the best of volume 2 Contents Adobe Acrobat 7.0 General Interest Government and Enterprise Developer Creative and Print Brought to you by the best of volume 2 Contents Adobe Acrobat 7.0 General Interest Government and Enterprise Developer Creative and Print | home | Contents Developer: Learning Center: Introduction to Acrobat Development 47 Adobe Acrobat 7.0: Getting Started - Developing for PDF 47 Developing with Acrobat Javascript 49 Acrobat 7.0 - Planet PDF’s Take 1 Developing with PDF Forms 51 Acrobat 7.0 - Our First Look 2 Developing with Inter-Application Communication (IAC) 53 Acrobat 7 Product Family Feature Matrix 10 Learning Center: Introduction to Acrobat JavaScript 55 Pam Deziel back at Adobe for Acrobat 7 launch 13 What is Acrobat JavaScript? 55 What’s New with Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 19 Where Should I use Acrobat JavaScript? 56 Claudia McCue:First Impressions of Acrobat 7.0 21 Working with Events in Acrobat JavaScript 59 Max Wyss: First Impressions of Acrobat 7.0 23 Debugging Acrobat JavaScript 60 Duff Johnson: First Impressions of Acrobat 7.0 25 Example Acrobat JavaScripts 62 Chris Dahl: First Impressions of Acrobat 7.0 28 Leonard Rosenthol: First Impressions of Acrobat 7.0 30 Creative and Print: General Interest: PDF Master: Stephan Jaeggi talks with Planet PDF 64 PDF Master: The world according to Zipper 66 Q/A: Adobe’s John Landwehr on LiveCycle Policy Server 33 Learning Center: PDF Preflight 68 What is PDF Preflight? 68 Government and Enterprise: What’s the Problem With This PDF? 68 Knowing What to Look For 69 Why PDF in legal? #1 -- Because the Judge Said So 37 Preflighting PDF...Who, Where and How 71 Why PDF in legal? #2 -- Because You Are a Publisher 37 I Have Problems 72 Why PDF in legal? #3 -- The Unified Document Theory 37 Learning Center: PDF Color 72 An Introduction to Accessible PDF 38 PDF and Color Spaces 72 Accessible PDF: A Strategic Review 39 Color Spaces in Practice 74 PDF files can comply with Section 508. Now it’s your move 42 RGB versus CMYK 75 What is Tagged PDF? 45 About ICC 76 PDF Creation Tips 76 Life as a PDF 79 Sponsors 81 the best of volume 2 Contents Adobe Acrobat 7.0 General Interest Government and Enterprise Developer Creative and Print | home | | 1/81 Acrobat 7.0 - Planet PDF’s Take text, suggest changes, apply stamps, markup with ‘structured’ way by using the server’s security tools. By Karl De Abrew Planet PDF CEO drawing tools, and so on. Will PDF become a de facto This will give them greater control over when a docu- standard for document review as well as exchange? ment can be reviewed, how often or by whom, and Adobe is taking the Acrobat family mainstream with the can even revoke access after a document has been version 7.0 release. While feature-for-feature Acrobat Acrobat 7.0 Professional is being positioned at the distributed. 6.0 launched with many more (and really surprised center of business workflows, enabling ‘power users’ Planet PDF with its improvements), Acrobat 7.0 has to control how internal and external groups of users The Acrobat family names remain the same this time launched with what is arguably the most important can interact with documents. round (Acrobat 7.0 Professional, Acrobat 7.0 Stan- change to the Acrobat family since Reader was made dard, Acrobat 7.0 Elements and Adobe Reader 7.0), free back in version 2.0: Acrobat 7.0 Professional us- “Acrobat 7.0 has launched with what is arguably the as does the pricing for Professional (US $449) and ers can now give any Adobe Reader (6.0 or 7.0) user most important change to the Acrobat family since Standard (US $299). The one noticeable change is permission to review and markup PDF documents. Reader was made free back in version 2.0. “ that Adobe has lowered the entry level for Elements Karl De Abrew, CEO, Planet PDF users to a 100-seat license starting at US$39, which Editor’s Note: For more info on Acrobat 7.0 visit our spe- should result in it capturing smaller volume licensing cial Adobe Acrobat 7.0 feature. Power users can use the LiveCycle Form Designer deals. (included with Professional) to allow users to submit Adobe has taken the commenting tools to the masses form data in a number of news ways: They can con- The upgrade pricing (from Acrobat 4.0, Acrobat 5.0, - from millions of Acrobat users, to hundreds of mil- trol access to documents in an ‘ad hoc’ fashion using Acrobat 6.0 Standard to Acrobat 7.0 Standard) is lions of Adobe Reader users. When sent these files Acrobat’s own tools, or if LiveCycle Policy Server is in US$99, and the upgrade pricing (from Acrobat 4.0, from a Professional user, a Reader user can highlight use by their organization they can control access in a Acrobat 5.0, Acrobat 6.0 Standard & Acrobat 6.0 Pro- Advertisement the best of volume 2 Contents Adobe Acrobat 7.0 General Interest Government and Enterprise Developer Creative and Print | home | | 2/81 fessional) to Acrobat 7.0 Professional is US$159. If Document Reviewing & Markup During the process of exchanging a PDF for review you are planning to upgrade from any old version of Reader Enabled Commenting via email, you are given the choice to allow Adobe Acrobat (including Standard), we believe you should Reader users to participate. It’s as simple as that. seriously consider paying the extra $60 to get Acrobat This is probably the boldest change for Adobe Acro- You email the PDF to them, and when they open it Professional. bat 7.0 and Adobe Reader 7.0, and appears likely to in Adobe Reader 7.0, additional toolbars appear with Adobe has set the scene for a different landscape en- make a major long-term impact on both how PDF is an extensive range of markup and commenting tools, tirely with the targeting of its massive Adobe Reader used, and the number of people involved in the docu- including: user base and its targeting of smaller businesses with ment review process. its aggressive Acrobat Elements licensing. While Ado- Note tool be Reader users start to enjoy the reviewing capabili- Acrobat 7.0 (Professional only) now enables you to ties available, Adobe will be hoping they start thinking give Adobe Reader users permission to use all the • Highlight, underline, cross out text tools about what else they might be able to do with a full commenting and review tools that were previously • Indicate text edit tools (insert, delete o replace text) version of Acrobat. only available to Acrobat Professional and Standard • Stamp tools (including custom stamps) users - basically it was restricted to users who paid for • Attach file as a comment tool Where will we find ourselves by the time Acrobat 8.0 the functionality. This should mean a far more wide- • Record audio comment tool comes around? spread use of PDF-based document review and, over • Callout tool time, Adobe will no doubt hope that it moves more • Cloud tool Acrobat 7.0 - Our First Look Reader users towards buying a version of Acrobat • Drawing tools (arrow, rectangle, oval, line, pencil, that allows them to also send PDFs to colleagues and etc.) By Richard Crocker Planet PDF Director of Content clients for review. Welcome to our Acrobat 7.0 product tour. Over the Advertisement next few pages we’ll guide you through some of the key new features to come out of Adobe latest Acrobat family. Editor’s Note: For more info on Acrobat 7.0 visit our special Adobe Acrobat 7.0 feature. This is not meant to be a definitive list but more a broad ‘first look’ at some of the most interesting new things. Once you get your hands on a copy, be sure to do your own exploring -- you’re bound to find many cool new things not mentioned in these pages. Note: Unless otherwise noted, this article refers to Acrobat Adobe Reader with a PDF that has come from an Ac- 7.0 Professional (i.e. not Standard). While I can make edu- robat 7.0 user. Shown here are the Commenting and cated guesses at which features will be included in both, Drawing Markups toolbars and stamps. I’m yet to see a complete breakdown of the differences. the best of volume 2 Contents Adobe Acrobat 7.0 General Interest Government and Enterprise Developer Creative and Print | home | | 3/81 New markup tools Paper to PDF Two new markup tools tend to target technical profes- Acrobat 7.0 simplifies the process of converting paper sionals, but the Callout tool looks useful when add- into searchable PDFs, making it a one-step process. ing comments related to images and other non-text As part of this process, you can add tags for improved objects. accessibility for impaired users. There’s also a new range of compressing, cleaning and filtering tools that can be used during the process to improve the quality of the output. You can deskew (rotate the scan so it’s totally vertical) and filter the scan using tools like background, edge shadow re- The Callout Tool lets you create a text box which has moval, despeckle, descreen and halo removal. an arrow attached that can point to a specific part of a drawing or document. As you step through the Send for Review process tick the check box to enable the functionality for Ado- be Reader users in your review group.