November 27, 2008 – 5:40 am
Last month Benubird Pro was mentioned in The Financial Review. It’s a paid subscription service so we can’t share the entire article with you, but here’s what the writer, Peter Moon, had to say about Benubird Pro specifically: Take document properties, for instance. A team that learns what they are and uses them carefully can turn [...]
October 26, 2008 – 7:13 am
You may have already noticed — but just in case you haven’t — Karl and I have been writing at a blog called Digital Documents for the past few months. It’s a blog with an electronic document theme that covers a whole range of relevant technologies and concepts from PDF, XML, XPS, Flash to eBooks, hardware, [...]
October 26, 2008 – 6:49 am
I recently came across a blog post from a person who was looking for a good personal document management system. Their requirements were pretty simple: File away scans or pdfs in an organized directory structure. Tag each scan or pdf with searchable metadata and comments. Archive everything off to a server or storage media easily. [...]
September 11, 2008 – 1:49 pm
The single most important thing to remember when using a personal document management system, is that you actually need to use it, for it to be effective. That means you need to set a few rules and stick to them — when a new file comes in, you need to add it to the document [...]
August 14, 2008 – 10:30 am
Over at Digital Documents I mentioned the importance of tagging and how it can really improve your workflow. I illustrated the method of doing this manually using Windows Explorer. You’ll be delighted to know that Benubird Pro has been designed specifically with the idea of accelerating tagging and adding of other properties over batches of [...]
I don’t own a fax machine, never have, and never will. But that doesn’t mean I can’t send and receive faxes. For the past few years we’ve been using a service called jConnect Premier to send and receive faxes via email. It’s pretty simple – you just have to type in a From and To [...]
For the past few years I have been asking my bank why I couldn’t receive bank statements electronically via email, instead of receiving paper statements through the post. The advantage of doing things the electronic way, were obvious to me, but apparently not to my bank. Then today, to my great surprise, I logged into [...]
Keeping on the “less-paper” theme — we’re constantly on the lookout for ways to keep paper as trees, and not churning out of printers. Which is why we were pleased to see that long-time PDF expert, Shlomo Perets of MicroType, has just posted a “How-To” article showing how to allow comments to be posted in [...]
By Karl De Abrew
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Posted in Tips & Tutorials
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Also tagged Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat, commenting, digital documents, digital signatures, less paper, page notes, paper, paperless, PDF, security
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A recent report by market intelligence company IDC revealed that 60% of responding Australian businesses produced more paper print-outs today than they had five years ago. This figure makes the eager projections of the early noughties look rather optimistic. The problem? According to the report, poor planning and implementation of electronic document management systems underpin [...]
We’re happy to announce that we now have a Technical Preview of Benubird available for download. Our goal is for Benubird to redefine a way of storing, managing and retrieving documents (and other types of files too) — regardless of wherever they’re stored within your system or network. Well, that’s our goal anyway. Give Benubird [...]
How to keep documents digital from day one…
Keeping on the “less-paper” theme — we’re constantly on the lookout for ways to keep paper as trees, and not churning out of printers. Which is why we were pleased to see that long-time PDF expert, Shlomo Perets of MicroType, has just posted a “How-To” article showing how to allow comments to be posted in [...]