Adobe Systems has stepped up efforts to curb software piracy in the Asia-Pacific including corporate misuse of its enterprise software licenses.
Adobe has announced the latest offering in its Photoshop line: Elements 7.
Adobe is launching an online community with a word processor and file sharing, while adding Flash and interactive maps to Acrobat 9.
Microsoft likes digital photography enthusiasts as customers, and plans to release a free new utility designed to keep them wedded to Windows.
Adobe has announced that its next version of Photoshop will include 64-bit capacity, but due to a recent Mac programming quirk, the higher-rate application will only be available for Windows.
It's the message I always dread seeing on my computer screen: "the Adobe Update Manager requires your attention".
My recent rant about the horrors of Adobe Acrobat's update process attracted a fair degree of sympathy, but also managed to royally annoy at least one Big Deal reader, who questioned what it had to do with the column's stated intention of illuminating issues central to IT managers.
It's been a couple of weeks since the full announcement of Silverlight took place -- now that other players have shown some of their cards and the dust has begun to settle, what can we take from it?
Electronic-forms projects are the software world's flavour of the month, with Microsoft, Adobe and others attempting to simplify electronic business transactions.
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.
Here's the way things work at Microsoft. After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst critics, allowing management to get on with business of crushing rivals. But I'll be first to acknowledge that Silverlight breaks with that pattern.
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.
Highlights of the new features and enhancements in Adobe's Create Suite 3 core applications.
Microsoft is far better known for its relationship with developers than with designers but as the software giant begins to step on Adobe's toes with its design tools, it has started hiring "user design evangelists" to help spread the word -- both to the design community as well as within its own campus. One of the first designers to be recruited into this new role was Shane Morris, who joined Microsoft at the start of 2007.
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.
With its streamlined tools, enhanced nondestructive editing capabilities, and better performance, Adobe Photoshop CS3 will look very attractive to almost any user.
Adobe Creative Suite 2.0 is a premier design environment, combining image-editing and layout apps for both print documents and the Web.
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's Media Player is an excellent application that is beautifully designed and easy to use. Shame about the currently available content.
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