDF/Universal Accessibility Update
Saturday, April 21, 2007
March 2007
Converting PDF to Word: Understanding the Problem
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Adobe Acrobat PDF Conference, May 9-10, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Are We Connecting?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
February 2007
PDF Goes to ISO: The Road Ahead
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
PDF Bookmarking Software: A Comparison
Saturday, February 24, 2007
REVIEW: PDF Bookmarks: Surveying the Options
Thursday, February 22, 2007
PDF Goes to ISO: Some Background
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Using PDF for Help Files
Thursday, February 8, 2007
New Article: PDF in Government
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
PDF in Government
Friday, February 2, 2007
January 2007
Acrobat 8's Help: A Review
Friday, January 12, 2007
Last Week's "Reader/XSS Scare" Kerfuffle
Sunday, January 7, 2007
December 2006
Acrobat 8: The MacAddict Interview
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Acrobat 8 represents a serious effort on Adobe's part to awaken end-users to PDF's higher uses.
Blind Spots: PDF and Section 508 Compliance
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Blind and other disabled individuals can not only read PDF files, but Word files, web pages and other electronic content using "assistive" software or hardware, depending on their disability.
Adobe Document Center: Report from the Field
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Putting Adobe Document Center to the test with a real document distributed to a reasonably savvy group of people.
Adobe Document Center: Security You Can Really Use
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Simply put, Adobe's new Document Center allows you to secure PDF (and now .doc and .xls!) files in meaningful and really useful ways.
Acrobat 8 JavaScript Reference Now Available
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
New essential reading from Adobe.
Now Cometh the PDF Reference, 1.7
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Available for free download.
November 2006
PDF Usability: Debate and Reality
Monday, November 20, 2006
A debate rages about whether and how one should take advantage of viewing PDF files online via the Adobe Reader plug-in to a Web browser.
Cut It Out, or Copy Without? Redacting with Acrobat 8 Professional vs. Redax
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Acrobat 8's redaction tool has been generally well received, although a few discriminating reviewers have also noted a key concern with the method Adobe chose for redaction.
Acrobat 8 Meets the Extended Rights Manifesto
Friday, November 10, 2006
Acrobat 8 Professional now offers three ways to "bless" a PDF with Extended Rights.
Help Joe Clark Start The Open and Closed Project
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Joe Clark's new Open and Closed Project plans to write a set of standards for the four fields of accessible media - captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing.
Acrobat 8 and the Extended Rights Manifesto
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
One of the new Extended Rights, Reader Save allows an Acrobat Pro user to "bless" a PDF such that form-fields may be completed and then saved by any user with the free Adobe Reader.
October 2006
Acrobat Is a RAD Tool!
Monday, October 30, 2006
When Adobe began expanding PDF beyond a portable file with reliable printed output, they added navigational, interactive and other features intended to improve the end-user experience.
September 2006
A PDF Perspective on Google Book Search
Friday, September 29, 2006
For many works in the public-domain, Google makes complete cover-to-cover scans of the book available to users as images in an online viewer and also... you guessed it, as a PDF.
Reader Can Save: A New Day Dawns for PDF
Sunday, September 17, 2006
A PDF form enabled for Reader Save in Acrobat 8 Professional may now be completed and SAVED using the free Adobe Reader!
Four More Articles: Digital Signatures, Maximizing PDF and More
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Four (in some cases controversial) articles from acrobatusers.com.
August 2006
Google Offers Out-of-Print Books In PDF
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
And they're free!
Acrobat Bookmarks: Why and How
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Bookmarks provide an intuitive navigational and functional system that is highly desirable for any file and absolutely vital for longer documents.
Extended Rights Manifesto Gets 10th Article
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Acrobat Professional should be able to bestow form rights on a PDF without limitation or reservation.
A Valuable Resource for Accessible PDF
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Guide to Creating Accessible PDFs using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional.
A Milestone: Acrobat Help Now Online
Monday, August 7, 2006
Now, if we could only have appropriate page breaks and page numbers.
Acrobat Gems: The Measuring Tool
Thursday, August 3, 2006
Quickly and easily measure any map, drawing or diagram, no matter the format.
Maximizing PDF Usability
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Optimizing PDF with usability features that will satisfy the vast majority of users is much easier than optimizing HTML.
July 2006
Manifesto Now a Page...
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Share your your comments and suggestions.
Acrobat Gems: Create a Blank PDF Page
Monday, July 24, 2006
Great, much-needed tip with no workarounds required!
Reader Extensions: A Manifesto
Monday, July 24, 2006
Views on the "ideal" Reader Extensions business model.
Digital Signatures with PDF and Acrobat
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Many compatible technologies hold real promise to assist in the acceptance and integration of digital signatures.
Standards for PDF
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Leonard Rosenthal just wrote a summary of the PDF Standards currently under development.
PDF Needs YOU for PDF/UA!
Monday, July 10, 2006
We need more involvement from both the PDF and the assistive-technology developer communities!
June 2006
What Are “PDF Tags” and Why Should I Care?
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
A basic overview of what Section 508 accessibility means in the world of PDF, and why that might matter to you.
Easy Spell-Check for Bloggers
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
It's easy to spell-check when typing directly into your Blog (or any other HTML form)... all you need is the Google Toolbar.
REVIEW: A Survey of Redaction Tools
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Don't try to redact with Acrobat 7.0, but there are some really great ways to go about redaction in PDF.
Welcome to the PDF Perspective
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
In this Blog, I'm going to try to offer tips, comments, suggestions, complaints, praise, interesting links, and some of the perspective I've gained watching this industry grow.
Making your PDFs work well with Google
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
February 2006
What Are "PDF Tags" and Why Should I Care?
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
If accessibility is important (or mandatory), or if you want your files to work well on mobile devices, then you need to learn to tag your PDFs.
July 2005
Legacy Content Conversion: Generating Citations, Revenue and Goodwill from Your Publication History
Monday, July 25, 2005
Tips on articulating needs, technology choices and business models to serve as a reference point for associations, journals and libraries considering digitizing published content.
April 2005
REVIEW: ARTS PDF's Aerialist Pro
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Aerialist Professional has added depth to Aerialist's essentials, a variety of prepress (actually multi-function) tools and powerful batch automation.
February 2005
REVIEW: First Impressions of Acrobat 7.0
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
"Commenting", accessibility and security highlighted in Adobe Acrobat 7.0.
Planet PDF Launches New PDF Accessibility and Section 508 Forum
Thursday, February 10, 2005
In Acrobat 7.0, Adobe has added new tools to make PDFs more accessible to users with disabilities and improve compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
April 2004
What Is Tagged PDF?
Thursday, April 22, 2004
In PDF files, structure, reading order, figures, lists, tables, and so on, is expressed via "tags".
PDF Files Can Comply with Section 508. Now It's Your Move.
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Accessible PDF: A Strategic Review
Thursday, April 22, 2004
The very flexibility of PDF and the tremendous power of Acrobat make real accessibility (also known as "usability") so very, very hard to accomplish.
An Introduction to Accessible PDF
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Government and business have both begun to recognize the significance of accessibility with respect to electronic documents
Tags or Scripts for Accessible Forms?
Thursday, April 22, 2004
An in-depth look at forms accessibility, and why it pays (in this case) to ignore Adobe's recommendations.
What Is PDF?
Thursday, April 1, 2004
PDF documents are electronic paper, a snapshot in time, with the same predictable reliability of a fax.
Why Send a PDF?
Thursday, April 1, 2004
Dependability is just one reason why PDF format should be at the top of your list when sending files to others.
PDF Online 101 - A Crash Course
Thursday, April 1, 2004
Top 10 tips for creating usable PDF files.
February 2003
Strategies for PDF Accessibility: Tagged PDF vs Accessibility for the Masses
Thursday, February 20, 2003
Pros and cons of Adobe's current strategy.
May 2001
REVIEW - Adobe Acrobat 5.0: "Focus on the Document"
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Acrobat and Acrobat Reader 5.0 represent meaningful progress in Acrobat application development, but are largely evolutionary steps for the core PDF applications.
August 2000
REVIEW: Acrobat Capture 3.0x: Adobe Fires Back, Nearly Misses
Thursday, August 24, 2000
Despite its many new features, out of the box, we found Adobe Capture 3.0 virtually unusable--from botched OCR to basic image quality in skew-adjusted images.
