Adobe recently previewed its new
Photoshop CS3 product at the Photoshop World conference. There aren't too many details available on it yet, except that it will have Macromedia technology of some sort integrated with existing Adobe technologies. Adobe also starting taking pre-orders for
Acrobat 8 (should ship in mid-November) as part of the Creative Suite 2.3 package. Some new features of Acrobat 8 Pro are:
- Easy PDF creation (is that really a NEW feature?)
- Scan to PDF with OCR
- Convert email to PDF
- Capture website to PDF
- Create PDF/A and PDF/X documents
- Combine files from multiple apps
- Managed shared reviews with comment tracking and printing
- Password and permissions
- Use digital signatures
- Protect attachments with 128-bit encryption
- Form templates and auto-filed recognition
Adobe can only benefit by letting Macromedia technology seep into every crack of its already killer software. The two companies both have the best stuff out there in many respects, so it will be good see how this "two are better than one" idea plays out.
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9-21-2006 @ 9:07PM
Euan said...
Unfortunately this does mean more of the Adobe bloat found on their fantastic software. I was amazed when Cool Edit 2/Audition 1.5 went to over 300MB for version 2.
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9-25-2006 @ 2:56PM
Andy King said...
ryan,
hi, we review Adobe's new Acrobat 8 Professional (pre-release) for performance against PDF Enhancer 3.1. The new Acrobat features faster operations, smaller PDFs, a new interface, and the ability to combine different types of files into one PDF.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/pdf/
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