As I had posted earlier about my experiences at STC India Annual Conference 2010, I resume it with ‘Interactive PDF Designs Workshop’.

Among many sessions that I attended at STC India Conference 2010, one on tools was on ‘Designing Interactive PDF forms’. The speakers were Samartha V and Vikrant R, from Adobe India, and they organized a perfect session. Participants had laptops to design the PDF forms in real time, while following their instructions.

Vikrant started the session interestingly, asking us (the participants) what we expected from that session. I think it was a beautiful way to know audience expectations so that they could channelize their session, and they did it magnificently.

Samartha has got this topic published in the IEEE library, you can access it at: http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pcs/index.php?q=node/1879.

The detailed presentation version of that session is available at: http://www.slideshare.net/samarthavashishtha/make-the-most-of-pdf-forms.

I recall that two weeks before the conference, I needed to design a fairly long and interactive Certificate form in PDF, for BioCollections Worldwide Inc. (a business based in Miami). We struggled to put it right that time and while sitting in this STC session, I wondered how easily I could have done it. The ‘What’ and ‘How’ of session matched very well, a thoroughly enjoyable experience it was.