- 4/06 - How to instructions for Retaining Formatting When Converting from PDF to Word.
- 5/01 - Adobe releases a free, downloadable Paper
Capture plug-in
for the Windows version of Acrobat 5.
- 4/01 - Adobe posts
Acrobat
tutorials
on-line.
- 4/01 - Adobe releases
Acrobat version 5.
- 2/01 -
Google's
Search Engine
now indexes and searches on-line PDF files.
- 2/01 -
GOHTM.COM
offers a free service for converting PDFs and other
format files into HTML web pages.
- 2/01 - Ted Padova
authors an article on Acrobat
PDF Forms: An
illustrated, step-by-step introduction, hosted on the
PlanetPDF web site.
- 12/00 - Adobe bought
Glassbook to expand its development of PDF technology in
the emerging ebook industry. They have published a free
93 page on-line guide titled How
to Create PDF Files for
eBooks.
- 09/00 - Adobe Acrobat
Search
Engine for PDFs
demonstration site allows you to search within a wealth
of PDFs distributed over the web.
- 09/00 -
"Creating
an Interactive Portfolio"
is an article published on PlanetPDF that discusses how
graphic designers can create cross-media portfolios of
their work on CD-ROM.
- 09/00 - "Using PDFs on
Corporate
Enterprise CD-ROMs"
article presented at Seybold San Francisco 2000 PDF Day
(see slide
presentation).
- 09/00 - Document
Solutions provides insight into new paper-to-PDF
conversion options available with Adobe's
Acrobat
Capture 3.0.
- 08/00 - Performance
Graphics announces production and availability of its
10th anniversary Interactive
Portfolio CD-ROM.
- 08/00 - Performance
Graphics announces production of two
fundraising CD-ROMs
for United Way of Greater Los Angeles and Wells Fargo
national Community Support Campaign.
- 07/00 -
BookVirtual
"will supply the production capabilities to make digital
books, the e-commerce transaction services for retailers
and web sites to sell them, and the long-term support to
readers who buy them."
- 07/00 - New Windows
Postscript
Printer Drivers
(version 4.2.6) have been posted by Adobe for Windows 95
and Windows 98 users.
- 06/00 - Adobe,
PricewaterhouseCoopers and InterTrust join forces to
build end-to end eBook
Publishing and
delivery solutions around the world.
- 06/00 - Adobe releases
Adobe
Distiller Server
software which "enables consistent and reliable
conversion of PostScript files to Adobe PDF in a
client/server network environment."
- 05/00 -
Acrobat
Business Office
is the medium priced solution for using PDFs in a
workforce environment. Unlike Reader, forms can be saved
.
- 04/00 - Adobe's
innovative Create
Adobe PDF
web-hosted service is now available online. For a small
monthly fee, users can make unlimited PDFs - available in
U.S. and Canada.
- 04/00 -
Adobe
Illustrator 9
features native support for Adobe PDF. Round-tripping PDF
files without losing any file features plus you can set
Distiller Job Options as you Save.
- 03/00 - Stephen King's
first "killer ap" for e-book technology, RIDING THE
BULLET. Download either a MAC
version
(utilizing PDF WebBuy technology) or the WIN
version (which
utilizes Glassbook EBX/PDF technology).
- 03/00 - Stephan
Jaeggi's white papers on pre-press
PDF workflows
are available as PDFs for download or as free printed
documents from Heidelberg..
- 03/00 - Adobe releases
the cross-platform Acrobat
4.05 Reader CD
which can be purchased online for $14.95 (+shipping and
tax).
- 03/00 - Tony McKinley
exposes the structural potential of Adobe PDF for
delivering XML documents in his Adobe article titled
"XML
in a PDF Wrapper."
- 03/00 - What are some
of the benefits of the Adobe
Document Server
- a technology that allows browsers to serve up PDF
content without requiring Reader or PDFviewer to view it?
- 02/00 - Impresse
provides automated online corporate and small business
print
ordering portal
utilizing PDF technology.
- 02/00 - i/O online
magazine article Software
Innovations With a Personal
Touch describes
new software that automatically generate PDF documents by
combining databases with customer profile information.
- 02/00 - PlanetPDF
introduces Project Trojan - a comprehensive listing of
almost 300
PDF-related tools
with links to the manufacturers, demos, or on-site
purchase.
- 02/00 - Adobe
introduces a number of Online
Services such
as InProduction
Preflight Online,
Create
Adobe PDF Online,
and Search
PDF Online.
- 02/00 - Adobe releases
cross-platform browser viewing and Illustrator conversion
plugins for their proposed XML-based implementation of
the Scalable
Vector Graphics
format.
- 01/00 - C. Scott
Miller is now a regular columnist for PlanetPDF for
Digital
Publications Design.
These and other
articles can be
accessed from this website.
- 01/00 - Apple unveils
MacOSX
which features "Quartz:
Based on the Internet-standard PDF, the powerful new 2D
graphics system delivers on-the-fly rendering,
anti-aliasing and compositing of PostScript graphics with
pristine quality. " See a short QT4
demonstration.
- 01/00 -
Using
PDFs for CD-ROM
Publishing is
an article describing why publication designers use PDFs
for CD-ROM projects. It includes 4 case studies.
- 01/00 -
Automating
Web-based Forms with CGI
Script is a
Tips & Techniques ePaper from Adobe. Its author,
Malcom Guthrie, reveals how easy it is to create your own
CGI scripts for PDF Forms.
- 12/99 - Quark offers a
simple XML
introduction.
In addition to dedicating more resources to the
development of PDF implementations, they are actively
creating tools for Quark/XML workflows.
- 12/99 -
PDFs
Improve the Creative
Process - an
article by Scott Miller discusses how PDF workflows
during the creative process are saving time and money and
headaches for designers and their clients.
- 12/99 -
Running
Reader v4 from CD
by Mark Anderson explores how to enable Reader to launch
directly from a CD without first installing it on the
host's computer.
- 11/99 - Joel Messenger
of Glyphica offers a comparative look at the
PDF,
HTML, and XML formats for
insight into determining the best one to use for a
specific application.
- 11/99 - Everybook,
Inc. creates and markets Ebooks
that use PDF as
their standard format. Read a Planet PDF column called
"The evolution of the book."
- 11/99 - Glyphica
markets InfoPortal
Team Online, an
on-line service for sharing PDF files in a workgroup
environment. Free 30-day trial subscription available.
- 11/99 - Adobe releases
PDF
Merchant for
selling and distributing PDF eBooks and Web
Buy for Acrobat
Reader. Read the press release "Adobe
Systems Delivering eBooks to Desktop and Laptop
Computers ."
- 11/99 -
PDF
Web Capture - Creating a Millennium Family Tree
is a new
article/tutorial by C. Scott Miller with a PDF sample
page. This has been published as a PlanetPDF
article in a
slightly different form.
- 11/99 - Instructions
for purchasing the latest version of Adobe
Acrobat (4.05) with
bug fixes and Macintosh "missing plug-ins" are available
from the Adobe web site.
- 10/99 - Creativepro
provides its Preflight
Online service
for free. It will check a PDF file for a number of
attributes, primarily to verify its suitability for
pre-press. Errors are supported with extensive Help
documentation.
- 10/99 - Xtsreem
Software releases their 3.0 version of Data
Management Application
(DMA) software. The upgrade provides a means to retrieve
data from any database and populate PDF forms.
- 10/99 - Cardiff
Softwares has introduced the pricey but powerful
PDF+Forms
(1.0) software which extends Acrobat 4.0 forms
capabilites for the Windows platform.
- 9/99 - Mekon
Book-to-PDF
plugin for Adobe FrameMaker
5.5.6 enables
the user to generate multiple PDFs from a FrameMaker
book.
- 9/99 - Macintosh users
can download Adobe's free, simplified "Create
Adobe PDF"
Utility from the PDF Zone website. It requires use of
AdobePS 8.6 printer driver and Acrobat 4.
- 9/99 - Shlomo Perets
of Microtype has published a PDF guide called
"Conversion
of FrameMaker 5.5.x Cross-File Links to
Acrobat."
- 9/99 - Vision Work has
published four PDF
workflow documents
online: Basics, Management, Creation, and Production.
Also available in German.
Can also be viewed on-line without Reader via
Adobe
Document Server.
- 8/99 - New
MAC
OS Acrobat Plug-ins (Betas)
are now
available for download. These plug-ins provide features
missing in the original distribution of MAC versions of
Acrobat 4. FAQ
document is available.
- 8/99 - New
PDF
search engine
features have
been added to the free Atomz search service. Try it for
the word "Universal" using our search box at left .
- 8/99 - A PDF of Lonn
Lorenz' PDF presentation titled "Interactive
PDF" presented
at the Seybold Seminars/Boston 1999. Nice overview of
Acrobat 4 buttons, dialog boxes, and interactive
capabilities.
- 8/99- Got any
suggestions for improving Adobe program features? If so,
submit your ideas via the Adobe
Product Feature Request
Form.
- 8/99 - New How-To
instructions added : Adding
Programmable Actions to
PDFs
- 8/99 - New How-To
instructions added : Inserting
and Editing PDFs using
Acrobat
- 8/99 - New How-To
instructions added : Searching
HTML and PDFs with a Single Website Search
Engine
- 8/99 - New How-To
instructions added : Adding
Security Options
- 8/99 - New How-To
instructions added : Specifying
Full-Screen Transition
Effects
- 8/99 - Bingham-Digital
offers an evaluation version of their HTML/PDF full-text
indexing and search engine software called
DocFather.
Be sure to specify the Office Edition (WIN only).
- 8/99 - Adobe is
saturating their website with information about their
upcoming release of InDesign. New InDesign
PDFs are
available on various topics.
- 8/99 -
MAC
OS 8.6 font problem
. It is recommended that new users of the OS get the most
recent update to the system Font Manager. More
information & access to the installer are available
from the link above.
- 8/99 - Instructions
for Creating
Rollovers using
Acrobat forms fields.
- 8/99 - For a limited
time only (90 days from launch) you can buy InDesign at
less than half price. See Adobe's site describing How to
Order the InDesign
Competitive and Companion
Upgrades.
- 8/99 - Hewlett-Packard
markets a workgroup color fax machine called the
HP
9100 Digital Sender
that utilizes a scanner to create PDFs for emailing (or
faxing) to compatible JetSend devices.
- 8/99 - Blueworld
inaugurates a new list serv for InDesign
Talk online
discussions.
- 8/99 - Adobe website
announces the availability of a beta IFilter
4.0. With the
proper NT Server configuration, users can make indexes
and search the contents of PDFs served over the internet.
- 7/99 - DocuLex is
marketing a competitive capture alternative to Adobe
Capture with no per-click charges. PDF.Capture
V1.3 however
does not generate PDF Normal.
- 7/99 - Free web site
search engine software available by joining
Atomz.com.
- 7/99 - Extensis
inaugurates the Creativepro
website which
will feature special E-services in coming months - like
PDF to HTML file conversions.
- 7/99 -
Scitex
Extends PDF Workflows with Enfocus
Software.
- 7/99 - New
Acrobat
Reader 4.0 WITH SEARCH
capabilities are now available from the Adobe download
site.
- 7/99 -
Seybold/San
Francisco will
host PDFZone's PDF
Day series of
seminars on Wed., 9/1/99. Expect major release of
InDesign at Adobe booth. Full
Calendar.
- 7/99 - Adobe presents
its seminar "Streamlining
operations through digital
workflows" at
Xplor
Int'l 20th EDS Conference &
Exhibit in L.A.
on Mon.,11/1/99.
- 6/99 -
"PDF
Color Separation Secrets"
article in Publish Magazine is available online. It gives
a good series of basic "how-to's" for dealing with color
seps for PDF.
- 5/99 - A new "How
To..." has been added to our Presentations &
Multimedia section - How
to Create Navigation Controls using
Acrobat.
- 5/99 - Apple announces
an InDesign
Premiere
demonstration for Designers will be given in many North
American cities between 6/2-7/23/99.
- 5/99 - Adobe has
provided a new version of AdobePS
printer (v.4.3) for Windows
'9X. It fixes
problems relating to TrueType text searchability and
printing to old PS printers.
- 5/99 - New Acrobat 4.0
feature: It is now possible to make HTML
links to individual
pages within
on-line PDFs.
- 4/99 - Free
CloneLink
(Windows) plug-in
copies properties from one hyperlink and allows the user
to modify hyperlinks thoughout a document using these
properties.
- 4/99 -
Audience
One markets a
product that uses PDF to allow enterprise publishers to
deliver customized, personalized documents on-demand.
- 4/99 - Adobe and Intel
are co-sponsoring a series of seminars in N. America
titled Business
Success. By Design.
Registration is free.
- 4/99 - Adobe and Apple
are co-sponsoring a series of previews
of InDesign
around North America. Signup for the free seminars at the
Apple seminar site.
- 4/99 - A simple
tutorial
for XML basics is
available for free download from Media Design in
Progress, manufacturers of Emile Lite - Mac-only XML
editing software.
- 4/99 - Scott Hamlow's
technique
documentation for
creating and linking Help files to software dialog boxes
using PDFs created in FrameMaker.
- 4/99 - Adobe announces
the Windows and Mac versions of Acrobat 4 are now
available. Mac users can register for notification of
missing
feature plug-ins.
- 3/99 - Adobe announces
a series of U.S. seminars for Design & Print (AM) and
Corporate (PM) Acrobat
4 techniques.
- 3/99 - MacWeek is
replacing its paper edition with a weekly PDF edition,
starting in May. Mac enthusiasts can sign up for
PDF
subscriptions to MacWeek
online.
- 3/99 - What is the new
Acrobat 4.0 Web Capture feature good for? Our article
3
Reasons for Acrobat Web
Capture offers
some insights.
- 3/99 - Our article
titled "Acrobat
4.0,
InDesign,
Publishing
Projects, and
the Future
of PDF:
A Conversation with
C. Scott Miller" as published in Acrobuddies
e-zine.
- 3/99 - RTS/Planet PDF
opens its online PDF
Store for
selling PDF related products and plug-ins. Downloadable
demo versions are available for each product.
- 3/99 - Adobe's John
Warnock announces new Adobe products and initiatives that
herald The
Arrival of Digital
Publishing.
- 2/99 - Handmade's
Image Alchemy PS
is graphics format conversion software that batch
converts to and from Postscript and PDF files.
Multi-platform trial versions available.
- 2/99 - Paravision
Imaging announces PageGenie
2000 - an image
capture and OCR alternative to Adobe Capture.
- 2/99 - 4Translation,
Inc. launches self-service website for Language
Translation
services. They accept files in .pdf, .doc, .rtf and .html
formats.
- 2/99 - PDFZone
supplies innovative PDF
Toolbox filter
to ease searching for plug-ins and related PDF
technologies.
- 2/99 - Adobe to make
major cross-media
publishing announcements
at Seybold Seminars/Boston. Live webcast March 2,
8:30-10am.
- 2/99 - Adobe gives
Acrobat
4.0 preview -
release scheduled for late March. A PDF of
Acrobat
4.0 FAQ are
available at the Adobe website.
- 1/99 - Infodata/Ambia
is marketing a high volume paper to PDF product called
Compose
Document Conversion Server
for EDMS
implementations.
- 1/99 -
PDF
CD-ROM project -
Performance Graphics announces its completion of
"DocuPrint NPS/IPS Interactive Customer Documentation"
for Xerox Corporation.
- 1/99 - Thad McIlroy
has released his article titled "PDF
Workflows that Work"
dealing with pre-press applications of PDF.
- 11/98 - Internet World
reports on the current development of a WWW
vector standard
in "W3C Considers Proposals From Microsoft, Adobe".
- 11/98 - Macworld's
Joseph Schorr highlights Making
the Most of Acrobat
Reader.
- 11/98 -
CGS'
View Board is a
good example of how designers are posting PDFs as
printers proofs on the WWW for their clients to access.
- 10/98 - Visually
impaired users can use the Adobe
Access web
server or Windows plug-in that enables screen reading
programs to read Acrobat files.
- 10/98 -
"PDF
is the best universal
format" article
written for PurePDF E-zine.
- 10/98 -
MacOS
8.5 is
incompatible with three Acrobat 3.x plug-ins. Check out
the announcement at MacFixit.
- 10/98 -
Glyphica
launches
Portalware™
software for web server content management (including
full PDF indexing and search).
- 10/98 - Adobe and
Microsoft have been working together (!) on a open
typeface standard (called OpenType)
to resolve PDF font conflicts.
- 10/98 - Adobe
has published the Adobe Postscript Extreme White Paper
defining the Portable Job
Ticket Format (PJTF).
- 10/98 - A report
titled "Seybold
SF Publishing '98 from
a PDF Perspective" is now available here.
- 10/98 - Adobe now has
four white papers concerning Prepress
Creation of PDF
files for printing.
- 9/98 - Adobe Capture
Process
Options are now
described in their own section.
- 9/98 - A special
Executive
Summary section
has been added that helps justify implementing PDF
workflows within institutions.
- 9/98 - The
Adobe
buyout offer
announced by Quark (8/18) has sparked interesting
commentary and discussions at Seybold SF.
- 9/98 - CGATS (The
Committee for Graphic Arts Technologies Standards) is
defining a version o PDF for pre-press labelled
PDF/X.
- 9/98 - Quark has
released a downloadable, beta version of its
PDF
Import/Export QuarkXTensions
software. Early reports are not encouraging.
- 8/98 - Windows users
upgrading to MS Internet Explorer 4.x need
ActiveX
Control for
Adobe Acrobat to enable byteserving and Search
highlighting.
- 8/98 - Need a markup
utility that works with non-editable PDF files? Check out
Cimmetry's
AutoVue - a
Reader/PDFViewer alternative.
- 8/98 - Get crude
universal language translations from a link on our home
page or go to AltaVista's
translator
directly.
- 8/98 -
EDMS
consultation project.
- 8/98 -
FrameMaker
offers universal solutions for long document publishing,
including HTML, PDF, SGML, and XML workflow integration.
- 8/98 - There is a
dynamic way to create PDF files over the web without
using PDFWriter or Distiller. Learn more about
PDFlib,
a C library.
- 8/98 - Want to
know more about byte-serving
(page-at-a-time downloading) of PDF pages? Check out the
settings required to make it work.
- 8/98 - A Quark PDF import filter is now available as
part of Extensis' QX
Tools (lists at $99US).
- 8/98 - Infomania
revamps and revives its Pre-Press
User Forum
providing a trouble-shooting meeting place for pre-press
PDF Workflow devotees.
- 8/98 - A comparison
between using Capture
Plug-In vs. Adobe
Capture for
your paper conversion needs.
- 8/98 - Seybold
Seminars PDF
Plug-In List is
now available as an 88K PDF file. It compares many
offerings available for view at the 8/30-9/4/98 SF event.
- 8/98 - The Xenos Group
has excellent data to share concerning reducing image
file sizes using PDF
compression and
optimization
techniques.
- 8/98 - The Xenos Group
offers a comparison between HTML,
Java/ActiveX, PDF and
TIFF for the
delivery of digital files.
- 8/98 - What are the
advantages and disadvantages for using PDF files for
presentations
and multimedia?
- 7/98-Problems with
Postscript
Error messages?
Want to know what they mean? Visit two sites accessible
through our Troubleshooting Links page.
- 7/98-Electronic
B&W
faxes that are
transmitted in the Group IV compression format can be
opened in Exchange and saved in the PDF format.
- 7/98 - A persuasive
recommendation from Motorola to departments of the
federal government to standard proposal
acceptance on
the PDF format
- 7/98-PDFZone
inaugurates PDFZone
Acrobat PDF Ring
- a "shopping mall" of PDF-related websites, including
this site.
- 7/98 -
Web
Vector Formats Square
Off. MacWeek
article compares Adobe PGML vs. Microsoft VML vector
format recommendations to W3C.
- 7/98 - How-to
instructions for creating PDF files from Word and Excel
using PDFWriter.
- 7/98 - How-to
instructions for downloading, installing, setting
preferences in a browser, and navigating files using
Acrobat
Reader.
- 6/98 - Information
from Dov Isaacs concerning TrueType
compatibility
with Adobe's Acrobat technology.
- 6/98 - How-To
instructions for creating and indexing cross-platform
CD-ROMs that
contain PDF files.
- 6/98 - How do you
prepare documents for the next millenium? Check out five
recommendations for preparing
files for PDF conversion.
- 5/98 - Apple announced
at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference that it will
make PDF its standard graphics file format for
MacOS
X.
- 4/ 98 - Adobe Systems
submits a new vector graphics format proposal to W3C.
PGML
(Precision Graphics Markup Language) incorporates XML
into PDF.
- 5/98 - A revamped
"How
To..." section
has been added to this site so that instructions for
various procedures are easier to find.
- 5/98 - An article
written for Publisher's Marketing Association magazine
titled Adobe's
PDF: Document Standard for Publishing's
Future (also
available in PDF).
- 4/98 - A flow diagram
showing how AP
AdSEND works
with ad agencies to distribute complete ads (as PDF
files) to over 1,400 newspapers worldwide.
- 4/98 - Adobe has
released a "PDF
Printer Driver Plug-in"
that automates the generation of PDF files when using
AdobePS
8.5.1 chooser
item on the Macintosh.
- 4/98 - Having problems
with your PDF files or printing
PDF files made
by someone else? Check out our Troubleshooting
links area.
- 4/98 - A
presentation
comparison of
size and features between saving a PowerPoint (98)
presentation as an HTML website vs. distilling it to a
PDF file.
- 4/98 - An enhanced
"How
To..." series
of instructions has been added to all of our Acrobat Uses
section.
- 3/98 -
"Dynamic
Forms" and
"On
the Fly Forms"
production demonstrations.
- 3/98 -
Octavo
shows the way to conserving the look of old manuscripts
using sophisticated cameras and the Acrobat PDF format.
- 3/98 -
Direct
Imagination
provides a stunning example of the power of PDF
presentation of historic art and graphics.
- 3/98 - Adobe announces
dynamic PDF forms support with the availability of two
new FREE
Forms Plug-ins.
JavaScript is supported.
- The new Acrobat Forms
Author JavaScript
Object Specification
(PDF 358K) is separately available for download here.
- Seynbold Seminars has
an exhaustive online Acrobat
presentation
from Adobe (w/notes and samples) available through their
website.
- Seynbold Seminars has
a
Acrobat
Bug List they
compiled for the March, 1998 New York conference.
- Read about and sign up
for their Adobe/Glyphica's Adobe
Acrobat Corporate Learning
Forum (PDF
325K). Free seminars in the SF/SJ area.
- An advanced
PDF
workflow diagram
showing the production of a multi-platform, transmitable
file starting with paper and digital documents.
- Hummingbird
Communications Ltd. discontinues Common
Ground
alternative to PDF for lack of sales, effective 2/16/98.
- Adobe releases a
free
PDFMaker plug-in
(Windows only) for converting Word 97 documents to PDF
with automatic linking features.
- Adobe releases
Distiller
3.02 which
accepts hi-res graphics (1700dpi) and Type3 fonts.
Problems with watched folders are also resolved.
- Adobe FrameMaker
5.5 adds new
universal publishing facility with PDF and
XML
support.
- Can't get enough of
the Olympics?
Adobe case
studies
Glyphica's effort to convert archival Olympic books into
rich .pdf web documents.
- An edited set of
visuals from our presentation "The
PDF Format: Universal
Publishing" is
available here in PDF Format.
- Quark releases its new
4.0
version of XPress.
How does it deal with PDF, Adobe, and Adobe's PageMaker?
- APPLY! - 600
College
applications
(PDF) available on a cross-platform CD - FREE!
- A "Crackerjack"
plug-in for Exchange - it makes color
separations
from PDF files.
- A format and
feature
comparison of
Adobe Acrobat vs. four other universal formats.
- A flow diagram of a
sample imaging
service bureau.
- A listing of
Exchange
plug-in manufacturers
and their products.
- A list of PDF
troubleshooting
resources.
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