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[2 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]

Beijing Founder Apabi Technology, a China-based provider of Digital Publishing technologies, is taking on the might of Adobe PDF Reader with its new CEBX technology. CEBX stands for Common E-document Blending XML and is a unified layout document technology for e-books.

Adobe, General News, PDF JavaScript, PDF Tools »

[24 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]

PDFScripting.com, the most comprehensive resource site for Acrobat and PDF JavaScript, has just released a new video “PDF Stamps Gone Wild” to illustrate the power of PDF Stamps.

Adobe, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, General News, PDF Security »

[12 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]

Anti-virus software company Kaspersky Lab has just released a report regarding “Information Security Threats in the First Quarter of 2010″. According to this report, the premier target of virus creators and hackers has been primarily focused on a certain number of software companies including Adobe, Microsoft and Sun.

Adobe, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, General News, PDF Security »

[9 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]

Adobe has decided to postpone a fix for the latest vulnerability discovered in Adobe Reader and Acrobat until 29th June. Adobe had warned on this latest vulnerability on Friday, 4th June 2010 which could lead attackers to exploit the Flash Player and Adobe Reader.

Adobe, Adobe Reader, General News, PDF Creation, PDF Library »

[25 May 2010 | No Comment | ]

Tech Soft 3D announced that it has signed an agreement with Adobe Systems, Inc. to develop and distribute Adobe’s 3D SDK and associated technologies. Tech Soft 3D has been a key reseller of Adobe PDF Library SDK since 2005.

Adobe, Adobe Reader, Free, General News »

[21 May 2010 | No Comment | ]

Adobe announced the availability of Adobe Reader for accessing PDF files on Android devices. This announcement came from Steve Gottwals, Group Product Manager at Adobe, through his article on Adobe Reader Blog.

Adobe, General News, PDF Prepress »

[20 May 2010 | No Comment | ]

Adobe has launched Adobe PDF Print Engine 2.5, its next-generation full-featured printing software for publishing graphically rich PDFs. PDF Print Engine 2.5 uses the new exchange standard PDF/VT for Variable Data Print (VDP) production.

Acrobat 9, Adobe, Adobe Reader 9, General News, PDF Security »

[18 May 2010 | No Comment | ]

QuoVadis announced that its Digital certificates are now automatically trusted in Adobe Acrobat 9 and Adobe Reader 9 via the Adobe Approved Trust List (AATL).

Adobe, General News, PDF Prepress, Press Releases »

[26 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]

Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) was first introduced by Adobe in 2006 for the next generation of PDF print workflows and is now enhanced to support Xerox’s new colour 800/1000 presses. The new colour presses will help print service providers process more jobs through their shops faster and drive greater revenue with the availability of the Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE).

Adobe, General News, PDF Creation, Press Releases »

[16 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]

CCE announced the release of ODX/3DPDF software, a C++ based API to generate 3D PDFs from native CAD data without need of Adobe PDF software. ODX/3DPDF is a component of CCE’s flagship Open Data eXchange (ODX) libraries.

Adobe, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, General News, PDF Security »

[11 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]

Adobe announced that it will enable a new regular background service on 13th April to silently distribute and apply PDF updates to the worldwide installation of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. The new ‘silent’ service is aimed to keep the copies of its software fully-patched for more number of users.

Adobe, Adobe Reader, General News, PDF Security »

[8 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]

Adobe has provided a workaround to temporarily address the issue in its Reader and Acrobat software that could allow hackers to spread malicious software through an embedded content in the PDF document.

Acrobat 9, Adobe, Adobe Reader, Adobe Reader 9, Editorials, General News, PDF Security »

[6 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]

Jeremy Conway, product manager at NitroSecurity (no relation to Nitro PDF Software) has taken the weakness in PDF readers that Didier Stevens of Belgium discovered last week, and extended it to created a PDF worm that can freely wriggle its way around from PDF to PDF.

Adobe, Adobe Reader, Adobe Reader 9, Editorials, PDF Reader, PDF Standards, PDF/A »

[16 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Four Free PDF Readers Reviewed

Read on as Appligent’s CEO Duff Johnson takes the Adobe Reader “Bloatware Bloviation” to task … “For those who still insist that applications can be measured by the time required for download or size of the installation, tell me how long does it take to deal with a PDF that breaks your preferred “lightweight” viewer? Somehow, that metric never makes it into the lazy claims of ‘bloatware’.”

Adobe, General News, PDF Prepress »

[8 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]

Atlantic Zeiser announced its acquisition of a majority stake in SOFHA GmbH, a Berlin-based software solutions provider to OEMs of high-speed digital printing machines. SOFHA GmbH is also a co-development partner of Adobe and the acquisition will create new digital printing solutions based on Adobe’s PDF portfolio of standards.