Acrobat Plug-ins

Rosebud acquires a patent*

Rosebud PLM has moved to the next level with its WYSIWYG collaboration tool, Rosebud, based around Adobe PDF.
They announce that:

…”our unique method of collaboration on the Web — ‘Method and Software for enabling N-way collaboration work over the network for computers’ is officially designated as ‘patent pending’.”

and that….
Rosebud enables full lifecycle document review [...]


Let’s hear it for ClearScan!

Duff Johnson, head honcho at Document Solutions Inc., has been working with scanning to PDF intelligently for almost as long as computers had keyboards (in place of punched cards). I’ve had endless discussions with him over the years about the multi-resolution technique he developed to perform intelligent scanning, OCR’ing and downsampling — based on analysis [...]


Tutorials, tools, scripts and samples for Acrobat and PDF

I’ve had the inside tip that a new website, pdfscripting.com, a site focused on scripting Acrobat and PDF — with a healthy dose of JavaScript is on the boil. Using a subscription model, you’ll have the opportunity to access a swagger of videos, script examples, automation tools, and cut-and-paste libraries.
It’s owned and operated by WindJack [...]


Swiftwriter plug-in for Adobe Acrobat/Reader updated

Omtool have released an update to their free Swiftwriter plug-in for Adobe Acrobat/Reader — a one-click solution that integrates PDF documents with popular document management systems.
Improvements in the new version include:

Allows users to not only save PDF documents from Acrobat or Adobe Reader directly into a configured DMS system (fully profiled), but to also allow [...]