The official patch for the recently announced security flaw in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader is still roughly a week away, but in the mean time, a number of third parties have taken this opportunity to promote their own products, which aren’t affected by the security flaw.

The Acrobat for Legal Processionals blog has posted a link to the video of their recent eSeminar which covered the very important topic of redaction and metadata removal

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.

Acrobat for Legal Professionals has published a video from an Acrobat plug-in developer which demonstrates how you can use the AutoInk plug-in and Acrobat to write directly on top of PDF documents.

Just over a year ago on November 29, 2007, Adobe launched Ads for Adobe PDF. The concept was simple, online commercial publishers would be able to use an opt-in service to enable contextual ads within Adobe Acrobat, beside PDF content. Ads for the service would be powered by Yahoo! and the program would begin in beta mode.

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.

In a recent series of blog posts, Didier Stevens has been demonstrating how to add digital signatures to a variety of file types. Last week he covered PDF: the tutorials is relatively straight-forward, simply going through the steps of how-to add a digital signature to a PDF, but for anyone who hasn’t done this before it could be quite useful.

Over the years Adobe have been known to put together a funny video or two regarding their technology. A recent one posted on YouTube takes a humorous look at one of the ways PDF can make everyone’s work life easier.

It’s an easy mistake to make: you create a Word document, write a green paper, convert it to PDF and then publish it on your company’s website. A customer then downloads the green paper and happens to have a look at the document’s properties. Oops!

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 added an Acrobat channel to Adobe TV. The channel includes tips and tricks from PDF experts at Adobe, as well customer stories — aka infomercials — from large companies that use Acrobat and PDF in their work-flows.

Rosebud PLM has had its patent for the “Method and Software for enabling N-way collaboration over the Network for Computers” approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The Rosebud tool is based around using Adobe Acrobat, and SaaS (Software as a Service). It allows you to present a PDF file, review it and edit it amongst multiple participants.

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