Adobe Acrobat
The office of the 90s
My old work-buddy Kurt Foss, Online Editor of Adobe Acrobat User Community, wrote a short piece on a video I’ve been trying to track down for some time.
The video is centered around a typical “office of the 90s ” and is included on page 24 as part of a Flash-presentation that celebrates “25 Years of Innovation” [...]
Watch eSeminar on PDF and Flash now for free
Don’t frett if you didn’t see our note about the eSeminar on PDF and Flash in time to watch it live — the eSeminar is now available for on-demand viewing. The free one hour seminar covers:
Incorporating Flash Player-compatible content to make rich, engaging PDF documents
Adding Flash Player-compatible video to PDF documents, including FLV and H.264-encoded [...]
Acrobat 9 an “emergence into adulthood”
Back in November 2006, Thad McIlroy, publishing consultant and analyst from The Future of Publishing sent a scathing letter to the Planet PDF Editor, Dan Shea:
I think that Acrobat 8 is one of the weakest upgrades I’ve seen in years. Adobe is apparently angry with me for saying so, but that’s just Adobe getting all imperial, [...]
The PDF Developer Junkie Podcast
Do you like listening to podcasts? Do you like PDFs? Do you work with PDFs? If you answered yes to both questions, then I have got some good news for you: Acrobat Technical Evangelist, Joel Geraci, will soon be starting The PDF Developer Junkie Podcast.
The podcast will be audience driven and will rely on listeners to [...]
Tips on text in scanned PDFs and converting to PDF and OCR’ing scanned images
I just want to quickly spotlight two very useful posts today on text in PDFs, and OCR’d scanned images.
The first is from Jonathan Bowman’s AEC & EPC Blog where he covers how to covert scanned images to PDF and then OCR them, using Adobe Acrobat:
The first step is to simply locate the scanned image and [...]
PDFescape - free online PDF editing tool
A number of online PDF editors are starting to emerge, and I believe it’s a trend that’s only going to continue, perhaps culminating in Adobe releasing a truly online version of Acrobat.
Previously we’ve looked at PDF Hammer and now we’re going to look at PDFescape. I found PDFescape generally pretty easy to use and the [...]
How to make a “command and control” center for working with your documents
Ever encounter the problem where you’re reading, writing, and publishing more than one document at the same time?
Rhetorical question!
You know the scenario — you’ve got multiple windows open — all stacked on top of each other, you’re alt-tabbing applications to the point of arth-thumb-ritis. Even with 2 x 21″ screens and your Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor [...]
PDF redaction uncovered …. again!
A cursory glance, or rather quick search at Google will reveal that the topic of redacting PDF has been hot for a looong time.
During my time at Planet PDF, we even ran a review of a US government employee’s efforts at redaction gone wrong in which a thought-to-be-redacted report revealed names, training procedures and other [...]
Acrobat 9 SDK ready for Action
The Acrobat 9 SDK has been released to the Acrobat Developer Community — as PDF Developer Junkie Joel Geraci says,
Now’s the chance to show off your Kung-Fu skills and contribute to the developer community
You’ll be able to provide feedback, bugs and corrections. Sign-up and check it out — although at a touch over 50mb, perhaps [...]
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 [...]
Creating and Using Custom Redaction Patterns in Acrobat 9
The ability to remove sensitive information from PDFs is an important feature for many people, especially Legal Professionals. The good news is that enhanced redaction functionality, specifically the ability to find and redact sensitive information like Social Security Numbers, Email addresses, Credit card numbers, etc, was included in the latest Acrobat release. In this blog [...]
