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Adobe's PDF Becomes ISO Standard
News Adobe's popular Portable Document Format, or PDF, became the latest International Organization for Standardization standard as of Wednesday morning. PDFs are well known for taking a long time to open in browsers with Adobe's own Reader software.
[July 4, 2008, 10:10]
Microsoft, Adobe Squabble Over PDF
Talkback Has Adobe made any actual comments about this issue at all? Or is this a conflict being created by Microsoft's PR department?
[June 5, 2006, 19:51]
Adobe And IBM Join To Boost PDF Security
Talkback The latest release from InDefense of ‘MailDefense-Advanced’ now protects me from embedded active content within an Adobe PDF document. Since Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 introduced the ability to execute embedded
[February 27, 2004, 12:05]
Adobe Seeks Formal Standardisation For PDF
News But Adobe customers, particularly governments, have told Adobe that making PDF an ISO-approved standard would raise their level of confidence that the format would be around in the long term, said Kevin Lynch, Adobe senior vice president and chief...
[January 29, 2007, 7:59]
Adobe Issues Updates To Plug PDF Hole
News Adobe Systems has issued updates to fix security flaws in its Reader and Acrobat software that could allow an attacker to remotely commandeer a computer. The vulnerabilities affect Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Standard, Professional and Elements...
[January 11, 2007, 8:12]
New Virus Travels In PDF Files
News Adobe's popular PDF file format has generally been considered immune to viruses. Through an agreement with Adobe announced in June, McAfee's software is able to scan PDF files, Gullotto said. The virus spreads only by way of Adobe's Acrobat...
[August 8, 2001, 9:30]
Microsoft, Adobe Squabble Over PDF
News Microsoft is bracing for a legal battle in Europe with Adobe Systems, following a breakdown in negotiations last week over the use of Adobe's PDF technology in Microsoft's Office applications suite. Microsoft, which last October announced it would...
[June 5, 2006, 15:40]
PDF Reader Flaw Fixed
News Adobe Systems joined Microsoft on "Patch Tuesday" and delivered fixes for two security flaws in the ubiquitous Adobe PDF reader software. The vulnerabilities affect Adobe's Acrobat and Reader software for both the Windows operating system and Apple...
[July 13, 2006, 9:45]
Adobe Extends Server Push To Acrobat
News Publishing software giant Adobe Systems is set to continue its push into enterprise software with the announcement on Monday of new server products that extend the company's ubiquitous PDF document format.
[October 21, 2002, 9:04]
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Debuts With Acrobat 9
News According to Adobe, Acrobat 9 now includes native support for the company's Flash technology, so web pages with multimedia content can be converted into PDF documents. The Acrobat suite also enables users to "co-navigate" a PDF document in real...
[June 25, 2008, 17:09]
Microsoft Releases PDF Add-on
News Microsoft has released a free download that will enable Office 2007 users to save documents in both Adobe Systems' PDF format and Microsoft's own rival format, XPS. The Save as PDF feature, announced last October, prompted Adobe to threaten to file...
[September 13, 2006, 13:40]
Adobe Takes Another Look At E-books
News The software is meant to be a stripped-down and more flexible e-book reader, compared with its current PDF-based reader, Adobe Reader, the company said. Digital Editions will be able to read PDF files but will not include all the features of the...
[October 24, 2006, 11:15]
PDF Forms To Add Barcodes
News One of Adobe's key differentiators from purely electronic forms competitors, such as Microsoft's InfoPath, is PDF's ability to accommodate both digital and printed matter. Forms designers will be able to use Adobe Designer or planned plug-ins for...
[March 8, 2004, 9:00]
Adobe E-form Will Target Microsoft
News The as-yet unnamed product, which Adobe plans to introduce next year, allows companies to create and distribute interactive forms using Adobe's portable document format (PDF) and extensible markup language (XML), the fast-spreading standard behind...
[July 15, 2003, 9:23]
Adobe: No Threat From PDF Spam
News Responding to a query on whether PDF spam can embed malicious software, Erick Lee, a security engineer at Adobe, wrote in an email on Wednesday: "PDF is no more able to embed malware on an unsuspecting user's system than any other typical email...
[August 16, 2007, 10:52]
Adobe Patches Mac Security Flaws
News The first flaw lies in the way the applications process JavaScript tags embedded in PDF files, according to Adobe. Adobe has updated its Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat for Apple's Mac OS to version 7.0.2.
[June 29, 2005, 13:00]
Acrobat: No Longer Written On Stone
News Adobe Systems' Acrobat software and the PDF documents it creates are often referred to as electronic paper, but for consumers they've been more like a stone tablet -- impervious to any user alteration.
[October 18, 2002, 8:25]
On-form Microsoft Attacks Adobe
News The company's Acrobat Capture software, for instance, lets companies convert piles of paper documents into searchable Adobe PDF archives. The online forms segment that XDocs targets is only a small part of Adobe's overall "network publishing...
[October 10, 2002, 8:42]
New Acrobat Expected This Year
News Acrobat is Adobe's family of tools for creating content based on the company's portable document format, or PDF, the cornerstone of Adobe's "intelligent document" push to make PDF documents the foundation for exchanging business data.
[September 17, 2004, 11:00]
Adobe To Open Up PDF Interaction
News Until now, folks who wanted to add comments to a PDF document had to have a version of Acrobat, Adobe's collection of PDF authoring tools, said Pam Deziel, director of Acrobat product marketing for Adobe.
[November 15, 2004, 8:00]
