PDFalerts

• Adobe PDF security flaw: This weeks PDF related headlines have been dominated by a recently uncovered vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. The vulnerability was discovered by Petko Petkov, a security researcher, who seems to have a knack for discovering high profile flaws. In response, Adobe Systems have released a security advisory that provides details on how users can hack their registry to protect themselves. The vulnerability only affects machines that are using the combination of Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7. Adobe will release a patch before the end of the month that fixes this security hole.
• Designing PDF forms with OpenOffice: PDF expert and author, Ted Padova, takes a look at the the PDF forms functionality in OpenOffice over at his Acrobat Users blog.
• List PDF Bookmarks with a Free Script: Acrobat for Legal Professionals has a useful post on how to easily create a list of all bookmarks in a document.
• Change PDF Versions using Acrobat: Sometimes when you submit PDF documents you need to use a specific PDF version. This article provides you with tips on how to check what version of the PDF specification a document is using and then change it.

• If you are interested in the technical side of PDF [and related technologies] then check out James King’s new blog called Inside PDF. He is the PDF Architect and a Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe — so you are definitely getting the inside word.
• PC Magazine has praised the PDF format and provided readers with reviews of four different PDF creators — Adobe Acrobat, BullZip PDF Printer, deskPDF Professional and PDF Converter Professional 4. It’s definitely not a comprehensive list (or even close) of all the PDF creators out there, so check out the comments section of the article because other readers have suggested some additional PDF creators.
• If you are lucky enough to already have an iPhone, and need to create some PDFs, then check out this new application called iPDF. It is a simple online text editor for creating and distributing PDFs.

A few interesting links that I’ve come across today:

• Rick Borstein on his Acrobat for Legal Professionals blog has attacked PDF clones as being cheap and inferior imitations of Adobe Acrobat. He obviously knows which side his bread is buttered on.
• Want to convert PDFs to Word, Excel or JPEG? Computer Tips From A Customer Guy has some.. err.. tips.
• Germany company UNIVERSE GmbH have released pdf-Office Professional in Version 7.0.