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Kurt Foss
Apple's iTunes Music Store addresses one of the shortcomings of downloaded music by offering a PDF-based booklet containing liner notes (and more) with U2's recently released 446-song "digital boxset" collection.
Kurt Foss
With the anticipated release of the English-language versions of Adobe's Acrobat 7.0 family of products due by year's end, numerous publishers, authors and bookstores are following close behind with a new array of educational books designed to help new and experienced users learn the respective capabilities of Acrobat 7.0 Professional and/or Standard -- and at least one book focusing on the version 7.0 Adobe Reader.
Kurt Foss
Artwork Systems, parent company of Enfocus Software,
has announced that Enfocus CEO David van Driessche has
resigned his position, part of an ongoing integration and
increased collaboration between the companies.
Amazon.com is currently accepting pre-orders for full
versions of and upgrades to the Acrobat 7 product family,
noting that the product will be released on December 29.
Kurt Foss
A liberal editorial cartoonist singled out the Portable
Document Format (PDF) and the free Adobe Reader in a recent
comic strip that referenced newspaper coverage of a recent
government report suggesting the U.S. has failed to
adequately explain its policies to the Muslim world.
ARTS PDF recently announced the release of Stratify, a
plug-in for creating, inserting, editing and controlling PDF
layers in Acrobat.
Kurt Foss
On the eve of Adobe's announcement of Acrobat 7, Planet
PDF talked with Pam Deziel, Director of Marketing for Acrobat
on the desktop, about a few of the new
and enhanced features in the product family and about her
history with the company -- and particularly her decade-old
involvement with PDF. Deziel was a member of the Acrobat team
from versions 1.0 to 3.0, then returned as plans were taking
shape for the just-announced version that is due to begin
shipping in late 2004.
In collaboration with GATF Press, we're hosting a
promotional contest to give away during the next month eight
copies of the "PDF Print Production Guide, Second Edition,"
by Joseph Marin and Julie Shaffer of GATF. The updated book
covers PDF and production workflow solutions, Acrobat 6, Mac
OS X, print-related PDF plug-ins, and an introduction to PDF
forms.
Browse the Table of Contents for the "PDF Print Production
Guide, Second Edition," by Joseph Marin and Julie Shaffer of
GATF, and download an excerpt from the recently updated book.
Kurt Foss
The Newseum -- an Interactive Museum of News -- features
an online exhibit titled "Today's Front Pages" that each day
features PDF versions of the respective 'Page 1' from more
than 300 newspapers from around the world. Headlines and
coverage of the outcome of the recent U.S. presidential
election will be available on the site November 4, following
the delayed vote count and subsequent concession.
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