Possible alternative to Acrobat for Mac users

Learning how to manipulate PDFs is critical if you want to efficiently capture and process digital information. Acrobat is the most obvious tool for the job, but the story is a bit more complicated for Mac users. If you don't need all of its features, Acrobat Pro is somewhat pricey, and Acrobat Standard is unavailable for Mac systems. PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson makes a case for his preferred Mac-based Acrobat alternative.

EDITORIAL: The next "PDF-killer"

The release of the new Computable Document Format (CDF) has been reported by some as ringing the death-knell of PDF. In this article, Dan Shea talks about the strengths, obstacles and possibilities for the new "PDF-killer".

EDITORIAL: Control versus convenience with eBooks

There has been a lot said, printed, blogged and tweeted about eBooks over the years, both good and bad. Recently, the main focus of this discussion has been the issue of copyright, along with its close companions, document security and piracy. In this article, Dan Shea takes a trip down memory lane and outlines his position of cautious optimism about the future of eBooks.

Raising the bar

Frank Rem from TallComponents writes about his experiences with PDF forms. Specifically, he sought to include a QR barcode on a PDF form, and to have it dynamically updated with the value of another form field. This article chronicles his trial and error efforts to accomplish this task in Acrobat.

Bates-stamping over several sessions

Bates-stamping is important if you want to keep track of documents you produce. If you don't have all of the documents ready at the same time, you'll need to conduct several production runs. In this article, PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson discusses the related issues and suggests one way to accomplish Bates-stamping over multiple sessions.

Searching for PDFs on the web

Given the sheer amount of content on the web these days, it can be useful to filter results based on file format. In this PDF article, Dan Shea has a quick look at a recently released PDF-only search engine, explains how to find PDFs quickly using Google, and briefly compares the two.

Best Acrobat keyboard shortcuts -- a handy list

Acrobat is a powerful program with a lot of features. Unfortunately, this can mean that it can also take a little while to find the features that you want via the classic mouse-based approach. To help users get the most out of Acrobat, PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson has made a list of his favorite keyboard shortcuts -- downloadable as a PDF, of course.

Problem when printing PDF and page comes out grey?

After a question from one of his readers, PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson seeks to resolve what seems to be a common problem with printing PDF documents and having them improperly come out gray. He explores the issue in this article.

Critical updates to Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat released

Critical updates to Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat have been released to patch multiple vulnerabilities that were found in the applications in late 2011. Adobe has also included new JavaScript whitelisting capabilities in the new updates.

January 19, 2012

Freeware Benubird PDF 1.4.0.7 Released

Debenu has released version 1.4.0.7 of Benubird PDF, its popular personal document management system, optimized for use with PDF files.

January 18, 2012

Debenu updates ARTS PDF Workshop

Debenu has released an updated version of ARTS PDF Workshop which includes support for 64-bit versions of Microsoft Excel 2007 and 2010.

January 18, 2012

Enhanced pdf-Recover Server announced for Mac OS X

UNIVERSE Software announced an updated pdf-Recover Server for Mac OS X. The new version of pdf-Recover Server supports the use of hot folders, a user-specified directories or folders for monitoring and automatic decryption of PDF files.

January 16, 2012