Adobe® Intelligent Document

Platform

Acrobat, LiveCycle, & PDF

Lori DeFurio
Developer Evangelist, Adobe PDF
ldefurio@adobe.com

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 Adobe® Intelligent Document Platform
Enables organizations to automate and accelerate the flow of business-
critical information among employees, customers, suppliers, and
constituents

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 Adobe® Intelligent Document Platform
ƒ Adobe PDF is 12 years old
ƒ Public Specification
ƒ Adobe Acrobat & Adobe Reader
ƒ Adobe’s product line build on PDF specification

PDF Acrobat
1.6 7.x
1.5 6.x
1.4 5.x
1.3 4.x
1.2 3.x
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 The Acrobat Ecosystem
ƒ Adobe Acrobat
ƒ 1,800 partnerships offer solution
add-ons, plug-ins, consulting,
training, and support
ƒ Key partners: Documentum,
Bentley, IBM, Agile, OpenText, EDS
(PTC)
ƒ More than 16.5 million copies sold
ƒ Adobe Reader
ƒ Half a billion copies distributed
ƒ Bundled with most PDAs
ƒ Distributed by all top PC
manufacturers
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 Open Standards Leadership
ƒ PDF/E: Proposed ISO standard addressing
the need for reliable exchange of
engineering documentation to minimize the
cost of distribution and manage change
throughout the lifecycle.

ƒ PDF/A: Proposed ISO standard that specifies

the use of PDF for the long-term
preservation of electronic documents. The
final ISO standard is expected in March
2005.
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 Recap: Last Year
ƒ Acrobat 6.0 shipping for 1 year
ƒ Adobe LiveCycle Platform introduced

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 Recap: Last Year Keynote
ƒ Really Cool Things you can do with Acrobat 6

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 Acrobat 7: Really Cool Things
ƒ Create PDFs from…
ƒ MS Outlook
ƒ Organize PDFs
ƒ Secure PDFs
ƒ Managing security via Policies
ƒ Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server
ƒ Secure PDF Delivery
ƒ Interactive PDFs
ƒ 3D Objects

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 Acrobat 7: Really Cool Things
ƒ Interactive PDFs
ƒ Dynamic Forms
ƒ 2D Barcoded Forms
ƒ Comment & Markup
ƒ Include Adobe Reader 7 users
ƒ Round-trip comments: Autodesk AutoCAD

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 Adobe Document Services

User-driven Workflow-driven
Workflows Processes

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 User-driven Workflows
ƒ Ad hoc Data Collection
ƒ Demonstration
ƒ Ad hoc Document Review
ƒ Demonstration

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 Adobe LiveCycle Designer
Interface to Document Services

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 What is that Designer product all
about?
ƒ Form design tool
ƒ Create Layout
ƒ Add Logic & Intelligence
ƒ Add Binding to XML, Web Services, OLEDB
ƒ Native file format: XML
ƒ Works for both designers & developers
ƒ UI is very ‘design’ centric
ƒ Scripting engine is powerful

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 This is a DESIGN tool
ƒ Master Pages
ƒ Template Library
ƒ Object Library
ƒ Can be on a server
ƒ Grids/Rulers/Guidelines

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 Adobe LiveCycle Brand

LiveCycle is suite of document services

based on the J2EE platform.

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 Adobe Document Services:
Extensible and Modular

Document Generation Collaboration Document Control Process Management

ƒ PDF creation from desktop, ƒ Document sharing and Security ƒ Online and offline form
or server, in batch or real- ƒ Review and markup ƒ Enterprise document processing
time ƒ Approvals control ƒ Local save of form data
ƒ Print formats ƒ Attachments ƒ Authenticity, integrity and ƒ Dynamic form filling
ƒ Output management confidentiality ƒ Form management
ƒ Capture ƒ Client/server signing and ƒ Workflow
ƒ Archiving verification ƒ Barcoded paper forms

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 Document Generation
View generated documents Adobe Reader

Native file to PDF creation Adobe Elements Server

Create, manipulate, and assemble PDFs Adobe Document Server

Data and template merge engine Adobe Central Output Server

Printing and print load balancing Adobe Output Manager

Archiving tool EASY Archive

Certify and encrypt documents Adobe LiveCycle Document Security

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Customer Use Case
Generating RFQ Packages

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 Adobe Document Services:
Extensible and Modular

Document Generation Collaboration Document Control Process Management

ƒ PDF creation from desktop, ƒ Document sharing and Security ƒ Online and offline form
or server, in batch or real- ƒ Review and markup ƒ Enterprise document processing
time ƒ Approvals control ƒ Local save of form data
ƒ Print formats ƒ Attachments ƒ Authenticity, integrity and ƒ Dynamic form filling
ƒ Output management confidentiality ƒ Form management
ƒ Capture ƒ Client/server signing and ƒ Workflow
ƒ Archiving verification ƒ Barcoded paper forms

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 Collaboration
View generated documents Adobe® Reader®

Users comment on document and forms Adobe LiveCycle™ Reader Extensions

Comment on documents and forms Adobe Acrobat®

Review routed documents Adobe Workflow Server

Document reviews from PLM systems

Connectors to PLM systems
Document reviews from IBM and
Documentum Connectors to ECM systems

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 Customer Use Case
Improving Constituent Self-Service

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 Adobe Document Services:
Extensible and Modular

Document Generation Collaboration Document Control Process Management

ƒ PDF creation from desktop, ƒ Document sharing and Security ƒ Online and offline form
or server, in batch or real- ƒ Review and markup ƒ Enterprise document processing
time ƒ Approvals control ƒ Local save of form data
ƒ Print formats ƒ Attachments ƒ Authenticity, integrity and ƒ Dynamic form filling
ƒ Output management confidentiality ƒ Form management
ƒ Capture ƒ Client/server signing and ƒ Workflow
ƒ Archiving verification ƒ Barcoded paper forms

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 Document Control and Security
Certify and encrypt documents Adobe® LiveCycle™
Document Security
Manage document control policies Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server

End users digitally sign and encrypt

Adobe Reader®
documents and forms
Design templates Adobe LiveCycle Designer

Generate dynamic forms and extract data Adobe LiveCycle Forms

Generate dynamic documents to be certified Adobe Document Server

Enable digital signatures in Adobe Reader Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions

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 Document Control and Security
Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server Workflow

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 Adobe Document Services:
Extensible and Modular

Document Generation Collaboration Document Control Process Management

ƒ PDF creation from desktop, ƒ Document sharing and Security ƒ Online and offline form
or server, in batch or real- ƒ Review and markup ƒ Enterprise document processing
time ƒ Approvals control ƒ Local save of form data
ƒ Print formats ƒ Attachments ƒ Authenticity, integrity and ƒ Dynamic form filling
ƒ Output management confidentiality ƒ Form management
ƒ Capture ƒ Client/server signing and ƒ Workflow
ƒ Archiving verification ƒ Barcoded paper forms

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 Process Management
End users complete forms and submit Adobe® Reader®

Design templates Adobe LiveCycle™ Designer

Add rights to PDF forms Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions

Publish forms to central repository Adobe LiveCycle Form Manager

Generate dynamic forms and extract data Adobe LiveCycle Forms

Extract data from paper forms Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms

Manage workflow Adobe Workflow Server

Certify and validate on server Adobe LiveCycle Document Security

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 Customer Use Case
Streamlining Application Processing

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