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8: 30- 10 a. m.

Track 1: Hopi Room

Mitzi Haley: Getting the PDF Workflow On-Track

As PDF documents travel through the workflow, a variety of numerous problems can occur. The ability to fix those problems without going back to the native application has become a critical need. Now technology that goes beyond repair, with the ability to "preflight" a PDF document to insure its readiness before it is sent through the workflow, is here. In fact, we now have solutions that allow users to create a set of repeatable corrections, so that PDF documents can be repaired or modified to conform to a company's styleguides on-the-fly, automatically and without operator intervention.

Mitzi Haley, Enfocus Software's Senior Product Specialist, talks about these situations in the rapidly expanding, PDF-savvy publishing segment.

Track 2: Pima Room

Gary Staas: Enhancing Documents with Custom Annotations

Acrobat annotations provide a straightforward way to bring new capabilities to PDF documents. Annotations are not limited to the standard types described in the PDF Reference Manual. The Acrobat annotation handler plug-in API provides the facilities to create custom annotations with whatever appearance and behavior or "look and feel" you desire. In addition, you can define the behavior you want in annotations; the Forms plug-in illustrates complex appearance and behavior in an annotation. Since a plug-in is a program, it's possible to repurpose existing code to work in an annotation handler.

Track 3: Yuma Room

Lindsay Moir: Superdistributing PDFs Securely

Superdistribution is generally recognized as the way in which things made of bits will be sold. We will examine a number of secure PDF selling solutions and compare them to the seminal book Superdistribution: Objects as property on the electronic frontier. These will include InterTrust, Rights-Market, Adobe PDF Merchant, and Xerox Content Guard (not an exhaustive list). Topics such as persistent encryption, authorization, metering, disconnected use, and multiple formats will be covered.

10: 30 a. m.-noon

Track 1: Hopi Room

Joseph Schorr: Preflight for PDF

As the use of PDF in high end publishing becomes more widespread, there is an increasing need for high-quality preflighting tools that can be used to check the quality and integrity of the files.

Some experts estimate that as many as 75 percent of the files submitted for output contain errors or problems that result in missed deadlines, long processing times, or even wasted film or plates. With the myriad of job options available via Acrobat Distiller, service providers face a continual education task: trying to get customers to build PDFs that meet their specifications and output properly.

A solid, well-tuned arsenal of preflighting tools lets service providers head off these problems, saving money and time for both their customers and themselves. This session looks at the tools available and examines the latest generation of Internet-based preflight tools that are streamlining PDF workflow even further. While a number of good desktop preflighting tools exist, one of the biggest complaints heard from printers and service bureaus is that the preflight process typically happens much too late in the production cycle. Ideally, files should be preflighted before they are submitted to a service provider, while they are still in the hands of the professionals who actually create the documents. We'll look at how this challenge is being tackled and provide examples of how proper preflight can rescue service providers from nightmare jobs as early in the workflow as possible.

Track 2: Pima Room

Chuck Wegrzyn Digital Media, Digital Rights and Digital Delivery

We will discuss the types of digital content that cross the Internet today and the role of PDF. We will show how the data can be protected contrasting container type protection schemes and other modes. We will contrast persistent information protection from delivery protection mechanisms, and show how these schemes impact digital rights. Finally, we will show how choosing the right means of protection can lead to new opportunities in conducting business over the Internet resulting in faster time to market and new business models.

Track 3: Yuma Room

Leonard Rosenthol: Using XML and PDF Together

As the web has continued to grow and expand, new technologies have come onto the scene, the one that has garnered the most attention among both developers and users alike is XML. XML provides a lingua-franca for data exchange based around structured content and is flexible enough to serve purposes from eCommerce to graphic formats. This presentation will show how XML can be combined with the PDF to produce rich dynamic PDF files on a web server.

1- 2: 45 p. m.

Track 1: Hopi Room

Tommy Petrogiannis: Leveraging Adobe Acrobat/ PDF with Electronic Signatures

This session will discuss how implementation of electronic approval into the enterprise's established business procedures and IT infrastructure can eliminate the costs and time associated with the management and routing of documents requiring signatures. Participants will discuss the technological feasibility and necessity of implementing electronic approval into their enterprise's PDF forms, workflow processes and web based applications.

Track 2: Pima Room

Max Wyss: Smart Documents-JavaScripts in PDF

Smart documents are documents which change contents and/or appearance depending on the user's actions. The requirements for such a document format shot PDF being most suitable. After an overview over the generating process, the needed tools, and the available documentation, a number of examples are shown. These examples come from various fields, such as administration (forms with help functionality), education (foreign language training), science (engineering handbooks with evaluatable equations), and catalogs (spare part catalogs with ordering system (shopping cart), and configuration tools).

Track 3: Yuma Room

Lance Urbas: Security & Protection-The Great Inhibitors in Electronic Commerce

You will be provided a vision into an array of solutions to meet corporate security and privacy needs in electronic commerce in an age of knowledge. The issues affecting security on a national and international scale will be discussed as well as the different technologies available to remedy security problems including PDF. Additionally we will provide a professional view of the trajectory of secure communications and transactions for the knowledge age.

3- 4: 30 p. m.

Track 1: Hopi Room

Stevan Vigneaux: Full Life Cycle File Security

This presentation will discuss why information should be protected through its entire life cycle and describe how to use PDF to do so. The presentation will describe the life of a file from creation through editing and distribution up to and including its eventual end-of-life. The session will explain why file security is important at each stage. Special emphasis would be placed on "the unsolved problem" of security after delivery and tracking usage. It would be explained that unless control is persistent it isn't really control at all.

Track 2: Pima Room

Russell Hollmann: PDF- A Web Designer's Best Friend

This presentation will uncover the powerful role that PDF can play from the start to finish of any web project. We'll have a detailed discussion on the use of Web Capture, including the creation of information aggregating agents, the ability to build collections of competing or example sites for easy research and reference, and archiving web projects. We will also demonstrate the richness of PDF for sharing design concepts and information modeling, project data such as timelines, and even the use of Acrobat as a presentation platform to clients.

Track 3: Yuma Room

Flatt and Heric: PDF Production Workflow

The seminar content is focused on Quark Express users and the transition to InDesign for creating magazines, advertising and consumer marketing material. The seminar content will be presented for a production environment focused on final output of pdf files for proofing and delivery. The content will include how these various products work in a ColorSync environment and how that can be beneficial to production. It will include how the new e-commerce delivery services coordinate with the pdf production.

4: 30 - 5 p. m.

Track 1: Hopi Room

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Track 3: Yuma Room

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