Adobe Systems' popular portable document format (PDF) has become the latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard.
When Bill Gates showed off the new Metro document format in Longhorn at a hardware conference last week, some analysts were quick to call it a PDF killer.
Yahoo and Adobe are set to launch a free service to help publishers make money on their Adobe PDF content by automatically inserting advertisements into the PDFs from Yahoo's network of online advertisers.
Adobe Systems expected on Monday in the US to detail plans to submit its Portable Document Format specifications to the International Organization for Standardization, a body of particular importance to governments and large corporations.
PDF spam is more a nuisance than a security risk, according to Adobe, which claims there is "no hard evidence" where the junk e-mail has become a serious issue.
In the past week, the security environment around Adobe's Reader and Acrobat products has imploded, with yet more JavaScript vulnerabilities appearing. Adobe needs to look no further than Microsoft for a lesson in how to deal with these situations.
It's the message I always dread seeing on my computer screen: "the Adobe Update Manager requires your attention".
With digital information exploding, Adobe's outgoing CEO sees room for innovation on the desktop and the Web.
In digital documents, Web applications and image editing, Adobe has a healthy head start. But Microsoft is making some noise.
CEO Bruce Chizen faces Microsoft on one flank and open-source on the other. Is he worried? Nope.
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.
Electronic-forms projects are the software world's flavour of the month, with Microsoft, Adobe and others attempting to simplify electronic business transactions.
IBM is expected to announce a partnership with software maker Adobe Systems to boost security in documents created with Adobe's Acrobat software.
To offer print-ready forms, brochures, and booklets on a Web site, you must create documents in the portable document format (PDF).
Adobe's latest incarnation of Acrobat is top of the line, highly featured software. Just make sure you need all the bells and whistles before you pay the AU$999 price tag.
For composing long PDF packages at an office that requires security and wants to use the new digital forms, Acrobat 8's got the goods, but it's overkill if you only seek to make short PDF files.
Adobe Acrobat 5.0 allows for tighter Web integration, XML support for easier data exchange within Adobe PDF files, among other functions.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
What do Telstra shareholders think of the telco's new CEO David Thodey? And would they support the government'… Watch it now
The Change Program changes its Agenda
What happens when you change the agenda of the ATO's Change Program, or program in some changes to the Agenda?… Watch it now
Microsoft's Tracey Fellows on Windows 7
After the launch of Windows 7 last week, ZDNet.com.au spoke briefly with Microsoft Australia and New Zealand M… Watch it now
Having problems with complex data center? Simplify your data center now.
Has New Zealand's smiling assassin delivered?
The long-awaited separation of Telstra
Google open-sources JavaScript tools
What makes you click?
Tell us for a chance to win a $1,000 GAME gift voucher.
Click here for more.
Win an iPhone 3GS!
Sign up as a ZDNet Australia member during November and you'll go in a draw to win an iPhone 3GS!
Click here to sign up!
Best Laptops
Check out the best laptops here!
Click here for more.
