February Meeting Recap

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:12:00 -0400

The February meeting of the Adobe User Group of Atlanta turned out great. I think that everyone found some really cool ideas on how they could use some of the features of Acrobat 9.

Quote of the evening: "15% of most corporate IT departments budgets goes to paper supplies." Holy crap. Can you imagine how many jobs could be saved in our crazy economy if corporations reduced their paper use (not to mention trees)? Adobe just released a white paper on Enterprise Sustainability (and Acrobat) that is an interesting read (and could be useful to some of our clients). You can find this white paper here.

Adobe's presenters Phil Lee and Ann Fracas would have continued to show the really cool PDF example files for hours if I had let them.They wanted to show as many of the new features possible (as well as some of the more useful yet overlooked older features of Acrobat).
We are scheduling a "Flash Inside PDF" meeting for the Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta later this year. It's really powerful to see a Acrobat form use Javascript to talk to a Flex-based charting application all inside a Acrobat 9 PDF file. I think this use of Acrobat combined with Flex/Flash is really cool and has a totally untapped potential.

There are two meetings at Roundbox Global next week:

Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 7PM
Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta
Kenny Bunch presenting Building Media and Video Apps
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
CHI Atlanta
CNN presenting Election 2008
($15 Charge for Non-members)
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And don't forget the InDesign User Group:

Monday, March 2, 2009
Atlanta InDesign User Group
InDesign and Flash - The Digital Transition
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Adobe User Group of Atlanta - Acrobat

February Meeting Recap