Man, I didn't know Acrobat could do that!

Well this is a question for the ages now isn’t it.  Why? Is Word more important than Excel?  Only Microsoft can tell us that! I do get asked many times, “Tim, why can I export a PDFback to Word and not Excel, or PowerPoint?â€? 

Ok, let’s look at this a little, why ever export back to any format?  Well, there are a few answers here, mostly for lost of original documents, but also for simple data reuse.  So why only Word?  (â€?Don’t get pushy here!â€?) Well because Word is a universal format within the Microsoft world.  I can copy from Word into all other Office products, with decent fidelity.  But, you say that spreadsheets are different!  They have tables, rows, columns, lions, tigers, and bears, Oh My! But never fear my young PDFling, there is a way to get your table data out of PDF directly to Excel!

Watch, enjoy and put some life in your life.

Tim

In this episode, Tim gets festive and shows you how to create a multimedia e-card using Acrobat 8 Professional. He takes a photo which he created in Photoshop CS3 and then created a PDF, after that, he created a blank PDF and added his holiday message to you. He then added a very cool track from the Brian Setzer Orchestra (click here to purchase) and then added a few buttons for multimedia control and navigation and finished with a lesson on taking the whole thing full screen! A fun romp through PDF toyland. Have fun and Happy Holidays! Click here for the card from Tim!

Remember to keep some life in your life and show some love to someone!

Be safe and have a happy holidays!

Tim

In my blog, I was asked a question from Liz and it made me think, humm, what’s for dinner, whoops, got off track there, actually the question was: “I understood the lesson you gave on creating forms and then distributing them. But what if my organization wants to create a form and post it to our Web site for people to download and complete, then mail back? Is there no way to do that? Must it be distributed via e-mail by me, the document/form creator?â€? This is a great question!  The answer is no, you can easily do this using a simular approach, watch here!  And remember to keep some life in your life!

Tim Huff

Man, I didn't know Acrobat could do that! In this episode, Tim shows you how to fix a problem with Microsoft Office 2007 and the Acrobat PDFMakers getting turned off when Microsoft word crashes.  Tim has 2 blog entries that also cover there.

1. The documented procedure from Adobe - Click Here
2. The Drastic approach "Reg Edit!!" - Click Here

Good luck and I hope this helps!

Tim

In this episode, Tim takes a swim through the new Acrobat 8 User Interface and will try to stay dry and not drown is a sea of icons!

In this episode, Tim, faces his demons and borrows a Mac to show you how to Create a forms data collection work flows using Acrobat 8 Professional on the Mac Platform.
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In this episode, Tim will show you how to take a Word Document, that has no real form fields on it and create a secure Acrobat PDF form.  This work flow will only work on the Windows Platform as the Adobe LiveCycle Designer is not available on the Mac Platform.  (of course if you are using Boot camp or Parallels, you can run the Windows Version and do this!).  As always, keep some life in your life and I will see you next week.

Tim

Man, I didn't know Acrobat could do that!  A podcast series by Tim Huff of Adobe Systems to help you learn more about how to use Adobe Acrobat 8.  In this show, Tim shows you how to create a blank PDF page with text and graphics, with out leaving the Acrobat 8 environment.