Planet PDF now has many regular contributors. Below is an overview of each, with links to all their articles.

Aandi Inston

Aandi's articles focus on questions and problems he sees commonly arising in the PDF world. Aandi is a co-founder of Quite Software - developers of such PDF products as Quite A Box of Tricks and Quite Imposing. Additionally he is a regular participant in PDF related discussions online, where he uses his experience to help others. See all columns

Bryan Guignard

Provides you with an eclectic mix of articles designed for all levels of Acrobat/PDF users. Bryan is an Adobe Acrobat Certified Expert (ACE) and a regular contributor to Planet PDF Developer and other online PDF resource sites. He can usually be found hanging out in many of the PDF related newsgroups and forums. He's a graphic designer by trade, who loves surfing the web and pushing PDF to its limits. He has over 20 years of experience in the computer industry and calls himself a digital Jack of all trades. See all columns

Kas Thomas

Focuses on the use of JavaScript. Kas Thomas is a technical writer and programmer with an extensive background in desktop publishing. A consultant for Adobe Systems, Thomas writes widely on PDF-related topics and is in the process of completing a book about PDF programming (due out in the fall). His expertise extends not only to scripting languages like Perl and JavaScript but to procedural C and assembly language. See all columns

Dave Wraight

Contributes almost all the tips to our AcroTips sections on Planet PDF and AcroBuddies. Owner of LogiCo (www.imageco.com.au), Dave's been using Acrobat since it's inception (1992) and he enjoys the flexibility that Acrobat and PDF provide. Along with developing free Acrobat Utilities (Batch Print, MergePDF, PDFStat, RotatePage etc - see Planet PDF Developer), Dave spends many hours answering questions at the Planet PDF Forum. A complete list of (free) products that he has developed for Acrobat (Full version only), including source code can be found at ImageCo's partner site, LogiCo's Downloads Page. See all AcroTips

Scott Miller

Scott's column is an extension of his web site "PDF Research Companion: A Designer's Guide to the Portable Document Format" www.pdfresearch.com which seeks to provide explanations of the why's and how-to's of using Adobe Acrobat to manage documents and create digital publications. He serves as a graphic designer, PDF publications consultant, and trainer in Los Angeles through his company Performance Graphics www.performancegraphics.com. He encourages our readers to use the text of his articles in their own efforts to encourage decision-makers to "think PDF" when developing publications and production workflows. See all columns

Gordon Kent

Focuses on how we can publish content on the Web in PDF and collect data through PDF Forms. Gordon is Group Product Manager at Community Newspaper Company (CNC). He is also a consultant to a number of large corporations and well known as the author of Internet Publishing with Acrobat. See all columns

Tony McKinley

Tony's column focuses on making the move to online PDF content. Tony is Director of Solution Sales, at Captiva Software, ePaper columnist for Adobe and the author of From Paper to Web. He has been a pioneer in document-imaging technologies since 1983. See all columns

Max and Makiko

Max and Makiko are partners of PRODOK Engineering, a company based near Zurich, Switzerland specializing in providing specialized training or consulting companies who wish to achieve various low-paper workflow solutions. Max speaks frequently at conferences in Switzerland, Germany and the US about the ways in which Acrobat Forms technology can be stretched to its limits. With a master's degree in industrial engineering, he also has nearly 20 years of experience in technical writing and translation. See all columns

Shlomo Perets

Shlomo's company Microtype specializes in training for FrameMaker, FrameMaker+SGML and advanced Acrobat applications, FrameMaker-to-Acrobat integration, template development, technical writing and consulting. See all columns and contributions by Shlomo.

Duff Johnson

Duff Johnson is founder, president and CEO of Document Solutions, Inc. (www.document-solutions.com), one of the first imaging service bureaus centered on paper-to-PDF services. DSI has provided state-of-the-art conversions since 1996. Focused on high-end conversions, its large, experienced staff use best-of-breed hardware, software and workflow techniques to convert documents for Fortune 500 companies, publishers, government agencies and international organizations. See all columns by Duff.