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Acrobat Plugs In To FedEx Kinkos; Users Get Long Awaited New Features And 3D Interaction

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Adobe Systems has announced “a major upgrade” to its Adobe Acrobat product line. Perhaps the most exciting is Acrobat 3D, software that enables CAD, CAM, and CAE application users to convert virtually any CAD file to a highly compressed, more secure Adobe PDF file for ...

Filed under: Portable Document Format

Ready, AIIM, Fire: Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardization

Monday, January 29, 2007

Adobe Systems announced January 29, 2007 that it “it intends to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for ...

Filed under: Portable Document Format

Acrobat User Newsletter: An Online Resource For PDF Users

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

If your job involves the creation or consumption of files of Portable Document Format (PDF) type, then you might find the Adobe Acrobat User Community’s free monthly newsletter a useful addition to your electronic library.

In the January 2007 issue you’ll find ...

Filed under: Portable Document Format

Adobe Acrobat 8 SDK Download Now Available; Support For Mars and Barcodes Included

Monday, December 18, 2006

Adobe has announced the release of the Acrobat 8 Solutions Development Kit (SDK), a free, download that includes new features and enhancements such as Single Document Interface (SDI), Visual Studio 2005 and Unicode file system support for Windows, Xcode 2.3 support for ...

Filed under: Portable Document Format

Adobe Fixes Reader Security Flaw; Warns of New Concerns

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Adobe Systems has repaired a flaw in its popular Reader application but warns users its Download Manager allows attackers to hijack a computer (even a Mac!) by exploiting a bug in the utility program. Get the official word from Adobe.

Filed under: Portable Document Format

Open Microsoft Document Format To Become A Standard?

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

According to the sharp folks at IT Business Edge, Microsoft has “renewed its plans to submit its XML-based document format — broadly seen as a threat to Adobe’s popular PDF file type — to an open standards body for review.”

What does this mean for those who use ...

Filed under: Portable Document Format : Technical Writing

Create Adobe PDFs Online

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

There are times when making a PDF file seems a bit like jumping through a series of flaming hoops. When you are using a computer at a hotel, conference center, or other public access site, or for those times when your computer—for whatver reasons—will not allow you to ...

Filed under: Portable Document Format