Adobe to Unveil Acrobat User Groups at PDF Conference

 
Aug 13, 2005
by Judith Dinowitz

Adobe is taking Acrobat into the user group realm, a fact that they'll be announcing at their upcoming annual PDF Conference on September 26 - 27 in Washington DC. As Macromedia developers and designers, we're used to user groups being a major part of Macromedia's community strategy, and I've heard some concern from fellow developers about whether Adobe will have the same close connection with their community. This article is a positive sign, one that would indicate that Adobe is concerned with fostering a closer connection to their developers.

According to this article, Adobe may be doing this now because they're having a hard time reaching out to the expanding PDF user market. While Adobe improves Acrobat every year, other companies, like Enfocus (mentioned specifically in the article) create more advanced PDF creation and verification tools. The proliferation of PDF's has also created new issues and challenges for both PDF creators and users, which the article discusses. PDFs from disparate sources may have mismatched color profiles, incorrect image resolutions or missing fonts. Some PDFs are unreadable because of file corruption or because the fonts weren't embedded in the PDF and Adobe's font-substitution features mangled the look of the page. Other problems can be caused when badly-formatted PDF's are created from Microsoft Word without a true understanding of how to use Word's style or table of contents features.

This article gave a glimpse into the world of printing and taught me that certain issues (such as a lack of standardization and bad code (or design)) exist in every medium.

Adobe to Unveil Acrobat User Groups at PDF Conference (PDFZone, September 16, 2005)

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