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Adobe Acrobat 9 + Windows 7: A Bad Combination?

Rowan Hanna — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:32:14 +0000

Late last year, I tried installing Adobe Acrobat 9 on the PC where I use Windows 7. I thought it was a good combination as I didn’t experience any troubles with the basic functionalities such viewing, printing, extracting and bookmarking PDFs. It turned out that a lot of others were not as lucky as I was.

I compiled the most common responses I received when I posted my experience in installing Adobe Acrobat 9 on a Windows 7 platform. Out of the comments I received, many reported that they had a good start with Adobe Acrobat 9 but with the installation only.

After installing Adobe Acrobat 9, the other users experienced a number of problematic situations within Acrobat itself such as closing instantly, not being able to print, freezing when scanning and so on.

Note: now, obviously the comments have been made by those who have encountered problems more likely than not, however, they are interesting nonetheless. Take some time and read through these Acrobat 9.0 and Windows 7 comments yourself…

Windows 7 is actually still in its test run phase for many users but it surely promises a lot as it is considered as the worthy successor of Windows XP. It is just depressing that Adobe may not be keeping up with all the functionality problems that users experience when combining it with Windows 7. A good support system or a dependable resource of information both for Windows 7 and Adobe Acrobat users should really be in place for everyone who may still want to make this combination works.

For any comments or reactions, feel free to post. If you want to post questions, try asking your questions at our PDF Question/Answer site at 4x PDF Help site.

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Security researcher argues for built-in PDF viewer in Windows

Karl De Abrew — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:13:17 +0000

Sean Sullivan, a security advisor for Finnish anti-virus vendor F-Secure, recently said that Microsoft should include a basic PDF viewer in Windows to help protect users from PDF attacks.

Sean took an example of Apple which provides Preview, its PDF viewer, included in Apple Mac OS for users to view and read PDFs. A basic built-in PDF reader will meet usual user needs for opening, and reading PDFs while avoiding any exploitation of advanced PDF functions such as JavaScript and support for Launching embedded content. Recently, there has been a huge rise in PDF attacks where the security has been compromised through malicious embedded content.

MS Office cannot open PDFs without the help of third-party software or add-ons. Also, the preview feature in Windows 7 and Windows Vista won’t display PDFs. However, Microsoft has promoted a substitute for PDF through an XPS viewer bundled with Windows 7 but this had little success.

Sean argued this case in late April through his post on F-Secure security blog which can be read at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001943.html.

The news appeared at http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176223/Windows_needs_a_built_in_PDF_viewer_argues_researcher in early May.

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Security researcher argues for built-in PDF viewer in Windows

AVS Image Converter now with Image-to-PDF conversion capability

Karl De Abrew — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:07:33 +0000

Online Media Technologies Ltd, a developer of software for digital video and multimedia processing, has announced a new version 1.2 of its AVS Image Converter software. The new version supports the conversion of images to PDF document. AVS Image Converter converts many commonly used image file formats into other popular formats and allows users to process their images for printing or inclusion in slide shows.

AVS Image Converter 1.2 runs on MS Windows and is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7. It supports multiple languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese.

Online Media Technologies offers AVS Image Converter 1.2 as part of AVS4YOU suite of tools which comprises 19 tools for multimedia editing and conversion. A yearly subscription of AVS4YOU costs USD 39 and unlimited subscription costs USD 59 only.

The press release can be read at http://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=55313

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Moyea PPT to PDF Converter 1.1 for Windows 7 and Vista 64-bit

Rowan Hanna — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:58:23 +0000

Moyea Software, a vendor for multimedia solutions, announced the availability of its PPT to PDF Converter 1.1 software for Windows 7 and Vista 64-bit.

Moyea Software has fixed the earlier bugs with the software to allow it to run on Windows 7 and Vista 64-bit, and added new conversion parameters to make it easier for users to convert MS Office documents to PDF. The software allows users to embed a new font, choose the right screen resolution and compress the slides.

PPT to PDF Converter 1.1 is available for Windows 7, XP, Vista, 2000 and NT. The software is priced at USD 29.95 per license.

The press release can be read at http://www.theopenpress.com/index.php?a=press&id=68948

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Moyea PPT to PDF Converter 1.1 for Windows 7 and Vista 64-bit

Drumlin Secure PDF Reader and Publisher for Windows 7

Karl De Abrew — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:42:46 +0000

In browsing Windows 7 Download we noted, yet another range of PDF reader-esque products, yet this collection with a difference — Drumlin Security’s Secure PDF Reader and Publisher for Windows 7 include “military-strength” encryption and a free Digital Rights Management (DRM) service.

Other key features of the software include:

Supports Windows 7 and Mac OS
Small footprint and fast display
Various page display options with zoom in/out, page sizing/re-sizing etc
Easy page navigation
Efficient text search
Printing options
Emailing functions
Supports multiple languages including English, French, German, Italian, Danish and few other languages

The software and services provided by Drumlin are available for publishers, academics, market research, professional organisations, finance houses, legal firms and government bodies.

The latest version of the software is Drumlin Secure PDR Reader/Publisher 4.104, and sounds like something worth taking a peek at. You can do so freely at http://www.windows7download.com/win7-drumlin-secure-pdf-reader-publisher/mptzcoed.html

Let us know how you go…. Shhh, but not too loudly as you might have someone on your tail!

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Drumlin Secure PDF Reader and Publisher for Windows 7

New version of 3-Heights PDF Tools released

Karl De Abrew — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:51:54 +0000

PDF Tools AG has released a newer Version 1.9 of its 3-Heights product family. The 3-Heights software tools are available as APIs, command line shell tools and Windows services for PDF processing including creating, viewing, printing, merging, splitting, conversion to/from PDF and PDF/A, analyzing, validating and optimizing.

The version 1.9 provides new features such as new OCR server, support for latest Microsoft Windows 7, consolidation of Professional and Standard editions, double precision calculations, support for Solaris version 2.8 and HP UX 11.23.

The press release can be read at http://www.pdf-tools.com/pdf/Corporate/News-02-2010.aspx

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New version of 3-Heights PDF Tools released

Feeding America selects Nuance PDF Converter

4x PDF Team Contributor 2 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:11:53 +0000

Nuance Communications, Inc., a provider of imaging solutions, announced that Feeding America, the America’s largest hunger-relief organisation, has selected Nuance PDF Converter Professional 6 as part of its desktop upgrade project. The deployment of this software will enable an efficient document workflow and collaboration within the organisation.

Feeding America is embarking on its Project Athena which is an organisation-wide initiative to upgrade the office technology including deployment of Windows 7 and MS SharePoint. Nuance PDF Converter Professional software will be integrated with MS Office, MS SharePoint and email.

Feeding America uses PDF to reduce costs on printing, fax and postal by distributing PDF documents via email instead of using paper. Also, the various food banks across the country do not require any source software to view the PDFs. Nuance PDF Converter will assist in converting the static electronic forms into fillable PDF forms which could be completed, saved and emailed by food banks.

The news release can be read at http://eon.businesswire.com/portal/site/eon/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100223005509&newsLang=en

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Feeding America selects Nuance PDF Converter

Nuance Communications introduces the Free Nuance PDF Reader

Rowan Hanna — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:25:33 +0000

Nuance Communications, Inc. a company providing solutions for speech and imaging, today announced the release of the free Nuance PDF Reader as an alternative to Adobe Reader. The application is smaller, secure and connects cloud-based PDF-to-Microsoft Office conversion services. It also offers PDF form save, annotations and features of Microsoft Sharepoint.

The application is just an 18 mb download and requires only 20% of the disk space compared to Adobe Reader. The reader provides unique interoperability with Microsoft Office, offering the ability of turning the viewed PDF files in reader into fully-formatted Microsoft Word, Excel and Office XML documents via cloud-based service hosted on their server at NuancePDF.com. There’s also a built-in SharePoint Connector allowing users to open and save PDF files directly into Microsoft SharePoint.

Michael Orasin, research manager with International Data Corp said “The Nuance PDF Reader provides a simple, but elegant, approach for converting PDFs to Microsoft Office documents, bringing cloud-based PDF conversion capabilities to the masses,”

The application supports all the operating system from Windows and can be downloaded at www.nuance.com/PDFReader in English, Italian, French, German and Spanish.

Source of Information [http://www.nuance.com/news/pressreleases/2010/20100218_pdfreader.asp]

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enTourage Systems join hands with DataViz to make enTourage eDGe compatible with Microsoft Office

Rowan Hanna — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:45:25 +0000

enTourage Systems, creator of world’s first dualbook, today partnered with DataViz, a provider of mobile office compatibility solutions, to empower enTourage eDGe with the ability of viewing, creating and editing Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and viewing Adobe PDF files through the “Documents To Go” software.

enTourage eDGE is a dualbook with features of e-reader, netbook, and player in one. The device will be showcased at 2010 International CES in Las Vegas from January 7-10. The Integration of Documents to Go software into eDGe will make it possible to review and edit work, school or personal files free.

CEO of enTourage Systems, Asghar Mostafa said “The DataViz Documents To Go software adds a significant value for professionals, students or other enTourage eDGe users that are on-the-move and need to view important Office documents”

The product is targeted for the e-reader device market and offers compatibility with both the ePub Files and PDF. One can pre-order it at company’s website at www.entourageedge.com priced at $490.

Jeff Fetchick, Business Development at DataViz said “In our continued effort to mobilize Microsoft Office across a wide variety of devices, Documents To Go and the enTourage eDGe are a great fit for the expanding e-book market,”.

Source of Information [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_20100108/ai_n45889828/]

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Foxit announces PDF software compatible with Windows 7

Rowan Hanna — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:52:47 +0000

Foxit Corporation today revealed their “Compatible with Windows 7” logo for Foxit Phantom and assured PDF users that a Windows 7 compatible solution for creating PDF documents will be available immediately. The latest release will be helpful for customers in extending their PDF based business processes by providing support for Windows 7 to their employees and partners.

Company’s CEO, Eugene Xiong said “Compatible with Windows 7, Foxit Phantom will provide users of our business ready PDF software enhanced functionality and significant value. For businesses that need to create and use professional PDF documents, Foxit Phantom provides PDF document creation from hundreds of file formats, direct content editing, electronic forms design, and enhanced document security.”

Foxit has been involved with Microsoft Corp. and delivered different PDF solutions within the Microsoft ecosystem which includes iFilter, Foxit PDF Security Suite, and the Foxit Reader. Foxit Phantom is the latest software to be fully functional in the Microsoft workspace.

To know more about the solution or download the 30-day trial version, visit www.foxitsoftware.com/phantom

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Apago Launches PDF Shrink 4.5 for Windows

Rowan Hanna — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:30:18 +0000

Apago Inc., a company providing solutions for transforming digital documents, announced the release of PDF Shrink 4.5 for Windows, bringing the Mac utility to Windows users. PDF Shrink is very handy for consumers and small business entities that need to produce PDF files at a quality and appropriate size for use with Smartphones, On the Web, Email attachments or even Onscreen reading. It has capability to reduce the size of any PDF file produced by Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, and other common software – by as much as 90% of the original size. The software is priced at $35 and can be bought online at www.apagostore.com

One of the compelling debates with PDF is the size which is aimed by this application. President of Apago Inc, Dwight Kelly said “PDF Shrink has been extremely well received on the Mac and we’ve had a demand for a Windows version for some time. We are pleased to respond to the need of many consumers and businesses by delivering an affordable, easy-to-use windows utility for reducing the size of PDF files”.

One can get the hold of new PDF Shrink 4.5 by visiting the online tutorials available at the company’s website.

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Nitro adds support for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and PDF to Excel

Karl De Abrew — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:31:40 +0000

Nitro PDF Software, builders of Nitro PDF — the alternative to Adobe Acrobat, have announced PDF support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Chris Dahl, CTO of Nitro PDF Software says that:

“..we’ll definitely be taking into account the specific requirements and benefits of Windows 7, and developing our software accordingly to fully leverage the platform.”

In addition — desktop-based PDF to Excel functionality was included in the most recent release, Nitro PDF Professional 6.01. The free online version of this is based around the same underlying engine — and it’s called, again, you guessed it — PDF to Excel…

Disclosure: I’m a shareholder in Nitro PDF Software …

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Microsoft Windows(R) 7 and Microsoft Windows Server(R) 2008 Compatibility announced by Nitro PDF Software

Karl De Abrew — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:39:04 +0000

Nitro PDF Software, announced that the latest release version 6.0.1 of Nitro PDF Professional and the impending release of Nitro PDF Express v2 are both compatible of Microsoft Windows® 7 and Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 R2.

CTO of Nitro PDF Software, Chris Dahl said “We’re excited to offer the option of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 compatibility to our users, Windows 7 represents a quantum leap forward — not only for our user-base, but the technology community as a whole. Looking to the future, we’ll definitely be taking into account the specific requirements and benefits of Windows 7, and developing our software accordingly to fully leverage the platform.”

This new Windows release provides customers a range of benefits which includes the support for multi-core processing, reliability features, improved security and tools for enhancing and accesing web-based data in addition to overall enhanced UI and experience.

Vice President of ISV and Solutions Partners for the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft, Ross Brown said “Our ISV community is alive with innovation, and we’re committed to helping our partners drive the next generation of software experiences,”. He also added “Adding compatibility for the latest Microsoft operating systems helps ISVs to stay ahead of the competition and give their customers access to cutting-edge technologies.”

To know more about the Latest Windows 7 Compatible Nitro PDF Professional release, visit the Company’s Website

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PDF will not open !

Karl De Abrew — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:10:50 +0000

How loudly have you screamed that (along with a few other things!) when you decided to leave it until the last minute to complete your IRS tax forms.

1. Can’t seem to get it from the web?

If you’re downloading from the web, turn off the display PDF in browser feature within Adobe Reader. Aside from being very slow, and often giving you the impression that something is amiss — you’ll find in Windows 7, (right now) you’ll have no luck at all.

2. Is it … PDF groun… PDF groundhog day?

Try clearing your browser’s cache — or even downloading the file on another computer — if you want to be sure. An errant duplicate file hiding away in your system can stop you getting the latest copy. Your PC will continue to serve up the half-baked one that was causing you problems in the first place.

3. Ooops, I guess I shouldn’t have gone with the cheap one…

Contact the person who has provided you with the file — maybe they slipped up in the PDF conversion process. Not all PDF converters are created equal — perhaps ask them to try another. You’ll find a whole lot of free creators out there – we’ve compiled a comprehensive list that we regularly update.

4. Say there, anyone seen my PDF file?

Check the file size — if it’s close to nothing (i.e. 1-2 kb), then chances are — you never got the whole thing in the first place. It was somehow lost on along the way… see if you can’t find it somewhere else.

5. Hmm, are you really a PDF file, or just glad to see me?

Take a look at the filename — maybe when it ran through your virus scanner or email security system, it had an extra few characters added on the end. If you want your PDF to open, it definitely has to have .PDF on the end. Try as hard as you like — you just won’t be able to open Britney’s latest .mp3 in Adobe Reader.

6. I don’t think anyone is going to mind me having a quick look.

Sometimes you’ll find that PDFs have been locked down with standard password security (the type that is built into Adobe Reader). For those — you need to write nicely back to the person who gave you the file and ask for the password …

7. This PDF will self-destruct in 10 minutes!

You’ll also find some forms of security that’d sit nicely on the set of Mission Impossible. That’s right, they literally become a useless pile of bytes after a given number of days (or hours!). Unless your name is Tom Cruise, you’d probably best giving those a miss.

Well for now — good luck to you, if you’ve got any other problems (with answers please!) post a comment and we’ll add them to the list…

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PDF will not open !

Adobe Reader + Windows 7 — Browser viewing still dead.

Karl De Abrew — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:18:37 +0000

UPDATE 13 March 2010: Looking to get answers to any more Windows 7, PDF and Adobe Reader issues? We’re getting a lot of discussion of Windows 7 versus Acrobat 9 at our 4x Help question and answer site on this issue.

I’ve just loaded up the latest release candidate of Windows 7 Ultimate (version 6, build 7100) — it was an upgrade on the previous (semi-dead-like-a-slug) 32-bit Vista installation. I’ve got 4GB of RAM, however, on the first 3GB will be usable until I load up my 64-bit version.

In starting my test with Adobe Reader, I downloaded the latest Adobe Reader (9.1 at the time, and 42mb download) for Windows Vista. I had already installed the app on Windows Vista, so this was a repair install — I had no problem with this completing, although, admittedly, as I mentioned, this was a repair not fresh.

That said, in our previous article Rowan said that he was able to do this from-scratch on a fresh Windows 7 machine.

…. here goes … nope … when viewing a PDF on a website – (I selected the IRS Publication 590 [fascinating reading!]) with Chrome (1.0.154.59, my browser stays blank or pops up an error, and with IE (8.0.7100.0), it tries to download to the desktop.

Still no problems using Foxit Reader.

Side note: Although it took a colossal amount of time to install, I was mighty pleased that with Windows 7 I was able to ressurect my Vista installation without having to do a total recovery. Let’s just say using my “only-option-wipe-the-disk” ASUS laptop disk, not only wipes the disk, but the next few days from my life as well.

What about you? Any change? No luck? Or perhaps some problems?

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Adobe Reader + Windows 7 — Browser viewing still dead.