PDF Readers
PdfMeNot.com - a free online PDF viewer
If you’re sick of waiting for PDFs to load in your browser or downloading them to your desktop, then check out PdfMeNot.com. This site helps you to quickly view PDFs — without a PDF Reader insight — by converting the PDFs to Flash documents and then quickly displaying the result in your browser.
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PDF Bomb
IT security professional Didier Stevens has highlighted a potential exploit in PDF Stream Objects which could be used to cause a PDF file to balloon in size, prompting Computerworld to label it the ‘PDF equivalent of the Zip bomb, or a PDF Bomb’.
Using filter parameters and filter cascading Stevens was able to create document that [...]
Viewing PDFs on the iPhone demo
Check out this video demo of viewing ebooks (in PDF format) on the iPhone. It looks pretty cool.
World’s first native PDF viewer for BlackBerry
Cerience has announced its plans to release the world’s first native PDF viewer for BlackBerry.
RepliGo Reader will provide basic PDF viewing functionality such as zooming in and out of documents and intelligently reformatting pages to fit the width of your BlackBerry screen. In addition, bookmarks, hyperlinks and searching will also be supported.
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Question: How do I link to a PDF on my website or blog?
Creating a link to a PDF on your website or blog is pretty straight forward as long as you are able to upload files to the hosting server. Once the PDF file has been uploaded it’s simply a matter of linking to where the PDF is located and your web browser will take care of [...]
Acrobat 8.1 released, includes support for Windows Vista and Office 2007
The release of Adobe Acrobat 8.1 has been announced by Lori DeFurio on her Adobe Blog. This minor release includes support for Windows Vista, Office 2007 and 64-bit Citrix and Windows environments. The update is apparently available as of today, but so far the check for updates function in my Acrobat installation hasn’t picked up [...]
Stop PDFs from opening in Firefox
My dislike for viewing PDFs inside an Internet browser grows every time a website finds a way to automatically bypass the PDF Download add-on that I have installed for Firefox and loads inside my browser. Don’t get me wrong. I am a big fan of the PDF format and use it whenever I can — [...]
PDF Readers: What are the options?
Given the plethora of PDF Creators that are out there, you might expect there to be quite a few options for free PDF Readers as well, but this isn’t the case. There really are only two stand out options. The first option, Adobe Reader, is king of the mountain and has been around, in it’s [...]
