Phoenix Acrobat SIG report

["Carl L. Young" <carl -at- DIGIPUBCORP -dot- COM>]

The Phoenix Acrobat Special Interest Group (SIG) of STC had two wonderful
presentations at its regular meeting.

Dave Williamson of Bull demoed several of the 9 CDs he has produced using
Acrobat, and Sulojana Blows of BCL Computers showed us a terrific demo of
BCL's PDF to RTF converter, Jade.

Jade is a plug-in to Exchange. It provides an on-screen tool that allows the
user to zone a section of Acrobat text and then drag and drop the text
(including formats) into a Word file. It also does tables. The audience was
impressed.

BCL also has converters for PDF to HTML, and PDF to TIF.

More information is available at www.bcl-computers.com.

Our host, Dave Williamson of Bull, showed us how he has automated the
production of Microsoft Office products to PDF. Bull has cut the costs of
producing some of its sales materials from $90 per unit to $2 by using
Acrobat. His CDs have 1,300 files Acrobat files on them.

Dave has developed his own production product, called Dancer, that populates
the Acrobat title and file properties box with information from the Office
application's properties box. In addition, the process creates thumbnails
and sets the PDF file's View properties automatically.

If you would like a copy of Dave's presentation, or to learn more, Dave can
be reached at dave -dot- williamson -at- bull -dot- com

My thanks to the 21 people who attended the Jan. 21 Acrobat SIG, and again
to Bull for hosting the meeting.

The next meeting will be 4-6 p.m. March 18. We will give you an update on
the site once that has been confirmed.

--Carl Young, Acrobat SIG Manager

Carl L. Young
DigiPub Solutions Corp.
(602) 788-6512
Adobe FrameMaker, Acrobat, and FrameMaker+SGML sales, training, and
consulting
www.digipubcorp.com


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