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
This week in PDF has seen the release of a new Acrobat plug-in designed to save PDF documents directly into document management systems, and update to a piece of document management software which allows users to create PDF archives and enhanced PDF/A functionality added to a PDF creation utility.
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.
Dan Shea
This week in PDF has seen a large number of developers adding PDF functionality to their software offerings.
Nettie Hartsock
AdultPDF has rolled out version PDF Stamp 3.0. PDF Stamp enables users to stamp content including images, texts, graphics into an existing PDF document.
Dan Shea
As Adobe rightly grabs headlines with its announcement of the Acrobat 8 family of products, this week in PDF sees the announcement of a series of workflow seminars, the association of a PDF/A resource and updates to both a PDF censorship tool and a network PDF printing solution.
Richard Crocker
If you haven't heard yet, Google has just announced that a bunch of the books it has been scanning for its Google Books Library Program are now available for free download as PDFs. There's no doubt Google needs to be applauded for the idea, but the execution (i.e. the books they've produced) could definitely do with some work. The PDF books are difficult to download, large in size, of such low resolution they're difficult to read, cannot be searched, and do not allow the user to copy text from them. It's left me wondering what Google expects people to do with the books.
Dan Shea
This week in PDF sees the release of a new PDF viewer program for smartphones, an update to absolutePDF's PDF generation library and Greiner Consulting Services' plug-in for linking external content resources.
