Planet PDF Newsletter - PDF Sage sizes up Acrobat 7.0

Thursday February 3, 2005

In this issue

Leonard Rosenthol: First Impressions of Acrobat 7.0
By 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.

Why PDF in legal? #3 -- The Unified Document Theory

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.

AGI's Acrobat & PDF Conference set for April 20-21 in Florida

The Adobe Acrobat & PDF Conference, hosted by American Graphics Institute (AGI), will be held April 20-21 in Orlando, Florida. So what can you expect from this event? Kurt Foss reports.

Ubiquitous PDF: Don't be a Super Bowl couch potato

Want to catch the big game, but not let your fitness level slip? This might be the answer -- download a one-page, printable PDF describing a set of easy exercises that can be done during this weekend's Super Bowl game.

Adobe Magazine highlights new Acrobat 7 features

A special edition of the PDF-based Adobe Magazine, published quarterly by Adobe Pacific, provides an overview of the new features of the Acrobat 7.0 family. Check out the full story at Planet PDF.

PDF Timesavers
Comparing differences in PDFs

To highlight differences between different versions of the same PDF use Acrobat's Compare Tool.

In Acrobat go to Document > Compare Documents.
Select the two documents you wish to compare.
Choose a type of comparison (visual or textual differences).
Designate a report type (for a visual comparison use the Side by Side report).
Hit 'OK' and view the differences.


	Hot Topics Acrobat 7 & Photoshop vector data Forms and 'rights-enabled' PDFs Internal Links--Word Index Analyses for color and black & white pages Exporting face value after a special character


	Introduction to Acrobat & PDF If you've ever wondered about PDF, you'll find something of interest here. In this Learning Center, we try to answer some of the most basic questions about PDF.



	Andersen's Fairy Tales This week's classic free eBook is an anthology of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.




The Planet PDF Team tells you everything you need to know about the new release. Now shipping. Order the Standard, Professional or Upgrade version now.


	Acrobat 7 area So what's the latest on Adobe's current Acrobat product offerings? Check out Planet PDF's Acrobat 7 area or forum conference for the latest.


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	Adobe Government Forms: Serving People First This Adobe Resource addresses the benefits of integrating the Intelligent Document Platform with core business systems to extend process automation and access control.


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