http://www.pdfalerts.com PDF news and tips Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:02:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en PDF Download 2.0 is now in beta. You can sign up for the beta program here. New features will include: Web to PDF (new) One-click web-to-PDF conversion, all while retaining the page layout and active hyperlinks. The full support for HTML and CSS creates great looking PDF files ideal for archiving, sharing ... http://www.pdfalerts.com/convert-web-pages-to-pdf-with-one-click-using-pdf-download-20/ Nitro PDF Software have released version 5.4 of Nitro PDF Professional and it includes enhanced PDF forms and content editing, amongst other improvements. Read more: Nitro PDF Professional available for immediate Free Download An introduction to forms in Nitro Pro 5.4 Nitro PDF Professional 5.4 Release Enhances PDF Forms and Content Editing Nitro PDF ... http://www.pdfalerts.com/nitro-pdf-releases-nitro-pdf-professional-54/ June 23, 08 - Adobe have released a critical patch for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. Read Adobe's security bulletin here: Update available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2 Summary: A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2. This vulnerability would cause the application to crash and could potentially ... http://www.pdfalerts.com/adobe-release-critical-patch-for-adobe-reader-and-adobe-acrobat/ I agree with the sentiments expressed in this PC World article Has Adobe Taken a Wrong Turn with Acrobat 9?. Since the release of Acrobat 7 it seems like Adobe have run out of new PDF related ideas for Acrobat. Has it reached it's peak point? Some of the non PDF ... http://www.pdfalerts.com/pc-world-has-adobe-taken-a-wrong-turn-with-acrobat-9/ Here's a bunch of the best links from various blogs covering the recent release of Acrobat 9: Acrobat 9 Announced! New Features for the Legal Market. Acrobat 9: A revolutionary release. Acrobat 9 Knows Standards. Reference XObjects, PDF/X-5 and Acrobat 9. Preflight Audit Trails. Acrobat 9 JavaScript Revealed. See the New Adobe Acrobat 9 (FastCompany.TV). http://www.pdfalerts.com/acrobat-9-wrapup/ Google Docs now includes support for PDFs. You can upload and share PDFs just like you can Word or Excel files. It also allows you to copy and search text in PDFs. As you would expect, searching text in PDFs using Google Docs is lightening fast compared to Acrobat. http://www.pdfalerts.com/google-docs-now-supports-pdfs/ The ASUS Eee PC comes with either Xandros or Windows XP installed by default. Since there is a ton of different ways to create PDFs on Windows XP (just search Google for 'create pdfs free xp'), this post will just focus on creating PDFs on Xandros. In this tutorial we are going to ... http://www.pdfalerts.com/create-pdfs-on-the-eee-pc/ 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 ... http://www.pdfalerts.com/pdf-bomb/ Foxit Software have released a minor update to Foxit PDF Reader. It is not clear yet whether or this update fixes the security issue discovered by Secunia earlier this week. Essential Keystrokes covers PDF Basics and Essential Tools in this post. Includes tips for finding an online PDF conversion service, or ... http://www.pdfalerts.com/the-pdf-wrapup-23-may-2008/ Microsoft have announced that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will include native support for PDF. With the release of SP2 users will be able to save documents directly to PDF from within Office applications, without having to install any additional add-ons. This marks a return to Microsoft's original plan for PDF support. When ... http://www.pdfalerts.com/native-support-for-pdf-in-office-2007-service-pack-2-sp2/