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Monday, November 15, 2010

Adobe launches Acrobat X Pro, new cloud services | Office | Creative Notes | Macworld

Adobe on Monday launched its much-anticipated Acrobat X Pro program, along with a pair of two new cloud-based subscription services to enable the creation and sharing of PDF documents.

Acrobat X Pro offers users new features such as the Quick Tools customizable toolbar and the Action Wizard, which allows the automation of multi-step tasks that can then be applied to a single document or batches of files.

Acrobat X Pro also offers new customization options for PDF portfolios, allowing professional users to create and share custom layouts and themes for consistent branding. The program's printing options and preview tool have also been upgraded, and the company promises Acrobat will have tight integration with its services at Acrobat.com. Acrobat X Pro costs $500—or $200, if upgrading from a previous version of Acrobat—and is compatible with Macs running OS X 10.5.8 or 10.6.4.

The cloud-based services are Adobe SendNow and Adobe CreatePDF. SendNow is a document exchange service available that lets users send, download, track, and manage documents; the service helps users avoid e-mail gateway issues, FTP servers, or the need to print documents and send them through the postal service.

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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Adobe PDF Flaw Remains Unpatched - PCWorld

Image via WikipediaAdobe PDF Flaw Remains Unpatched - PCWorld

The exploit for a critical unpatched bug in Adobe Reader that's now circulating is "clever" and "impressive," security researchers said this week.

First uncovered last week by Washington-based researcher Mila Parkour, attackers are using rigged PDF documents that include code to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in the widely used Reader PDF viewer as well as in Acrobat, Adobe's PDF creation software.

The sophisticated exploit bypasses two important defenses that Microsoft erected to protect Windows, ASLR (address space layout randomization) and DEP (date execution prevention), researchers have confirmed.

"It's pretty clever," said Chet Wisniewski, a senior security adviser with software security firm Sophos. "It circumvents protections like ASLR and DEP. "Its techniques are certainly out of the ordinary and a lot more sophisticated than the garden variety [PDF] exploit."

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Friday, September 10, 2010

Smile Releases PDFpen, PDFpenPro 5.0 - PCWorld

Editing and searching PDFs on the Mac got a little easier on Thursday with Smile's release of a major upgrade to PDFpen.

PDFpen 5.0 introduces major new features like the ability to redact or erase text, even in OCRed documents. You can now search and replace or redact text, and forms you create can support list widgets and Web-based submit buttons.

You can selectively change the resolution and color depth of a single image or the entire document to reduce a PDF's file size. Performance has also been improved to better handle large documents.

In addition to these new features, PDFpenPro also gained the ability to convert Websites into multi-page PDFs. This is on top of its existing advantages over the regular version, which include: creating cross-platform PDF forms and generating a table of contents.

PDFpen and PDFpenPro 5 are available now for $60 and $100, respectively. Smile offers a 90-day money-back guarantee, and both editions have trial versions.