Dan Shea
With the recent acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe-watchers around the world ponder the future of Acrobat and the PDF format. Planet PDF recently spoke to Adobe Acrobat's Director of Product Marketing, Pam Deziel at the Adobe Acrobat and PDF conference to find out. See the interview at Planet PDF.
Dan Shea
Q&A with Ted Padova on his Adobe Reader 7 Revealed: Working Effectively with Acrobat PDF Files which publisher Peachpit Press calls "the first-ever book on this wildly popular PDF viewer." Read the full interview at Planet PDF.
Ernest Svenson
When Bill Clinton was President, he signed into law legislation that was supposed to pave the way for electronic transactions. Well, Clinton's been gone for quite a while now, but the legislation remains -- so why aren't more legal transactions carried out electronically? PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson explains.
David Fishel
Electronic displays can't yet match the resolution and "readability" of paper, but they can do the next best thing -- with the right monitor, that is. PDFforLawyers.com's Dave Fishel explains in this piece on PDF readability and the relevance of screen size among other factors.
David Fishel
Want to learn how to e-file your legal documents in 15 minutes or less? What are the rules and regulations, and how do they apply to your practice? Read on as PDFforLawyers.com's Dave Fishel explains in this piece on creating legal PDFs destined for electronic filing, or e-filing for short.
David Fishel
Much ado about metadata. What is it, and when is it useful? Perhaps more importantly, when is it a liability? PDFforLawyers.com's Dave Fishel answers these questions and many more, providing useful "real-world" examples in this piece on metadata in PDF and source formats.
Nick Hodge
Nick Hodge from Adobe's Pacific division wrote Moonshine script to use the PDF rendering engine of Photoshop to generate JPEGs for web-site publication and client review. Rather than re-generate smaller PDFs, the original Moonshine asked Photoshop to open the PDFs, and render a JPEG from the first page. Moonshine2 updates this to work with Photoshop CS's JavaScript engine.
Ernest Svenson
Mac OS X comes with an excellent PDF viewer built in. The Preview application is a fast, simple viewer. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of even Adobe Reader, but it uses a lot less overhead. Best of all, it's fast. PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson explains.
David Fishel
If you are going to provide something to your clients (or prospective clients) via the Net, please, please, please don't make it a Windows executable file. "But why?" I hear you cry. Never fear, PDFforLawyers.com's Dave Fishel explains in this piece on the relative merits of PDF and Windows executables.
David Fishel
About 10 years ago, the industry practice was to scan paper documents to TIFF images, run an OCR process to create a searchable text record, and then add the relevant metadata to a bibliographic database. Managing three layers of data for every document was time-consuming and inefficient. Surely there had to be an easier way! PDFforLawyers.com's Dave Fishel explains.
Dan Shea
When Leonard Rosenthol co-founded PDF Sages, he was already one of the most well known and respected software developers for the Apple Macintosh, with a strong pedigree in PDF after noteworthy stints at Adobe and Appligent. Planet PDF recently caught up with this seasoned speaker and true PDF sage to get his take on Adobe's latest Acrobat offering.
Dan Shea
Chris Dahl is the Chief Technology Officer of ARTS PDF Global Services (APGS), a leading global provider of PDF professional services, and can boast a CV that firmly places him in an exclusive group of CTOs leading the largest and most innovative PDF projects in the world. Planet PDF recently spoke to him about Acrobat 7.0 and its impact on developers and forms workflows. Dan Shea reports.
David Fishel
Lawyers are publishers. They research, write, edit, and publish (under deadlines), just like journalists, authors, academics, etc. The good news is that, because of PDF's roots in the publishing industry, there is a huge body of knowledge about workflow, automation, and customization of PDFs in that business. Legal folks would do well to learn from existing workflows and tools.
Dan Shea
One of the pioneers introducing PDF to the enterprise, Duff Johnson founded Document Solutions, Inc. in 1996 to leverage the power of the then-emerging PDF format in publishing and business communications. In an interview with Planet PDF, the PDF and accessibility guru shares his thoughts about Acrobat 7.0 and what it means for the PDF industry. Dan Shea reports.
David Fishel
There are many excellent reasons to get good at using PDF in legal practice. One compelling motivation is that it is the standard for electronic filing in the Federal Courts. The rollout of the eFiling/case management program from the Administrative Office for the US Courts is well underway.
