Articles Archive for October 2008
Editorials, Featured »
If you’re a road-warrior, jet-setting about town, and you often leave your PDF creator at home — never fear, Adobe have a service called “Create Adobe PDF Online” you can use, as they say, to “Convert Documents Over the Web”.
Suitable for use on the desktop and at an Internet Cafe — for $9.99 USD per month (or $99 for 12), you can create as many “Adobe PDF files” (as Adobe now officially brand their own variant) as you like, including tagged PDF.
This is one of the features that you won’t find in many other online converters such as…
Free, PDF Online »
A number of online PDF editors are starting to emerge, and I believe it’s a trend that’s only going to continue, perhaps culminating in Adobe releasing a truly online version of Acrobat.
Free, PDF Online »
There’s a few online services that offer free PDF creation, but there are barely any that offer free online PDF editing, like PDFHammer does.
Free, PDF Creation, PDF Tools »
General News, PDF Creation »
ReaSoft Development has announced the release of ReaSoft PDF Printer Lite 3.8, it’s PDF printer driver for Windows.
Tips and Tutorials »
In this tutorial we are going to use CUPS-PDF to add print to PDF functionality in Xandros on the Eee PC.
Editorials, Tips and Tutorials »
It’s easy enough to create PDFs on a Windows or Mac machine, but what about Linux?
PDF Online, PDF Search »
While it’s possible to search for PDFs only using Google, perhaps you are looking for something a little more targeted.
Acrobat 9, Adobe Acrobat »
Shredding The Document, a blog by Acrobat Product Managers, shares some links to examples of PDF Portfolios in use on the Forbes and Washington Post websites.
Uncategorized »
I wrote yesterday how I think that it is inevitable that electronic readers will ultimately replace paper textbooks in classrooms. Well today there is good news from Italy where a group of more than 60 children – aged between eight and 10 – will take part in an experiment which will see them use only computers for an entire year.
The experiment aims to test how computers can improve the leaning process.
Read the full story here: Italy pupils ditch books for PCs
Acrobat 9, Adobe Acrobat »
Acrobat for Life Sciences, a blog that covers the use of Acrobat for those involved in the pharmaceutical, research and medical device markets, has published some tips on how to re-embed fonts in a PDF using Adobe Acrobat 9.
PDF Reader »
The iPhone might be the talk of the town at the moment, but the BlackBerry is still in a commanding position. The recent announcement of BeamReader, a native PDF reader for the BlackBerry, has got me wondering.
Free, PDF Creation »
There are a lot of great Firefox Add-ons out there that let you convert web pages to PDF for free.
General News, PDF Metadata »
callas Software, specialists in software for analysis and processing of PDF files, have announced that new metadata capabilities will be included in the next version of its pdfToolbox product — to be released later this month.
Adobe Acrobat »
Acrobat Lounge is a site run by the Adobe Acrobat Business Development Team with a focus on tips, tricks and techniques for using Adobe Acrobat and PDF.
