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Whether you're a waiter who dreams of being an actor, a trekker on a lifelong pilgrimage to meet your Vulcan mentor or are an avid Flash or Flex developer, there's only one place to be next week: Adobe MAX 2010 in sunny Los Angeles, California.

I will be attending  Adobe MAX for the first time, this year. Needless to say, I'm very excited and grateful to my employer, 4Point, for sending me on their dime (I surely could never afford it). I've registered for the most interesting sessions I can though my sense is that I'll be missing more than I'll be taking in. Hopefully they'll be recording all of the sessions so that I can catch up on what I missed later. One thing I won't miss will be the MAX Awards, since  Leonard Nemoy (heard of him?) is presenting. The geeks will be swooning in ecstasy, no doubt.

To maximize the amount of information I can jam into my sleep-deprived brain, I intend to squeeze in as many 360Flex and FITC "Un-Conference" sessions as possible. Hopefully the rooms will be close enough together to skip quickly from one session to another so I can miss as little as possible.

Since I'll most likely be on my own most of the time, feel free to drop me a line so we can meet up. I'm getting there near noon on Sunday and will have most of the afternoon free. I'm flying back out on Thursday morning.

Hope to see you there! (Cross-posted at riagrande.com)

As documented in the PDFOpenParameter Guide, it is possible to influence the display of PDFs you are opening on the command-line or through a URL using parameters. I found this to be a very cool bit of info. By appending certain parameters using the "#" character, you can have a good amount of control over the display of the PDF document. No fancy programming required.

Scenario 1: Search Results

Let's say that you are providing full-text search functionality for a set of PDF documents (as we are for a current project using a LiveCycle ECM Connector). You can pass the search terms into the PDF reader upon opening the file, making the Reader run a full-text search within the document. It's very cool.

e.g. Searching for "PDF" and "document" in the above PDF using the "search" parameter gives this:

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf#search="PDF document"

Scenario 2: Hiding the tool-bar

It's self-explanatory: top toolbar begone!

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf#toolbar=0

There are many other parameters to try out, so get to it!