[Macpartners] Fwd: Adobe Acrobat at MIT - This Thursday, August 21st

[Albert Willis]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Kevin McGrath <kevinmcg at adobe.com>
> Date: Tue Aug 19, 2003  9:09:29  PM US/Eastern
> To: education at adobe.com
> Subject: Adobe Acrobat at MIT - This Thursday, August 21st
>
> This Thursday, August 21, Adobe Systems (with the cooperation of MIT 
> Information Systems) is sending one of their Acrobat Product 
> Specialists, Tim Plumer, to MIT to share information on the new 
> Acrobat 6.0 release.
>
> Please feel free to attend either - or both - sessions.
>
>
>
> I.  Morning session
>
> 	Date:  Thursday, August 21
> 	Time:  10am - noon
> 	Location: 3-370
> 	Presentation:  Adobe Acrobat 6 in Education
>
> Adobe Acrobat 6.0 in Education
>
> Adobe Acrobat 6.0 is a powerful tool for education because of its 
> ability to
> PDF from just about anything. Since PDF is a portable, accessible, and
> reliable, it is a good choice for the exchange of electronic documents
> within a heterogeneous computing environment.
>
> However, that is only a small bit of the power of Acrobat. With Adobe
> Acrobat 6.0, you can shave hours and dollars off the process of 
> working with
> the documents you want to exchange. This presentation will cover those
> aspects of adobe Acrobat that can do just that. We'll see how to 
> effectively
> archive PDF files, scan document from paper and convert them to
> text-searchable PDF, review and comment with colleagues around campus 
> or
> around the globe, and add security to the mix to prevent your sensitive
> content from being usurped while en route.
>
> Tim Plumer is an Acrobat Product Specialist. He has been working with 
> Adobe
> Acrobat since it's early inception, and over the last ten years, has 
> helped
> many organizations take full advantage of this exciting technology. He 
> is
> now responsible for evangelizing the newest release, Adobe Acrobat 6.0
>
>
>
>
> II.  Afternoon session
>
> 	Date:  Thursday, August 21
> 	Time:  1:30 - 3:30 pm
> 	Location: 3-370
> 	Presentation:  Acrobat 6.0 Accessibility Features
>
> Acrobat 6.0 Accessibility Features
>
> Learn about features available in Acrobat 6.0 for checking and 
> authoring PDFs that are accessible to users with disabilities. Some of 
> the features include:
>
> *  Acrobat Accessibility Checker
> *  Create and optimize accessible PDF forms using the Tags palette
> *  Convert existing PDF documents to tagged PDF files
> *  Compression tools for tagged PDF documents.
> *  Creating secure PDFs that are still accessible to users of 
> assistive technologies.
>
> Who might benefit from this?  Anyone who authors PDFs for course 
> materials, public information, employee information and other 
> applications.   MIT is in the process of developing accessible 
> authoring guidelines for PDFs to comply with federal accessibility 
> laws.
>
>
>
> ---end
>