Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen an update to a web content security product, along with the releases of a standard for including advertising material in PDF documents and a PDF developer library compatible with Windows Mobile.
Nettie Hartsock
As mentioned in Dan Shea's column from last week, Vitrium Systems has released protectedpdf Small Business Edition (SBE). Randa Codron, Marketing Manager for Vitrium said this release is the first DRM solution that does not require readers to download and install either a plug-in for Adobe Reader or a third-party proprietary viewer.
Dan Shea
Thanks to the new Acrobat Geospatial & Mapping Gallery, you can now download a geospatially aware PDF map of Obama's inaugural parade route. The Gallery is a user-contributed showcase of PDF maps, and this particular map has been credited to Scott Lee of TerraGo Technologies.
Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen the releases of an online PDF security solution for small businesses, a service pack for a range of PDF-based 3D products and an update to an Adobe product suite.
Dan Shea
Earlier this week, SYCODE released a set of 8 plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat. The plug-ins work with CAD files and are are designed, variously, to import them to or export them from Adobe Acrobat.
Nettie Hartsock
The folks at Recosoft are now officially shipping PDF2ID 2.0 for both Mac and Windows platforms.
Nettie Hartsock
PDFTron has announced the release of PDFtron's advanced PDF library, PDFNet SDK, for Windows Mobile.
Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen updates to a PDF optimization utility and a 3D plug-in for Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended, along with the launch of a native PDF reader for the BlackBerry platform. Also during the break, a popular Firefox extension has been extended further -- to work with Internet Explorer.
Nettie Hartsock
LockLizard has rolled out foreign language support to Safeguard Secure PDF Viewer.
Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen updates to a PDF 3D solution and an electronic document distribution tool.
Dan Shea
As of December 12, everyone's (OK, well, my) favorite web-based email client has officially added fast PDF viewing to its bag of tricks. This functionality is not entirely new, of course. As Google Software Engineer, Marc Miller's official blog post notes, the PDF viewer in question was already available as part of Google Docs. Nevertheless, its integration into Gmail was both a nifty addition and a natural evolution of the technology.
Nettie Hartsock
Adobe has acknowledged on its blog, "Security Matters", the encryption change that has most recently been noted by Russian security firm ElomSoft.
Nettie Hartsock
Security firm Finjan has released its "Web Security Trends Report Q4 2008" (N.B.: the report requires registration), findings from its Malicious Code Research Center, identifying and analyzing the latest trends in cybercrime.
Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen updates to an Acrobat alternative, an automated PDF output solution, and a PDF-based document generation and distribution product.
Nettie Hartsock
Japan-based Recosoft Corporation has announced PDF2ID 2.0 and PDF2ID Profesional 2.0 for both Mac and Windows platforms.
