In this episode we'll take a look a various ways of combining multiple files into a single PDF.

In this episode we'll check out the Improved Web Capture features of Acrobat 9 Professional. Capture Flash content and use it to search websites that don't have a search feature.

In this episode you'll learn how to create a form in Acrobat 9 Professional, distribute that form to your colleagues/customers via Acrobat.com and then collect the results to a spreadsheet or database of your choice.

In this episode we'll see how to take advantage of Acrobat.com, a free service that allows us to share files, host online meetings and collaborate with colleagues.

In this episode we will take another look at how to create Acrobat 9 Porfolios. From start to finish create a PDF Porfolio from scratch.

In this episode special guest Timothy Plumer, Jr. takes us through how to batch process OCRing several images at once.

In this episode special guest Timothy Plumer, Jr. takes you through the complete process of creating a form in Acrobat 9, distributing the form and collecting the data back.

In this episode, special guest Timothy Plumer, Jr. gives us a walk through on one of Acrobat 9's hottest new features: Flash based Porfolios.

In this episode learn how to insert Flash content directly into your PDFs. That's right, with Acrobat 9 you can now insert SWF and FLV files directly into PDFs for playback by your clients.

In this episode we take a look at the NEW Adobe BRIO service which is the code name for a new FREE version of Acrobat Connect. BRIO allows you to host your own web conferences with up to 3 people including screen sharing, chat, VoIP and webcam.

In this episode we'll take a look at how to get text and images out of PDFs. We're always talking about ways to create PDFs, well now it's time to go the other way. Let's extract some images and text to be repourposed in other apps.

In this episode we learn how to use one of Acrobat 8 Professional's new features which is called Shared Review. We learn how to do a shared cross platform PDF review and even host it on a WebDAV based .Mac iDisk.

Now you can turn those PDFs from Reader Spreads into Printer Spreads on the fly directly from Acrobat 8 Professional's print dialog box. This used to be a task that would have to be performed before making a PDF. Now Acrobat makes it a piece of cake.

We've created PDFs from various Adobe products and we've even created them from non-Adobe products. In this episode we'll not only see how to create a PDF from a flatbed scanner, but we'll also make the text searchable using Acrobat's OCR capabilities while maintaining 100% readability and accuracy.

When I think cropping I think Photoshop, however there have been plenty of times where I needed to crop a PDF. In this episode we'll take a look at the various ways to do it and some reasons why you would. The nice thing about cropping a PDF is that the information that is cropped off is never actually deleted.

We've seen how to digitally sign PDFs in Acrobat before. However, in this episode not only do I show you how to do it in Acrobat 8 Professional, but I also show you how to take your signature to the next level with your own picture. There will be no doubt that the signature is from you.

In this episode I will walk you through setting the most important preferences in Acrobat 8. While Acrobat has some pretty good default settings, you will definitely want to get in there and make the application more to your liking. I will also walk you through how to customize the UI by adding the tools you need and taking away the tools that you don't.

Acrobat 8 Professional introduces a pretty neat feature that will make you feel like you work for a top secret government agency (and maybe you already do). With the Redaction features you will be able to distribute PDFs as you always do, but now you'll be able to hide sensitive information such as birth dates and social security numbers. In this episode you learn how to put this feature to good.

Acrobat has had the ability to combine PDFs into one for some time now. In this episode you will see how to not only Combine PDF pages from various documents into one PDF, but you will also see how to Package multiple PDFs into a new kind of Package document PDF.

When Adobe acquired Macromedia we got a great technology called Breeze. Breeze has been rebranded Acrobat Connect and Acrobat Connect Professional. Acrobat Connect allows you to host online meetings with up to 15 people at a time 24 hours a day. The beauty of Acrobat Connect is that it's based on Flash technology which means that you can be assured that 98% of your meeting participants will be able to participate in your meetings without having to download anything first. Although it's called Acrobat Connect you can use this technology to share your screen/desktop and show any kind of application including PowerPoint presentations. Acrobat Connect is a hosted service and therefore there is a monthly fee. You can signup for a free trial account to try it out.

Preflighting PDFs in Acrobat Professionals keeps getting better with each version. In previous versions of Acrobat you could run PDFs against the Preflight tool and it would either pass or fail. If it failed you would then have to manually resolve the problems in the PDF or by generating a new PDF. In Acrobat 8 Professional you can now apply "Fix-ups" to correct the most common problems encountered in working with PDFs for print.

Adobe Acrobat 8 Introduces a brand new forms workflow that automatically detects form fields in your PDFs automatically. You can also send your PDFs to users of the free Adobe Reader and they will be able to not only fill out your form, but also submit the data back to you so that you can compile it in a spreadsheet or database. In this episode I will show you just how easy it is.

In this BONUS Episode we will take a look at the NEW Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional! Adobe also released a corresponding update to the Adobe Creative Suite Premium 2.3. This new version of Acrobat allows more collaboration and document sharing. This also includes the debut of Acrobat Connect!

Now that you know how easy it is to make PDFs from your Creative Suite products, we'll learn how to set them up so that they can be digitally signed. In this episode you'll see how to set up a PDF to accept a digital signature. You all also see how to create your own digital signature for signing and a strategy to work with your clients so that you know who is signing those documents?

We've taken a look at creating PDFs in several of these episodes. Now we'll learn how to secure them so that we can safely send out PDFs to clients for review and be assured that they can only access the content the way we want them to. Turn off things like printing and content extraction. Password protect your PDFs so that they can't even be opened without a password.