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.

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.

Legal Technology have published a review of Acrobat 9 that looks at the new features and enhancements from a lawyers perspective.

Streamingmedia.com have published a review of Adobe Acrobat 9 focusing on the tight integration of Flash, Portfolio and the new multimedia tools.

According to Ted Landau from Macworld.com, the latest release of the Mac OS, version 10.5.5 is said to introduce a scaling issue when printing to Adobe PDF 8.0 — where the output ends up being half its expected size — looks like someone should have concentrated a little more during their grade class multiplication-times-tables?!

Jonathan Bowman has provided some tips on his blog about some of the new enhancements specific to the PDF Maker button in AutoCAD.

My old work-buddy Kurt Foss, Online Editor of Adobe Acrobat User Community, wrote a short piece on a video I’ve been trying to track down for some time. 
The video is centered around a typical “office of the 90s ” and is included on page 24 as part of a Flash-presentation that celebrates “25 Years of Innovation” at Adobe Systems.
It takes us back 15 years ago to the land of ascii text, overnight mail, copier jams and filing cabinets laden with paper-based-documents. Although Kurt says that “Acrobat humor is a narrow niche”, …

Don’t frett if you didn’t see our note about the eSeminar on PDF and Flash in time to watch it live — the eSeminar is now available for on-demand viewing. The free one hour seminar covers:

Incorporating Flash Player-compatible content to make rich, engaging PDF documents
Adding Flash Player-compatible video to PDF documents, including FLV and H.264-encoded video
Converting other video formats to embedded Flash-compatible video in Acrobat 9
Adding video to Microsoft Office documents
Differences between Acrobat 9 Pro and Pro Extended for Flash content in PDF files

I definitely recommend checking it out. Much …

Back in November 2006, Thad McIlroy, publishing consultant and analyst from The Future of Publishing sent a scathing letter to the Planet PDF Editor, Dan Shea:
I think that Acrobat 8 is one of the weakest upgrades I’ve seen in years. Adobe is apparently angry with me for saying so, but that’s just Adobe getting all imperial, as it does (as do so may so may other U.S. organizations, like the old Republican administration).
However, with version 9 — Thad thinks that Adobe has provided a elegant upgrade:
Adobe Acrobat has evolved in so …

Do you like listening to podcasts? Do you like PDFs? Do you work with PDFs? If you answered yes to both questions, then I have got some good news for you: Acrobat Technical Evangelist, Joel Geraci, will soon be starting The PDF Developer Junkie Podcast.
The podcast will be audience driven and will rely on listeners to email in recorded questions about developing with PDF.
I will post a link to the podcast as soon as the first episode is live.

I just want to quickly spotlight two very useful posts today on text in PDFs, and OCR’d scanned images. 
The first is from Jonathan Bowman’s AEC & EPC Blog where he covers how to covert scanned images to PDF and then OCR them, using Adobe Acrobat:
The first step is to simply locate the scanned image and then convert it to pdf.  Now there are several ways to do this, such as File – Create PDF – From File, right click on document and choose convert to PDF, or just simple drag …

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.
Previously we’ve looked at PDF Hammer and now we’re going to look at PDFescape. I found PDFescape generally pretty easy to use and the list of features it includes are impressive for an online editor:

View PDFs online
Fill out PDF Forms
Add text and shapes
Move and delete pages
Insert links
Create new form fields
Share & collaborate
Store PDFs online

There are some limitations in place …

Ever encounter the problem where you’re reading, writing, and publishing more than one document at the same time?  
Rhetorical question!
You know the scenario — you’ve got multiple windows open — all stacked on top of each other, you’re alt-tabbing applications to the point of arth-thumb-ritis. Even with 2 x 21″ screens and your Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9770, you feel like you’re driving your Ferrari F430 Spider with the hand-break on.
Well, a quick and easy solution to this problem is to pick yourself up a copy of Desktop Rover™ v4.0. You will need multiple …

A cursory glance, or rather quick search at Google will reveal that the topic of redacting PDF has been hot for a looong time.
During my time at Planet PDF, we even ran a review of a US government employee’s efforts at redaction gone wrong in which a thought-to-be-redacted report revealed names, training procedures and other secrets.
Nope, this is not a new issue — there’s a swagger of “paid-for” software you can find (in addition to functionality included in Acrobat 8 and 9), using all types of methods — usefully listed …

The Acrobat 9 SDK has been released to the Acrobat Developer Community — as PDF Developer Junkie Joel Geraci says,
Now’s the chance to show off your Kung-Fu skills and contribute to the developer community
You’ll be able to provide feedback, bugs and corrections. Sign-up and check it out — although at a touch over 50mb, perhaps give it a miss if you’re still sporting a 56k modem.
As well as this, there’s an Acrobat 9 Custom Navigator SDK available too — at least in pre-release. This uses Flex and ActionScript and doesn’t …