Already the first full week in June and, no doubt, you feel like knocking off work and vacationing in sunny places. Yet, this could be a feeling even harder to overcome over at Adobe. This is because in the Adobe world this week, there are a few announcements that are popping up which seem to foreshadow work, not relaxation.
First off the list, Adobe has just released an
Acrobat 8 Standard and Professional update that is now available on the site. From the Support Knowledgebase page, here’s a sampling of what features the Acrobat 8.1 update will sport: a new PDFMaker Ribbon UI in Office 2007, a Vista Preview Handler, direct rendering of dynamic forms, and support for MS Windows Vista.
In addition to the Standard and Professional 8.1 update, there’s also the
Reader update. The latest tweaks? New Vista OS support, improved PDF form performance, support for 3D PDF functionalities, and a “Send to FedEx Kinko’s� command option. That’s right. By integrating the
FedEx Kinko Print Online service, users can easily submit the viewed PDF document to Kinko’s in the US for an automated print production order.
Secondly, Adobe announced its latest version of
Adobe LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite) that will be released in July. The suite will come in two editions, Business Transformation and Data Capture. LiveCycle ES works on the large-scale enterprise level that is now a unified and integrated system rather than a family of products like its predecessor. Once deployed, it connects external user applications and data capture with internal business document workflows. It is the latest in the PDF form enhancing software since it first shipped in 2004.
And to finish, a small related news bit to add to the above. According to an article on
Network World, a free plug in tool, “Guide Builder� will also be released next month for the LiveCycle Designer Tool. Brian Wick, Adobe’s group product marketing manager, claims that it “will let developers working in PDF generate dynamic forms that could be used to build applications such as for online mortgages, insurance claims and other documents where users might need step-by-step prompts.� Thus, you can expect to see some changes in the future when you interact with organizations online.
You can be sure that whenever Adobe has got its hands full with new developments for the PDF, you PDF users out there will have yours full as well.
