Planet PDF News

This week in PDF: PitStop Connect released

Dan Shea — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen the launch of a tool for simplifying PDF preflight and a website that both explains and promotes the benefits of searchable PDF documents.

Ubiquitous PDF: 2009 IRS income tax forms available for download

Dan Shea — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

With less than a month to go until Americans will be scrambling to file their 2009 tax paperwork. Luckily, printable PDF versions of forms such as the 1040 can be downloaded for free from the IRS website.

Adobe Reader currently the most exploited app

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Security firm F-Secure has identified Adobe's Reader application as the top app targeted for exploitation on its security blog.

Quick PDF Library updated, free version released

Dan Shea — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Debenu has updated its PDF developer library and released a free "Lite" version of same.

Adobe downplays latest vulnerabilities

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Adobe continues to be dogged by the vulnerability of some of its leading programs, including its own Download Manager program that was recently cited by Israeli security researcher Aviv Raff, as a serious security issue.

Cool Tool: PDF to ePub Converter 2.0

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ePub Converter 2.0 is a PDF file conversion program for converting PDF, HTML, XML, TEXT, GIF, and JPEG files into ePub file format.

PDFTron releases PDF2XPS

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

PDFTron Systems has announced the release of PDF2XPS, for conversion from PDF to XPS format.

This week in PDF: 3-Heights PDF tools updated

Dan Shea — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen an update to a developer product family and PDF functionality added to a digital signature solution.

Nitro PDF Professional OCR released

Dan Shea — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Nitro PDF Software has launched a new edition of its Acrobat alternative, Nitro PDF Professional. Nitro PDF Professional OCR adds optical character recognition functionality to the company's flagship product, allowing users to OCR PDF files.

Zevrix releases Checkpoint 1.2

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Zevrix Solutions has released Checkpoint 1.2, updating its PDF preflight and conversion software.

This week in PDF: PDF/A conversion software adds support for MS Office

Dan Shea — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen a PDF/A conversion tool add support for Microsoft Office documents. Meanwhile, a major update was made to a PDF indexing tool.

Cool Tool: PDFSearch .edu sites

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The developers at Filedigg offer a free Google Chrome extension tool. The program enables users to search PDF files and eBooks from .edu university websites.

Ubiquitous PDF: Out-of-print craft books available as PDFs

Dan Shea — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

PDF ebooks offer a convenient and inexpensive way for publishers to make out-of-print titles available to interested readers. In that vein, Martingdale & Company has recently now sells a range of out-of-print craft books as PDF-based ebooks.

This week in PDF: PDF-eXPLODE 3 released

Dan Shea — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen updates to a document distribution tool and a printing automation solution.

ICEsoft Technologies releases ICEpdf 4.0 open source PDF rendering

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This week ICEsoft Technologies announced the release of ICEpdf 4.0, its open source PDF rendering technology for Java.

This week in PDF: PDF form-filling solution now at App Store

Dan Shea — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen a PDF form-filling product added to Apple's App Store and an update to a PDF annotation utility that has been streamlined for use with tablet devices.

More PDF attacks surface after updated patch released

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Less than a week ago, Adobe and Google released updates to protect PDF documents from further exploits, but this week another attack has been cited by anti-malware firm F-Secure.

Appligent Document Solutions joins PDF/A Competence Center

Dan Shea — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Appligent Document Solutions (ADS) announced that the company has joined the PDF/A Competence Center, the industry group dedicated to promoting awareness and adoption of ISO 19005, the standard for archival PDF.

Image to OCR Converter updated

Dan Shea — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Soft Solutions has updated its optical character recognition (OCR) product. Image to OCR Converter can be used to recognise text in images such as scanned PDF documents.

PDF to ePub software wizard updated

Dan Shea — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

DNAML has announced several free upgrades to the newly-released "PDF to ePub" software wizard, its software for quickly converting PDF documents into the ePub eBook format.

Qoppa releases jPDFNotes 4.1

Dan Shea — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Qoppa Software has released jPDFNotes 4.1, which adds a PDF reader, parser engine and includes a cloud annotation tool.

This week in PDF: PDF2Office Professional 5 released

Dan Shea — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen a Mac-based PDF-to-Office tool updated, while a former Adobe staffer joined Nitro PDF Software.

New year brings new PDF vulnerabilities

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

While the world was ringing in the New Year, hackers were creating new ways to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities in PDF documents according to Internet Storm researcher Bohan Zdrnja.

This week in PDF: Nitro PDF Software, Foxit Corporation update PDF creation utilities

Dan Shea — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF, this column will focus on a pair of PDF creation utilities that were released over the break by Nitro PDF Software and Foxit Corporation.

ReaddleDocs 2.0 released

Dan Shea — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Readdle has today announced the release of ReaddleDocs 2.0, file manager, document reader and attachment viewer for the iPhone. Along with its updated user interface, the new version offers more than 100 new features, including support for PDF text reflow and embedded links, along with an email browser that can access and save email attachments directly from the application.

Artifex files suit against Palm

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

San Rafael, CA.-based Artifex has launched a suit against Palm Inc., based on what it claims in the suit is Palm's unauthorized copying and distribution of one of Artifex's registered technologies.

Appligent Document Solutions and callas software announce strategic partnership

Dan Shea — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Appligent Document Solutions (ADS) and callas software have jointly announced a strategic partnership aimed at broadening awareness of both companies' products in their respective markets and distribution channels.

Ubiquitous PDF: Printable PDF 2010 calendars

Dan Shea — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

With the new year just around the next bend, you might be looking to update your calendars. Thanks to Vertex42.com, users can now download and print a free PDF calendar for 2010. The page lets visitors select from a variety of styles and offers both yearly and monthly calendars.

Free PDF accessibility talk by Duff Johnson

Dan Shea — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Making PDF documents accessible to users with visual or other impairments is an important -- and sometimes mandatory -- part of posting PDF content online. In his December 9 talk for Acrobatusers.com, PDF accessibility maven Duff Johnson will outline ways to build accessible PDF documents using the relevant features in Adobe Acrobat 9.

November PrimoPDF milestones

Dan Shea — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Nitro PDF Software, the company behind Acrobat alternative, Nitro PDF Professional, has announced PrimoPDF's ascent to the top of CNET's "PDF Software" category, having amassed more than 15 million downloads so far on Download.com. The announcement follows the recent launch of a new website and the releases of updated Enterprise and API versions of PrimoPDF.