According to LibraryJournal.com eBook provider ebrary is soon to release a portion of its platform to subscribers of its Academic Complete product.

Security firm Qualys report that Adobe Reader’s software should be a top priority for IT security managers.

PDFTron, producer of developer components for digital documents, has released XPSConvert, a cross-platform command-line program for converting XPS files to PDF and raster image files.

TMCnet.COM report that SLG Mobile have announced the beta release of the BeamReader PDF viewer for the Android platform.

NiXPS say yes in their latest blog post. But it’s not the concept of PDF Portfolio’s that troubles them per se, but rather the fact that in certain bleeding-edge PDFs, Adobe include a warning message that tells you to download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader if you want to view the PDF in question. No ifs, buts or maybes — if you want to view this PDF, then you’ll need to use Adobe’s software.

Nitro PDF Software, builders of Nitro PDF — the alternative to Adobe Acrobat, have announced PDF support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Also Nitro has included desktop PDF to Excel functionality in version 6.01

One of the power-sellers of paperbacks, Barnes and Noble have announced the release of a dual-screen e-book reader called the Nook. Based on Google’s Android operating system, it’s due for release sometime in November…

According to the CEO of Cogniview, Yoav Eze, PDF2XL will be Windows 7 compatible at the time of launch, on October 22nd.

Adlib have released a set of PDF services which extend Microsoft SharePoint’s functionality — specifically they target the provision of “out-of-the-box” PDF integration. With PDF for SharePoint, Adlib says that you can: convert to PDF, perform OCR, and merge documents…

Early last week – Adobe rolled out a substantial path which covered just under 30 security issues. These vulnerabilities were said by ChannelWeb to leave susceptible to attacks by infected PDF-apps.