Audience: Business Owners and Managers, Communicators, Web Developers, Designers, Event Planners, Marketing Pros

Creating Web forms using Adobe Acrobat 8:

• Getting started
• Getting to know the work area
• Working with objects and palettes
• Changing views
• Building a new form
• Adding text to a form
• Adding graphics to a form
• Grouping objects
• Adding content to the form body
• Creating a radio button
• Duplicating an object
• Adding and using Custom Library items
• Adding shapes
• Adding a drop-down list
• Creating a Submit button
• Previewing and exporting the form

Creating interactive PDFs with video and sound using Adobe Acrobat 8:

• Adding an interactive animation
• Adding a Show/Hide field
• Adding a movie clip and controlling it with buttons
• Adding, aligning, and duplicating navigational buttons
• Adding a sound file and adding two actions to one button
• Creating page actions to control multimedia clips
• Creating page actions to start multimedia clips
• Opening a movie clip in a floating window
• Creating a full screen presentation with transitions

The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session—gather your questions and join us on November 18.

Speaker: As CEO of Fig Leaf Software, Steve Drucker directs the strategic development of the company. He evaluates third-party commercial off-the-shelf software solutions for robustness and applicability to the Fig Leaf client base. His current areas of interest include search engine optimization, document management and office automation with Adobe Acrobat LiveCycle Designer, and development of "rich internet applications" using asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) and Adobe FLEX. Steve is a Certified Macromedia Master Instructor for Dreamweaver, Flash, ColdFusion, and Breeze. More recently, he became an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) for Acrobat and holds a Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+) credential. Steve has been a featured speaker at numerous industry trade shows, including Macromedia Devcon/MAX.

Steve Drucker co-authored a bestseller: The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, founded the first ColdFusion Users Group (CFUG), and developed training curricula for Macromedia and Paperthin, Inc. In addition, he has written numerous articles focusing on scalability and advanced Web development technologies for the ColdFusion Developer's Journal. His last major development project was serving as lead architect and developer for the relaunch of Voice of America (www.voanews.com), with 44 Web sites in 44 languages—supporting nearly half a million content items and the addition of hundreds each day.

Before founding Fig Leaf Software, Steve was a C and Microsoft Foxpro programmer, developing the first nationally distributed commercial real-estate listings database and the first windows-based client-server interface to the Virginia Multiple Listings Service (MLS). Steve Drucker holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.

Fig Leaf Software, founded in 1992, is a premier full-service Web design, development, and training company. Its Web design and development projects involve understanding business needs, gathering requirements, designing for usability, and applying the proper technology to solve client needs. Fig Leaf technical capabilities and experience include client- and server-side programming using a wide range of operating systems, Web servers, and database applications.  

Headquartered in Washington, DC, Fig Leaf has a second office in Atlanta and training centers nationwide. More than 20,000 professionals in Web design and application programming have benefitted from Fig Leaf training.

Fig Leaf has created Web sites, portals, intranets, extranets, and similar applications for hundreds of associations, nonprofits, government agencies, corporations, and educational institutions including AOL, CNN, Epilepsy Foundation, PBS, U.S. Senate, Voice of America, American Chemical Society, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, General Electric, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Verizon, Macy's, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Netscape, World Resources Institute, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, and Booz Allen Hamilton.

Steve Drucker may be reached via e-mail. 

Location: One-half block south of the Cineplex Odeon Uptown movie theatre on Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.

Metrorail--Cleveland Park Station on the Red Line (on Connecticut Avenue, just 1.5 blocks north of meeting site) 

Parking: Very small lot, off Macomb St., to left of library. 

Free and open to all 

Several times a year a smaller group (usually about 8 to 12) goes to Nanny O'Brien's (directly across the street from the library at 3319 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 202-686-9189, open 2 pm Saturday to 2 am Sunday) or another local establishment for continued conversation, networking, and refreshment following the meeting. (Participants pay for their own beverages and food.) 

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