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PDF, PDF, PDF and guess what?? …. PDF
Heads up! For those amongst you who can’t go a day without finding out the latest and greatest in the world of PDF — we’ve started a new blog running which caters only for those with a penchant for PDF.
You can find it here: 4xPDF - PDF News, Articles, Tips and Rants
Check it out — you won’t [...]
Pear Note: not a bad apple here…
Useful Fruit software, a relatively new company run by Chad Sellers, a former system-level security developer who worked in the Linux environment — has just released their Mac-based software, Pear Note — which is designed “… to help users take and understand notes”.
In detail, Useful Fruit say that:
Pear Note records audio and/or video while you take your [...]
Extra, extra — read all about it, textbooks given away free (well, cheaply)!
An up-and-coming company, Flat World Knowledge plans to go live in January 2009, offering an alternative way for students to purchase their textbooks (in mostly digital form). Online versions will be free, PDF versions will be cheap, and print on demand versions will be modestly priced. You’ll be able to view these on devices such [...]
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” [...]
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, [...]
Upcoming seminar - PDF & Flash
Drum roll please!
On Wednesday, September 17, 2008, The Acrobat User Community Team will be hosting an eSeminar on how to drop a flash file inside a PDF without the need for any additional media players.
It’s an interactive 75-min eSeminar, sign up here, get some popcorn, an ice-cream and come along!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
10:00 am US Pacific / 1:00 pm [...]
Cold off the press…
As you’d well know, you can grab the latest “news” from a plethora of sources on a variety of devices — email, web, phone, whatever…. some of the technophobic amongst us even use paper!
But what do you do when you want the oldest news — back before the Gold Rush (well, perhaps not quite that [...]
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 [...]
100 miles and running…
How do you find a lost document? Probably not by using the Windows Search Assistant, his name is Rover, but let’s just say he’s not exactly a greyhound…
Nope — when you’ve really got to find something in a hurry, and you’ve no clue at all where you left it, it’s time to step up and [...]
Firefox add-on ‘pdf download 2.0′ goes primetime
Rowan reported back in late June that (very) popular PDF Download 2.0 Firefox add-on had hit beta, well, now after almost a month, its ready for center stage.
One of the main benefits it offers is the generation of active hyperlinks within the PDF — which has been a common complaint amongst other free online HTML [...]
Spread the word…
We’re always interested to hear about new developments in digital documents whether they be online, offline, xps, flash, pdf, or in fact, anything at all — even a notepad text file, if you’ve got a cool way of using it.
Our number one concern is sharing the knowledge — so if you’ve got something worth [...]
