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  • Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard

    Adobe Systems' popular portable document format (PDF) has become the latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard.

  • Microsoft gunning for Adobe's PDF format?

    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.

  • Adobe sharks circle Westpac after e-mail disaster

    The recent potential premature disclosure of Westpac's annual results in a poorly-constructed e-mail was like blood in the water for Adobe, which is now eagerly trying to sell the bank electronic document security.

  • Adobe reveals patent suit

    Software maker Adobe Systems revealed in a regulatory filing Thursday that it is being sued for alleged patent violations in its Acrobat publishing software.

  • Google Docs gets limited PDF support

    Google Docs, the online office suite from the search giant, now has some limited but still useful support for PDF files.

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  • Is Windows still relevant?

    In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic.

  • Microsoft and Adobe to square off?

    In digital documents, Web applications and image editing, Adobe has a healthy head start. But Microsoft is making some noise.

  • Adobe versus the world

    CEO Bruce Chizen faces Microsoft on one flank and open-source on the other. Is he worried? Nope.

  • When standards don't apply

    A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.

  • Microsoft, Adobe in document showdown?

    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.

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Reviews (18)

  • Adobe Acrobat version 5 out!

    Adobe Acrobat 5.0 allows for tighter Web integration, XML support for easier data exchange within Adobe PDF files, among other functions.

  • Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

    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 9 Pro Extended (Beta)

    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.

  • Adobe and IBM join to boost PDF security

    IBM is expected to announce a partnership with software maker Adobe Systems to boost security in documents created with Adobe's Acrobat software.

  • Make your own PDF: Nitro PDF vs. Adobe Acrobat 7.0

    To offer print-ready forms, brochures, and booklets on a Web site, you must create documents in the portable document format (PDF).

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