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Acrobat, Canberra, Microsoft

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Hav­ing presen­ted for Adobe over the past 8 years, I get a little touchy when someone attacks tech­nical presenters. It’s like being a part of a fra­tern­ity. Round up the wag­ons!
Demon­strat­ing soft­ware: the col­lec­tion of skillz are not taught by Toast­mas­ters. Nor most Present­a­tion Train­ers. It is a set of unique tech­niques, that are generally […]

Intel Mac: Acrobat 8 Distiller Performance

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

A com­ment from Dan on Dis­til­ler 7 vs. 8 Per­form­ance over on Accel­er­ate your Mac! To sum­mar­ise: a 463Mb .ps file Dis­tills in a third of the time.

Acrobat 8 is Universal Binary

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Con­firmed from Ali, at Adobe in this blog post. Adobe Acrobat 8.0 is Uni­ver­sal Binary.

Into that goodnight, GoLive?

Monday, September 18th, 2006

A part of the Acrobat 8 launch today, Cre­at­ive Suite Premium is get­ting a revamp.
And not just with Acrobat 8. Good­bye GoLive, hello Dream­weaver 8.
GoLive Sys­tems, a small Ham­burg Mac-only developer, was pur­chased by Adobe before the dot­com boom. Sadly, it might have been the boom’s first cas­u­alty as it lan­guished behind Dream­weaver.
No surprises […]

Forms are the key to Acrobat 8.0 Professional

Monday, September 18th, 2006

As I am no longer “inside the Adobe-loop”, I found out about the announce­ment cour­tesy of Robert Scoble’s post. Of all people!
My first ques­tion: where is the beta of the Reader? With Acrobat 7.0, the beta Reader shipped very close to the announce. Also, Intel Mac users; I am assum­ing its Uni­ver­sal bin­ary, as […]