Discover the Power of PDF

Join us for these upcoming FREE seminars online. Our presenters, Angie Okamoto and Nicole Sell, Adobe Certified Acrobat Experts and Instructors, will provide attendees with an opportunity to discover the untapped potential of Adobe Acrobat & PDF. After registering for a webinar, you will receive an e-mail confirmation with information to connect to the online meeting.

Get to Know PDF
August 26, 9:00am-10:30am CST

PDF - Portable Document Files are used everywhere to enable businesses and individuals to communicate and collaborate. Join us for this free webinar and explore the world of PDF. Discover the benefits of PDF documents and features you did not know were available using the Free Acrobat Reader. This session will explore well-designed PDFs, the differences in the Adobe Acrobat Products and demonstrate how PDF acts as a virtual presentation binder, grouping content together in a method customized for your colleagues and clients. Please register today to join us for this free webinar.

Explore the Possibilities of PDF
August 27, 9:00am - 10:30am CST

We all use PDF documents in some way practically on a daily basis, but few of us know how much you can truly accomplish with PDF. Join us for this free webinar and explore the possibilities. With Adobe Acrobat Professional, it is very easy to turn your documents into fillable PDF forms. Businesses of all industries and sizes use some type of forms. Handwritten paper forms are time consuming, hard to read and costly. Learn how Adobe Acrobat and PDF can help bridge the gap between paper and electronic forms. Please register today to join us for this free webinar.

Webinars are sponsored by the Nebraska Acrobat User Group. Visit AcrobatUsers.com for more information about the Acrobat User Community.

Free PDF Central Conference

Grant funding has been secured to offer Nebraska companies to send 1-2 staff members to the PDF Central Conference in Minneapolis at no charge. Limited free passes are available. If you have any questions or would like to register please email Stacey Sell ASAP. Registrations will be processed in the order received. Space is available on a first come first serve basis. You will receive an email confirmation with the details once your registration has been processed. Additional funding is available to offer an unlimited number of attendees at 1/2 price. The regular price of the two-day conference is $995, with the funding the cost is only $497.50.

Visit the PDF Central Conference for more information.

FREE Microsoft Office 2007 courses

Attend the following courses for FREE!

• Microsoft Word 2007 - August 28
• Microsoft Excel 2007 - August 29

Grant funding has been secured to offer these courses at no charge. The classes run from 8:30am-4:30pm with an hour lunch break. These are hands-on sessions so space is very limited. To register please email Stacey Sell ASAP. Registrations will be processed in the order received. Space is available on a first come first serve basis. You will receive an email confirmation with the details once your registration has been processed.

Free PDF for Legal Professionals Workshop

Easel Solutions has secured grant funding and will be offering the Acrobat & PDF for Legal Professionals course at no charge to Nebraska law firm staff members. The class will be held at our Lincoln office on August 28 & 29 from 8:30am-4:30pm with an hour lunch break. Our instructor, Angie Okamoto, is an Adobe Certified Expert and Certified Instructor in Adobe Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer. This hands-on course will focus on features widely used in the legal profession as well as general functions and techniques used in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional:

Acrobat for Legal Professionals is a 2-day hands-on course in which you will explore the Acrobat work environment and practice creating and manipulating Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The course covers in detail, how to set up and track a review process and modify settings to produce high quality results. You will also learn how to add security to PDF documents such as restricting access and distribution of confidential information. Additional topics include the following: electronic filing, redaction, bates numbering, document searching, retrieval, archival and more.

Since this is a hands-on course limited space is available on a first come first serve basis. Please contact Stacey Sell as soon as possible if you or anyone within your company would like to attend so the space can be reserved.

Spotlight on Adobe Captivate

Are you in e-learning development, education, sales and marketing, or technical/help desk support? Are you responsible for training new employees or advancing the knowledge of your current workforce?

Engage your learners with Adobe Captivate. Adobe Captivate enables you to quickly create engaging software demonstrations, interactive simulations, and quality quizzes without any programming experience. Discover all that Adobe Captivate has to offer.

• Capture, record and produce software demonstrations and interactive simulations
• Create engaging training by using multimedia and instantly create an interactive Flash simulation
• Synchronize audio and video with ease
• Develop effective and complex skill assessments
• Design amazing online multimedia presentations
• Publish your project in different formats such as Word documents and SWF files
• Create informal presentations, such as podcasts and blogs

Give Adobe Captivate a try. Register today to receive a free trial version of Adobe Captivate, and check out the upcoming Adobe Captivate classes at Easel Solutions.

Upcoming Courses

Adobe Captivate: September 9 & 10, 2008
No prior programming knowledge? With Adobe Captivate 3, it’s no longer a problem. Captivate allows users to record and create software demonstrations and simulations in addition to editing and publishing projects. Automatically record onscreen actions and instantly create an interactive Flash simulation. You can now point, click and create captions, narration, and even e-learning simulations.

Microsoft Excel 2003 - Level 1: September 17, 2008
In this course, you will use Microsoft Office Excel 2003 to manage, edit, and print data.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007: September 18, 2008
In this course, students will create effective basic PowerPoint presentations for delivery in front of an audience.

Adobe Flash Rich Content Creation: September 30 & October 1, 2008
Zing! Zang! Zoom! Create interactive content, rich with video, graphics, and animation. Develop engaging interfaces that will WOW your coworkers,clients, and bosses. Maximize your creativity with full design control, as you work in the Flash environment to create interactive websites, digital masterpieces, and eye-catching presentations.

Flash ActionScript: October 22-24, 2008
Flash ActionScript provides experienced Flash designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to create dynamically generated event-driven animation and interactive games with Flash. The course teaches fundamental programming techniques. It begins by introducing core concepts including instance names, variables, functions, properties, and methods; then proceeds through conditions, loops, event handling, and animating with ActionScript.

Check out our website for the latest information on all of our courses including detailed course descriptions and Easel Solutions´ public course schedule.

Get the Edge: Tips and Tricks

Explore the features of the recent Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES update
Adding hyperlinks just got easier! With the recent update of Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES, you no longer have to add an invisible button over your text to create a link. You can now use a true insert hyperlink command to create URL and e-mail links, although you are not able to control the formatting of the link. The new update also includes hyphenation, an easier method to set tab order, and a palette with drag and drop capabilities. Be sure to check out the new typography controls for leaders, letter spacing, horizontal and vertical scale, and auto kerning. Learn more. Take an Authorized Adobe LiveCycle training class.

Do you produce Flash content?
If you produce Flash content, this tip is for you. Placing Flash content on an HTML page is easy to do with Flash CS3 or Dreamweaver CS3. However, the BEST way to add Flash content on a webpage is using SWFObject. By using SWFObject, a developer can add alternate content that is visible to search engine spiders but not visible to a person with the Flash Player. This way your content will help with search engine optimization and still WOW your audience. To try SWFObject, download the sample files from http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/. Learn more. Take an Authorized Adobe Flash CS3 training class.

Select and distribute guides in InDesign
Guides are objects, but they have a few special properties when it comes to selecting them. If guides are the only objects on a layer or document, hit Cmd/Ctrl-A to Select All the guides. Keep in mind that Select All will not select the guides when there are any other selectable objects (frames or rules) on the page or layer. Once you have selected the horizontal or vertical guides for a page, you can use the Align panel´s (Window > Object & Layout > Align) Distribute command to place the guides equally on a page. Learn more. Take an Authorized Adobe InDesign CS3 training class.