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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.

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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.

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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 [...]