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

[Albert Willis]

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.



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