Adobe Systems is adding new document protection mechanisms to its business workflow software with an acquisition announced on Monday.
Google Docs, the online office suite from the search giant, now has some limited but still useful support for PDF files.
Microsoft will enable people to publish documents in the Adobe PDF format with Office 12, a company product manager said on Saturday.
Adobe Systems' portable document format, long a de facto Internet standard, is under fire from competitors looking to muscle in on the electronic document market.
Microsoft's XDocs technology was originally hailed as major threat to Adobe's PDF format. But now, Adobe is fighting back.
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Adobe Systems' Acrobat Reader software has become one of those rare birds in personal computing: a de facto standard that has nothing to do with industry giant Microsoft.
Much of the future success of Adobe Systems hinges on the work done by its Platform Business Unit, which is headed by Kevin Lynch, the company's chief software architect.
Best known for apps like Photoshop, Adobe is relying on Kevin Lynch to break out of the shrink-wrapped software business.
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In digital documents, Web applications and image editing, Adobe has a healthy head start. But Microsoft is making some noise.
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The new InDesign CS will hold its own as the document-layout anchor of Creative Suite and as a standalone DTP package, but as a product update, there's little to write home about.
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Adobe's professional Web-authoring tool includes updates that make it more competitive with the latest version of Macromedia's Dreamweaver; improved integration with other Adobe products also seems designed to win over current Dreamweaver users.
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