UPDATED: 14 July | Originally Posted: 2 June 2003

We've posted all currently available PDF Conference speaker presentations! Please note that in a few cases -- including the presentation shown at right by Dov Isaacs of Adobe Systems -- the use of either Adobe Reader 6.0 or Acrobat 6.0 may be REQUIRED to open and view one of the available versions of the PDF-based presentation. Those files are marked accordingly with an explanation and link to download the free Reader 6.0 software, if necessary. NOTE: We have recently added versions of these presentations by Dov Issacs that are compatible with Adobat 5.x.

Monday, June 2

• "Acrobat 6: The Early Years" [PDF: 1.6 MB]
  Gary Cosimini, Adobe Systems, Business Development Director, Creative Professional Product Group

• "Digital Security Needs for NIH Grant Review" [PDF: 565kb]
  Moderator, Dr. Gregory Milman, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

• "Serving PDFs on the Web" [PDF: 280kb]
  Leonard Rosenthol, PDF Sages

• "Comparing PDF Output from Quark, InDesign, FrameMaker and Publisher" [PDF: 640kb]
  Claudia McCue, Practicalia

• "Customizing the Acrobat Interface"
  Douglas Hanna, Hewitt Associates

• "Maximize the Impact of Your PDF Communications with Multimedia" [PDF: 1.4MB]
  Lori DeFurio, Adobe ePaper Developer Evangelist

• "PDF Knowledgebases: In Manufacturing and in Large Research Projects" [PDF: 100kb]
  Chris Carson, Environmental Safety Engineer, Mueller Co.

• "PDF Best Practices: Essentials" [PDF: 1 MB]
  Shlomo Perets, MicroType

Tuesday, June 3

• "Adobe Acrobat 6: What's New with JavaScript" [PDF: 23kb]
  Max Wyss, Prodok Engineering

• "Acrobat Review and Markup"
  Lori DeFurio, Adobe ePaper Developer Evangelist

• "Enhanced Collaboration with Acrobat" [PDF: 3.1 MB]
  Lori DeFurio, Adobe ePaper Developer Evangelist

• "Preparing PDF files for Prepress" [PDF: 1 MB]
  Michael Jahn, Pantone Hexachrome Evangelist

• "Enfocus Case Study: Employing Enfocus Certified PDF Workflow"
  James McQueen, Cadmus Publishing

• "Installing & Configuring Acrobat for Fun & Profit" [PDF: 3.3 MB] NOTE: The version above REQUIRES either Adobe Reader 6 or Acrobat 6. It won't even open under older versions.
  Installing & Configuring Acrobat for Fun & Profit [PDF: 4.0 MB] -- this version is compatible with Acrobat 5.x
  Dov Isaacs, Adobe Systems

• "Cooking Up Enhanced PDFs with PDFMark Recipes" [PDF: 4.7 MB]
  Lynn Mead, Global Graphics

• "Breaking the Rules" [PDF: 1.6 MB]
  Pattie Belle Hastings and Sandee Cohen, co-authors, The Acrobat 5 Master Class

• Panel: "Creating and Converting Accessible PDF" [PDF: ]
  Moderated by Paul Showalter, IRS and Greg Pisocky, Adobe Systems

• "Acrobat 6 User Interface"
  Andrea Mangini, Adobe Systems, Inc.

• "Using Bookmarks Effectively" [PDF: 99kb]
  Shlomo Perets, MicroType

• "CrossMedia and PDF: The New Publishing Equation" [PDF: 804kb]
  Ken Spears, CrossMedia Magazine

• "Acrobat Batch Sequences" [PDF: 94kb]
  Bob Anderson, Hewlett Packard

• "PDF Best Practices: Screen-optimized PDFs" [PDF: 656kb]
  Shlomo Perets, MicroType

• "Working with Graphics and PDF" [PDF: 388kb]
  Leonard Rosenthol, PDF Sages

• "The Font Aquarium: the Wonders of PDF Fonts explained" [PDF: 98kb]
  Thomas Merz, PDFlib

Wednesday, June 4

• "Reliable PDF Creation? What's New in Acrobat 6" [PDF: 3.9 MB] NOTE: The version above REQUIRES either Adobe Reader 6 or Acrobat 6. It won't even open under older versions.
  Reliable PDF Creation? What's New in Acrobat 6 [PDF: 4.6 MB] - this version is compatible with Acrobat 5.x
  Dov Isaacs, Adobe Systems

• "Live Digital Documents for the Enterprise: XML/PDF Forms Strategy" [PDF: 787kb]
  Chris Ethier, Senior Product Manager, Adobe Systems

• "PDF as a Presentation Tool" [PDF: 699kb]
  Pattie Belle Hastings and Sandee Cohen, authors

• Creating and processing PDF/X for High-Quality Output"
  Olaf Druemmer, callas software

• "Improving Engineering Document Processes: Secure Electronic Document Exchange" [PDF: 534kb]
  Diana C. Helander, Sr. Adobe Product Marketing Manager, ePaper

• "PDF for Archiving (PDF/A) Overview" [PDF: 88kb]
  Stephen P. Levenson, Records Policy Officer, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

• "Creating PDFs from Microsoft Office Products" [PDF: 2.8 MB]
  Claudia McCue, Practicalia

• "Electronic Seals and Signatures for Engineering Documents" [PDF: 260kb]
  Donald W. Anderson, Engineering and Design, Atlantic Division Naval FacilitiesEngineering Command

• "Explaining Complex Projects: PDF - The New Tool" [PDF: 140kb]
  Tim Rodgers and Malcom Dove, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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  "Publishing Engineering Data to PDF" [PDF: 120kb]
  Andrew Skillen, Layton Graphics

• "Enfocus Customer Story PDF in Engineering: Geographic Information Systems"

• "Control the PDF Viewing Experience" [PDF: 364kb]
  Mark Czajka, Director of New Technology, Automated Graphic Systems

• "PreFlighting PDFs"
  Ken Spears, CrossMedia

• "eForms in Regulated Environments: Case Study on Implementing an Enterprise-Scale Electronic Forms Solution" [PDF: 628kb]
  Ian Altman, ITM Associates, Inc. and Lawrence Lee, EPA

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