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Author Message David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 500 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 01:07 pm:    I know we are not supposed to promote products on this forum....but what the heck. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Professional....get it. NOW! I don't know how I worked without this product! I convert Word specs and correspondence to PDF files and send them to contractor/consultants. The advantage of a PDF files is that any system can read it. (Acrobat Reader is free on the internet.) You don't have to have Word, WordPerfect, Excel, etc. I used to send files around but people complained that they don't have the latest version of so-and-so program. You can also redline a PDF file and send it back. I have scanned several drawings and had consultants send them back marked up. Another feature I like is being able to combine PDF documents into one document. That way a person does not have to open 23 files all made from different programs. They have one file to open and print. I'm sure there are more features that I am just begining to find. Chris Grimm, RLA, CDT, MAI, CSI Advanced Member Username: tsugaguy Post Number: 5 Registered: 06-2005 Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 01:20 pm:    Is that the new 7.0 version that does redlining? I haven't seen redlining in Acrobat yet, but haven't tried the new version either. Also do you and those you collaborate with need to have the pro version to use redlining feature? Doug Brinley AIA CSI CDT CCS Senior Member Username: dbrinley Post Number: 83 Registered: 12-2002 Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 01:29 pm:    We have 6.0 and it does collaborative markups, highlighting, and all sorts of stuff. We provide our clients PDFs of anything (including drawings) until they insist on Word documents. If you talk to the CAD people, they've been printing PDFs over the network and sending them to the print houses for at least two years. We plot from PDF files. Some of our consultants can only plot from PDFs. Fair warning - we insisted our subconsultants use Acrobat to review spec markups and they ignored us until the deadline became critical then negotiated for written markups on the basis they didn't have time to get the software running. Bozoheads. Julie Root Senior Member Username: julie_root Post Number: 14 Registered: 02-2004 Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 01:36 pm:    Yes. We love it too! And have experienced the Bozoheads. Also if you haven't, look into DWF Composer. It is Adobe for cad drawings. Same markup/comment note ability. My cad person just got me a markup board with a stylist. I have not tried the stylist yet, but I hear that it is a Project Architect's dream. Anonymous   Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 02:01 pm:    How difficult is it to encrypt the PDF files or issue the PDf files so that they can not be modified by the end user? Doug Brinley AIA CSI CDT CCS Senior Member Username: dbrinley Post Number: 84 Registered: 12-2002 Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 02:59 pm:    PDF files are by definition 'encrypted' to everyone except the creator. We decided to use PDFs because we were concerned we could be held responsible for edits that others make. The reviewing functions are different; these are additional information. The creator of a PDF can accept or reject reviews. Anonymous   Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 05:20 pm:    We have met the Bozoheads; and they are us. Margaret G. Chewning FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: presbspec Post Number: 62 Registered: 01-2003 Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 05:28 pm:    I was up on the adobe website looking at the products available. What is the major program difference between Professional and Standard? there is a $200 difference in cost, what are the bells and whistles available in Professional that you don't get on the Standard that would make the additional cost worth it? Doug Brinley AIA CSI CDT CCS Senior Member Username: dbrinley Post Number: 86 Registered: 12-2002 Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 05:38 pm:    http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/matrix.html You definately want Pro. Pro allows you to get review comments from any person who just has the free Reader version. Phil Kabza Senior Member Username: phil_kabza Post Number: 125 Registered: 12-2002 Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 09:41 pm:    We're starting to implement use of Acrobat Pro 7.0 and it looks like it could be our salvation. We're making our standard of review document delivery the bookmarked PDF that 7.0 will produce. Simply set up your project manual directory in sequence through file numbering: Word docs, Excel docs, and other PDFs, then hit the button. We're still figuring out how to get it to use section number + section name as the bookmark labels, so that clients aren't faced with 6-digit bookmark tags that they don't understand (nor we, till we become fluent in MF04ese.) The review comment and report functions work very well and save a lot of paper and time. John McGrann Senior Member Username: jmcgrann Post Number: 56 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 - 08:31 am:    Another vote for Adobe Pro. Works as advertised. Wayne Yancey Senior Member Username: wyancey Post Number: 49 Registered: 05-2005 Posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 - 12:10 pm:    "BOZOHEADS" Why, you mad mustachio purple-hued maltworm, you! Even the worst four-letters words are boring and predictable when used as an insult. Don't be a lazy linguist-brush up on your Shakespeare! "Thou damned tripe-visaged rascal." "How, now, wool-sack, what mutter you." "I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire." "You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe!" "Thou art a very ragged wart." "Viperous worm that gnaws at bowels!" "Pernicious bloodsucker of sleeping men!" "You are all recreants and dastards!" "A pox of wrinkles." "I could brain him with his lady's fan." Shakespeare's insults by Wayne F. Hill and Cynthia J. Ottchen (Crown) J. Peter Jordan Senior Member Username: jpjordan Post Number: 115 Registered: 05-2004 Posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 - 12:24 pm:    I prefer "beauxau". Dave Metzger Senior Member Username: davemetzger Post Number: 127 Registered: 07-2001 Posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 - 12:30 pm:    That's a good example of thinking outside the beauxau.... David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 502 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 - 01:44 pm:    "Brush up your Shakespeare Start quoting him now Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow" -Cole Porter