Adobe released on Tuesday July 2, 2008 latest version of PDF reader software “Adobe Reader 9”. Adobe has added native support for Flash technology to it’s PDF viewer software. Adobe Reader 9 introduces a new term “PDF Portfolios”, ability to unify a wide range of content into one single document. In addition to all these features Adobe Reader 9 also provides the ability to collaborate with live PDF documents with it’s online PDF editing suite.
Adobe Reader 9 loads PDF files fast as compare to earlier version of PDF readers. Adobe has added support for digital signature and 256-bit AES encryption to gives user to a more secure PDF experience.
The Acrobat 9 family consists of Acrobat 9 Standard, Acrobat 9 Pro, and the new Acrobat 9 Pro Extended software. The most comprehensive member of the family, Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, includes Adobe Presenter software for easily turning Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into multimedia experiences that can be published as PDF files.
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Some of the scenarios for Flash and Silverlight usage are similar, such as rich media/video within websites, or interactive rich content for e-commerce, e-learning, or advertising. However, Silverlight uses a dramatically different approach for creating and delivering experiences in a way that aligns more with our customers’ development and deployment needs.
Platform
Microsoft’s client/web platform offerings span Windows to the Web, and include emerging surfaces such as the media/living room (Xbox360, Media Center PC), as well as mobile devices. Each of these platforms has shared capabilities and development tooling, but greatly different performance and integration characteristics. By comparison, Flash, Flex, and AIR are all variants of the Flash animation plug-in that Adobe acquired from Macromedia. They share a presentation and programming framework that was first developed for “skip-intro” and other pre-broadband experiences in the browser, and have incrementally evolved to add better programming, but lack the integration, performance, and tooling necessary to build many of the applications and content experiences that will be increasingly of interest to many businesses.
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On 1st June 4, 2008 Adobe launched a web based alternative to its poplar PDF document format creation service. Acrobat.com has four principal components: a word processor called Buzzword; online file sharing via a feature called Share; a file converter that lets you convert up to five documents per month, free, to PDF format (offered within Share); and ConnectNow for personal Web conferencing. Adobe also makes API’s available for developers so they can create service mash-ups more easily. Have a closer look to each of these four components of Acrobat.com
Word Processing
Adobe has acquired Virtual Ubiquity that has developed an online flash based word processor named as Buzz Word. Buzz Word is not Microsoft Office Word, but it offers you some basic functionalities including document creation, formatting, inserting tables and images. Buzz Word has very simple to learn and use user interface. Users can import a verity of documents in Buzz Word including Word (.doc, .docx and .XML), .RTF, and .txt. You can also export to HTML or to PDF formats.
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Today Adobe released Adobe Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS4 Beta for download. To download and use Dreamweaver and Fireworks you need to have a serial number of either Dreamweaver CS3 or any of the Adobe Creative Suite editions. If you don’t have a licensed copy, you only get a 2-day free trial. Adobe CS4 products can be install along with the Adobe CS3 products. These two products are available on Adobe’s Lab website and Adobe CS4 products will work on Windows as well as Mac operating system. Let’s have look to Adobe Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS4 Features
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Beta Features
Live View
View your web pages under real-world browser conditions with the new Live View in Dreamweaver — while still retaining direct access to the code. The new rendering mode, which uses the open source rendering engine WebKit, displays your designs like a standards-based browser.
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I find a lot of comparisons regarding the Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe AIR. are they same or there is some else in both of these rich Internet application creation tools or framework. I researched over the Internet trying to find out weather both of these platforms are same or they are different and I find out that these two platforms have some similarities but they are totally different. Lets see what all these Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe AIR.
Can be Defined as
Adobe air is cross platform cross operating system environment for for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML and AJAX. Adobe AIR application also be deployed on the desktop also.
Microsoft Silverlight is a web browser plugin that provides support for rich Internet applications such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback. Microsoft Silverlight supports .Net framework and Visual Studio tools for developing rich Internet applications.
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Worlds largest software maker in recent years loosing it’s brand value and facing a lot of challenges from a lot of vendors. It never happen before to Microsoft that it is struggling so much to, done things right. Google making life hard in online search as well as in advertisement , people are looking some other operating rather then going for Windows Vista. I found out 10 fields where Microsoft want to be No:1
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Microsoft is now seriously thinking about the Adobe Flash. Microsoft sees Adobe Flash is one of big concern for it’s Windows development. As Adobe Flash supports cross side platform development as well as deployment in the same way that Java has deliver the same thing a decade ago. If a large number of web application are developed using the Adobe Flash including critical applications, then there is no need for Windows for as a platform for developing web application. All major operating supports at least one version of Adobe Flash to run Flash applications.
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