PDF Portfolios - A few Good Questions...

Lori Defurio (Acrobat's Product Manager)
http://blogs.adobe.com/loridefurio/about.html
has created a great PDF (acrobat9features.pdf) that shows what
Acrobat Portfolio can do. However, I don't know how she put an
animation in the Welcome Header. Also, is there and easier way to
get that Carousel (as oppossed to Revolve) to work. I saw a video
on https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/a9asp3/ and it looks
like there is lots of coding Custom PDF Portfolio Navigator. For
instance is anyone sharing/selling this Carosel? Its cool and I
want it but won't be able to excecute the code/script heavy (for
me) process on the video

Hi dansch37,
Thanks for your post. However, this Forum is meant to discuss
issues related to acrobat.com and not acrobat. To post an issue
related to acrobat please visit the acrobat forum :
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bbeda8b/

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    Subject: Accessibility and Pdf Portfolios
        Re: Accessibility and Pdf Portfolios
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