Filed under: Business, Internet, Adobe, Yahoo!
Would you like an advertisement with that PDF?
So perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that Adobe and Yahoo! are partnering on a method to insert targeted advertisements into PDF documents. Not just the ones you read online, but even PDFs that you download to your computer.
The announcement doesn't mean that every PDF file you read from now through eternity will have an ad tacked onto the side. But it does mean that content publishers now have yet another way to try to convince you to buy stuff. If you download or open a
Publishers can sign up for the Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo! program and then upload their PDF content to be ad-enabled before it's distributed. According to Adobe's press release, ads will only show up in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, so it's possible that you may be able to avoid advertisements by using a third party application like FoxIt.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Tush said 1:46PM on 11-29-2007
Well, that definitely means I'll never use Adobe Reader again....
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Todd Henkel said 4:39PM on 11-29-2007
Yet another reason to keep using FoxIt.
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Cougar said 4:43PM on 11-29-2007
Well, maybe it is time to make a "What is your favorite PDF Reader that is not Acrobat Reader? Ask DLS"
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Brad Linder said 4:39PM on 11-29-2007
Cougar: We would, but we can only hear FoxIt so many times. Of course, there's also Sumatra, and several good options for Linux, but I'm pretty sure FoxIt would win by a landslide.
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Evan Young said 6:29PM on 12-03-2007
I'm guessing that a software upgrade will be required to install the support for presenting ads. My suggestion to my clients, friends and family will be to NOT update reader past it's current version. I'll also be downloading and archiving a copy of the current non-ad-infested reader for later install.
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