I’ve been in the PDF business for at least 12 years now — back in the early days when Acrobat had just one toolbar (wow, that was a while ago) — and when you had to pay for a PDF reader — $50 it was. Now of course, you can’t count the number of free tools and online services to convert to PDF, view PDF, and there’s definitely no chance of counting the number of PDF files in existence.
In fact, so ubiquitious now, it’s even an ISO standard (ISO …

I agree with the sentiments expressed in this PC World article Has Adobe Taken a Wrong Turn with Acrobat 9?.
Since the release of Acrobat 7 it seems like Adobe have run out of new PDF related ideas for Acrobat. Has it reached it’s peak point? Some of the non PDF related features they’ve introduced in Acrobat 8 and 9 would suggest that it has. There’s only really two paths let open to Adobe — 1) finish cannibalizing the feature ideas developed by the third party plug-in community and 2) use …

Here’s a bunch of the best links from various blogs covering the recent release of Acrobat 9:

Acrobat 9 Announced! New Features for the Legal Market.
Acrobat 9: A revolutionary release.
Acrobat 9 Knows Standards.
Reference XObjects, PDF/X-5 and Acrobat 9.
Preflight Audit Trails.
Acrobat 9 JavaScript Revealed.
See the New Adobe Acrobat 9 (FastCompany.TV).

Google Docs now includes support for PDFs. You can upload and share PDFs just like you can Word or Excel files. It also allows you to copy and search text in PDFs.

Foxit Software have released a minor update to Foxit PDF Reader. It is not clear yet whether or this update fixes the security issue discovered by Secunia earlier this week.
Essential Keystrokes covers PDF Basics and Essential Tools in this post. Includes tips for finding an online PDF conversion service, or a PDF conversion application for the desktop.
A comprehensive list of PDF Editing & Creation: 50+ open source/free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat.

Microsoft have announced that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will include native support for PDF.
With the release of SP2 users will be able to save documents directly to PDF from within Office applications, without having to install any additional add-ons. This marks a return to Microsoft’s original plan for PDF support.
When planning for Office 2007 Microsoft initially planned to include ‘Save as PDF’ support natively, but after a dispute with Adobe, they relented and instead offered ‘Save as PDF’ support through an optional add-on, which is available for free download.
Since PDF …

When I first heard that Adobe were releasing a web conferencing and eLearning product, and that they were calling it Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro, I thought that surely, in some way, it would just be an enhancement to the current collaboration tools available in Adobe Acrobat 8. Boy, was I wrong.
So far I have failed to find any real correlation between Adobe Acrobat (you know the one that creates PDFs and stuff) and Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro (the one that does web conferencing). The only reference to PDF that I was …

Ever since the PDF format came into existence people have extolled it’s potential as an alternative to paper documents. But we don’t live in a completely electronic world, so from time to time, we’re forced to print our PDF documents to paper. Upto this point there hasn’t really been a product that focuses on reducing potential waste in PDF documents that could be printed to paper. This is where GreenPrint comes in.
From printgreener.com:
GreenPrint eliminates wasteful pages in any printout automatically, saving you time and money, and maybe more importantly, saving …

While usually the focus is on converting various different file formats to PDF, occasionally you may need to convert PDF documents to some other format. This Acrobat for Legal Professionals blog post provides details (and a script to automate the process) on how to convert PDFs to text files and TIFF files.
Generating TIFF and Text files from PDF for Concordance and Summation

Leading software developing technology focusing on embedded printing software solutions, Artifex, has just announced the release of its beta version of GhostXPS TM, a new input parser within the Ghostscript family of interpreter technologies.

Intelligent Converters announced the release of PDF-to-Word Converter, a program which converts Adobe PDF files to Microsoft Word formats. The enhanced version of PDF-to-Word Converter is now able to preserve text flow of documents as well as their original format.

Solid Documents LLC has just announced the release of its upgraded version of Solid Converter DWG. Solid Converter DWG converts DWG and DXF files into PDF formats so they can be easily shared with clients and others.

Adobe PDF encryption can now be broken in minutes if deemed necessary using ElcomSoft’s latest software release.

Enfocus released an upgraded PitStop Professional, an Adobe Acrobat plug-in which allows publishing professionals to fix PDF files in preflight.

Two leading software solutions provider, Appligent Inc. and Nuance Communications Inc. has collaborated to strengthen PDF document security specifically when using and sharing them for legal, intelligence and homeland security purposes.