Yep 2 is a software from Ironic Software for managing PDF documents on Mac OS. Yep 2 also provides additional capabilities such as scanning and creating PDF documents.

Foxit Corporation, the vendor for electronic document solutions, announced its plans to offer a complete PDF publishing solution for providers of electronic content.

Remember the days when you were applying for a job, and at the end of your application you were asked to submit your CV. “No problem at all, I have it”, you thought. But, suddenly, you realized that they accept only PDF versions.

Zevrix Solutions, the vendor for automation and productivity solutions for Adobe Creative suite, announced its PDF Checkpoint 1.2 software which preflights, exports as images, splits and reduces size of multiple PDF files.

DataViz®, Inc., the most popular provider of solutions for mobile office compatibility, here today announced the availability of Documents To Go® Premium Edition version 2.0 for BlackBerry® smartphones.

The Blue Book of Building and Construction announced a new service aimed at providing enhancement in bid communication process for the construction professionals, Vu360.

Nitro PDF Professional, today announced the release of Version 5 of PrimoPDF, one of the world’s most popular free PDF creator used by millions worldwide.

Qipit, Inc. today unveiled its new iPhone application that turns any iPhone into a portable scanner for capturing white board notes from the boardroom, the classroom or anywhere. The result is a fully transformed ink-on-white digital copy (PDF or JPEG) which can be shared instantly via email from iPhone itself.

Riverdocs, a document conversion software provider and The Paciello Group (TPG), a company focused on the field of field of accesible interface design, made a partnership which will be providing the ability to take existing PDF documents and deliver structured, accesible HTML content in conformance with existing government guidelines.

Today a couple of PDFs landed on my desktop with an odd affliction that I have not previously encountered.

There is an interesting conversation going on over at Pogue’s Posts, an New York Times blog, discussing why PDFs are still primarily created in portrait orientation and not landscape. The instigator argues that because we are printing less and less PDFs to paper, that we shouldn’t be restricted by portrait mode and that more user manuals and such things should be printed in landscape orientation.

Within 5 years, PDF is expected to be in use as a long-term storage format by 93% of the organizations surveyed in the AIIM research report, Content Creation and Delivery – The On-Ramps and Off-Ramps of ECM.

Jon Bosak, famous for being the driving force behind the creation of the XML specification at the W3C, wrote an article last June that addressed the ongoing struggle between ODF (Open Document Format) and OOXML (Office Open XML) in their quest to become the new standard format for office productivity software.

Then head on over to Download.com and do a search for “pdf” and browse through the search results to see how many times each program has been downloaded.

AcroTeX PDF Blog is a new “blog” devoted to PDF topics. I used the quotation marks for the word blog because this is a different sort of blog.