• Create PDFs without Adobe Acrobat Professional

    Sep 21.09 | Design   

    Need to distribute a document?  Whether you are emailing it, adding it to a course site, or putting it on a web page, you should be using the Adobe Acrobat PDF (portable document format) file type.   Adobe gives their version of the viewer program for free, but charges for the full, professional version of Adobe Acrobat which allows the conversion of a document to the PDF format.  This professional version has a lot of powerful features, but if all you want to do is convert Word, Excel and other documents to the PDF format, the purchase cost is a little much.  One of these free alternatives may be just what you need:

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  • Put your web pages on a diet

    Sep 16.09 | Design   

    Do you still keep track of the how many kilobytes, or even megabytes, your web pages are delivering to the customer?  Back in the day of dial-up modems your minimized files sizes or perished.  But not that we all have speedy cable/dsl connections does it matter anymore?  I think so, and here’s why: Read the rest of this entry »

  • Collecting data via Acrobat forms

    Sep 02.09 | Technology   

    To meet a client’s needs I decided to give the Adobe Acrobat forms features a try.  With just a little bit of work you can build an interactive form which can be distributed to many users via email/website/etc.  And when the responses come back they all get collected into one master document.  It is very nice when technology works so well.

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