Nettie Hartsock
PDFs are indeed "under attack," as today Adobe noted a new security vulnerability and researchers also discovered the Foxit PDF Viewer is open to attack as well.
Nettie Hartsock
Last week Adobe announced another flaw in its Adobe PDF Reader program that enables hackers to take over a computer. The flaw was also described at the Advert Labs blog.
Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen the release of an Adobe-Yahoo joint project to deliver ads in PDF documents, the passing of an ISO ballot for PDF 1.7 and an update to a PDF creation tool.
Dan Shea
ElcomSoft Co.Ltd. has released a new version of its password recovery software. The enterprise edition of Advanced PDF Password Recovery 4.0 allows users to remove both password encryption and usage restrictions from Adobe Acrobat PDF files. APDFPR Enterprise supports all Adobe Acrobat versions (up to 8.0), including those that use AES encryption.
Adobe Systems has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.
Robert Milne
PDF Store has now released its annual Top Sellers list for 2004. Find out which PDF and Acrobat tools PDF Store customers just couldn't do without. See the full story at Planet PDF.
Kurt Foss
With the shortest Acrobat product cycle in company history, Adobe
Systems today announced the forthcoming release of its Acrobat 7
lineup of Portable Document Format (PDF)-oriented products. They are
slated to begin shipping by the end of 2004, according to the
company; Acrobat 6 shipped in mid-2003. Acrobat has more typically
been on an 18-month product cycle. Planet PDF is developing a range
of articles to showcase the next version of Acrobat and the free
Adobe Reader, including a variety of new and enhanced features. Check
back soon for further details.
Richard Crocker
We're very pleased to launch our all-new Web site. The beta version performed well over the past week and we thank everyone for their feedback. We'll be making use of it soon to improve the site further.
Dan Shea
AdLib eDocument Solutions has released the latest version of AdLib OCR, an add-on to its Automated Document Interchange (ADI) platform, AdLib eXpress.
Richard Crocker
Planet PDF has appointed three new contributing editors and the launch of its new professional learning centers. Planet PDF's Richard Crocker explains.
