Nettie Hartsock
Adobe this week announced the release of Adobe Reader 9.0 available for download on the company web site. The latest release includes an Acrobat software development kit free of charge.
Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen updates to an established document preparation engine, and a PDF forms application. Perhaps most significantly, though, PDF has now been accepted as an international standard format by the ISO.
Dan Shea
Nitro PDF Software today announced the release of a major update to its flagship Acrobat Alternative, Nitro PDF Professional. The new version adds tighter forms integration, including enhanced design control for more powerful forms. Deeper support for document actions and JavaScript enables designers to create more dynamic, intelligent forms for gathering information.
Nettie Hartsock
Utility Warrior has released Image to PDF Command Line Tool 4.0, its image to PDF conversion program.
Dan Shea
Nitro PDF Software has moved one step closer formally releasing PDF Download 2.0 for Firefox with the recent launch of a public beta. The new version boasts improved PDF to HTML functionality, a cleaner user interface and support for Firefox 2 or 3 and Flock 1.x browsers.
Nettie Hartsock
Adobe has released the patch for Adobe Reader and Acrobat for a particularly nasty vulnerability flaw. Adobe has shipped the update and users are encouraged to immediately install the patch.
Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen a pair of announcements relating to Acrobat 9 and the release of a new enterprise PDF search solution for Microsoft SharePoint.
Dan Shea
Nitro PDF Software has recently released a Japanese-language version of its popular free PDF creation utility, PrimoPDF. Partnering with localization firm XLsoft on the translation effort, the new Japanese version is already averaging several thousand downloads per day.
Nettie Hartsock
Vitrium Systems has updated its unique smart PDF web-based docmetrics system Docmetrics with updates in anticipation of the upcoming release of Adobe Reader 9 and Adobe Acrobat 9. Docmetrics transforms standard PDFs into "smart documents" that gather and glean marketing data for boosted lead generation and customer engagement.
Nettie Hartsock
Rhode Island-based Indigo Eight Software has announced the release of AjaxPDF 2.0, the latest update to its ASP.NET control for displaying PDF documents.
Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen Google add PDF functionality to its online document service and a pair of Adobe-related announcements, including an update to its LiveCycle enterprise solution and the inclusion of licensed preflight technology in Acrobat 9 Professional.
Dan Shea
Nitro PDF Software has announced this week that its popular PDF extension for Mozilla Firefox has just cemented its place in the top ten Firefox extensions of all time. With more than 8 million downloads as of May, the company expects to pass the number of downloads via Mozilla.org to exceed 11 million downloads by the end of 2008.
Dan Shea
Vocal Creative Commons evangelist Cory Doctorow has been in the news lately, celebrating both his novel's 4th consecutive list on the New York Times Bestseller List and the release of a new graphic novel based on his short stories.
Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen one company announce that it will exclusively distribute Adobe's software solution for print providers, while another updated its DWG-to-PDF conversion tool and a third vendor updated its PDF-related developer products.
Nettie Hartsock
Germany-based callas software showed off its latest and major updated release pdfToolbox 4.0 last week at Drupa 2008.
