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PDF News ArchiveOur news articles are archived in a series of categories for easy access. Select the category to the left to display only the articles related to that category. | |
Dan Shea
The International Standards Organization (ISO) published the PDF/A-2 standard in June. The latest version of the standard for long-term document archiving offers a range of extra functionality, including high performance JPEG2000 compression, support for transparency, and embedding of OpenType fonts. To help users get their heads around the new standard, the PDF/A Competence Center will be running a series of webinars.
Dan Shea
Gollancz, the science fiction and fantasy (SFF) imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, has announced the launch of what it claims will be the world's largest digital SFF collection. The SF Gateway will make thousands of out-of-print titles by prominent genre authors available as eBooks.
Rowan Hanna
Stellar Information Systems has launched Stellar Phoenix PDF Recovery, a tool for repairing corrupted PDF files. Stellar Phoenix PDF Recovery can be used to fix PDF documents via a simple user interface.
Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen updates to a pair of PDF 3D products, including one from the team who took over Adobe's 3D technology.
Karl De Abrew
feiPhone has announced the launch of PDF Printer, its new application for iPads for converting documents into PDF. PDF Printer allows users to convert documents into PDF format and share them from their iPads. The app is compatible with iOS 4.2 or later.
Rowan Hanna
After more than a decade selling PDF-related software online, PDF Store closes its virtual doors to make way for Debenu's increased focus on its own products. Rowan Hanna looks at a little history and explains what existing customers can expect.
Rowan Hanna
Retina-X Studios, a developer of mobile applications, has announced the launch of MyDoc2PDFConverter, its PDF converter for iOS devices. The new software allows users to convert documents, images, contacts and web pages into PDFs from within the application interface.
iPubsoft has announced the release of PDF DRM Removal for Windows, a tool for the removal of Digital Rights Management from PDF files. The new product is designed to allow eBook users to quickly remove DRM constraints from PDF eBooks and view these on iPad, Sony Reader or any other devices.
Karl De Abrew
Zevrix Solutions has announced the new version 1.4 of PDF Checkpoint, its PDF preflighting and conversion automation product. The latest edition of PDF Checkpoint has been made compatible with the new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
Rowan Hanna
YUYAO Mobile Software has announced the release of a significant update to PDF Reader Pro, its flagship PDF application. The new PDF Reader Pro supports RAR, CBR and CBZ file formats, and now supports FTP downloads.
Rowan Hanna
QuadriSpace has announced the release of Share3D PDF, its new entry-level software for the rapid production of three-dimensional (3D) PDF documents. Share3D PDF enables the fast, easy and reliable translation of 3D models from popular CAD software formats into 3D PDF.
Dan Shea
Ars Technica has just released its 27,000-word review of Mac OS X Lion -- available as a PDF, of course!
Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen Adobe acquire EchoSign for its digital signature technology -- and then be promptly sued the next day for patent infringement.
Karl De Abrew
Wondershare Software has announced new versions of PDF Editor Pro and PDF Converter Pro, its popular PDF editing and conversion utilities. The latest versions feature advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology for scanning paper-based documents into PDF. The new OCR technology can be used to recognize characters from 17 different languages.
Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen updates to a specialized PDF viewer for aeronautical charts, a digital signature application, and a .NET component for the creation and manipulation of PDF documents.
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