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Life-Bytes in Paris Street
Notes on topics for meetings / training
Will Pollard
Wi-fi may not work as a paid service. There could be more discussion around Freespot. Available at the Southgate Hotel. As broadband gets cheaper the model of free wi-fi as an attraction for venues is more likely
http://www.wififreespot.com/hotels.html
Some income can come from printing. Printme is an online service from EFI that simplifies this. So far the UK bandwidth has not encouraged much use of this and there are few available sites. But looking at cities in California shows this can work. Hyperactive was once the base for an ‘Exeter Sneakernet’, creating PDF on disc for print output. This might revive, taking Printme as a model. The idea is for a workflow where the print customer creates the page content.
http://www.efi.com/products/printme/pm_success.fhtml
Getting back to Acrobat, the forms software is about to be demonstrated by government projects to show off Reader Extensions. The cost of the server software includes a way to enable the free Reader to have more functions. The Netherlands tax forms are starting to use this. In the UK defra have done some work but it is hard to find examples. Over the next six months there should be more to discuss about this, including how people close to Exeter find defra forms at the moment. There are also discussions in the Acrobat User Forum. The forms issues will be part of Seybold San Francisco. Macromedia talk about ‘user experience’ but this actually includes filling in forms.
http://www.acrobat-services.co.uk/auf
http://www.seybold365.com/sf2004/conference/
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/
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