PDFTiger.com announced new software called PDFTiger 1.0 for rapid conversion of MS Office documents and images to PDF and vice-versa. It is available to Windows-based users and priced at USD 29.95.

Advanced PDF Password Remover 5.0 is a tool to remove basic encryption from Adobe Acrobat PDF files including removing the password restrictions. The tool supports all version of Adobe Acrobat including version 9.x.

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.

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.

Lurene Grenier of Sourcefire’s Vulnerability Research Team has published an update for Adobe Reader 9 to provide defense against the recently reported Adobe Reader bug.

Worldlabel.com has released PDFplannerPRO Organizer, a free PDF document template planner, organizer and diary. PDFplannerPRO Organizer provides fully printable 8.5″ x 11″ PDF documents that you can use to keep your life on track.

Yet another contribution by Thom Parker, Acrobat plug-in master, and host of a website called pdfscripting.com. In today’s post, Thom looks to explain the relationship between Acrobat, PDF, and scripts.

A few days ago I tested Adobe Reader 9 on Windows 7 and didn’t discover any major issues. Adobe Reader worked correctly despite the fact that Windows 7 is not yet a supported platform. Today I thought I’d try the same with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro.

Installing software on an unsupported operating system isn’t usually a good idea. In fact, it is quite often fraught with risk, as a lot of people found in 2006 when they tried to install software on Windows Vista that was originally been built for Windows XP and hadn’t been updated yet. Luckily — so far — it seems like it is going to be a far smoother transition from Windows Vista to Windows 7.

I was about to write a post mocking Live Search for displaying a spam site as the number one search result for “acrobat 9 download”, until I did searches on Google and Yahoo for the same terms, at which point I decided to mock them all.

Adobe will be holding four hour-long Acrobat related eSeminars over the next few weeks for legal professionals. It’s free to attend (virtually of course), but those of you who register now will automatically go into the running for a Samsung T220HD 22″ HDTV Widescreen Monitor.

Peachpit has published a chapter from Donna Baker’s latest book, Acrobat 9 HowTo’s online. The free chapter deals with how to create PDF Portfolios in Acrobat 9.

ElcomSoft have long been a thorn in Adobe’s side. It all started way back in 2001 when Dmitry Sklyarov, an employee of Russian company ElcomSoft, was arrested in Las Vegas for distributing a product (Advanced eBook Processor) that Adobe alleged was designed to circumvent copyright protection measures in its eBook software.

Rick Borstein, from Acrobat for Legal Professionals, takes a look at how PDF portfolios can be used for Case Analysis in a three part series.

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended 3D. It is available for immediate download.