Adobe's Acrobat.com collaboration services leaves beta, gains tools
Adobe has moved its Acrobat.com Web-based productivity and collaboration services out of beta and is offering paid-for subscriptions, though initially in North America only.
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Adobe has moved its Acrobat.com Web-based productivity and collaboration services out of beta and is offering paid-for subscriptions, though initially in North America only.
Adobe has released critical security patches, fixing 13 bugs in its Reader and Acrobat software.
Adobe has launched a new Web-based application that enables designers to test how their sites look across multiple browsers and operating systems, so potential issues can be discovered and fixed.
Today Adobe announced Flash Catalyst for interactive designers looking to quickly create desktop and Web applications that tie into backend databases, including over the Web. Adobe says that Catalyst helps bridge the gap between designers and developers so a rich Internet application as conceived by a designer has the best chance of being developed that way on the back end.
Adobe is to raise the price of its Creative Suite 4 suites and most of the individual products within them in the UK by 10 per cent from July 1.
Adobe has launched Flash Catalyst, an interactive design tool for creating interfaces for desktop applications that's pitched at designers rather than developers.
Adobe Fireworks users who had to cope with assorted bugs -- most notably one involving text shifting -- can breathe a sigh of relief. Adobe has come out with an update for its vector and bitmap graphics editor that the company says will fix the most common bugs in the CS4 version of Fireworks.
Nik Software on Wednesday announced that its Sharpener Pro 3.0 plug-in software is now compatible with Adobe Lightroom 2.0. A free update for registered users, Sharpener Pro costs US$200.
Adobe has announced the Adobe Education Creative Lectures tour, which it says showcases creative industry best practice and encourages skill development for both students and lecturers. The tour will combine hands-on training days for lecturers working in the Creative/Media HE colleges and universities, validated by industry certification, alongside lecture days for students on-site at the college campuses. The free one-day Creative lectures will be held at locations across the UK including London, Liverpool, Southampton, Cardiff, Aberdeen and Falmouth. The first kicks off on today and tomorrow at Ravensbourne Media Academy in Kent, finishing up at Aberdeen College on May 26 and 27. The lectures for students will cover subjects including digital design, web communication, rich media and visual design. At some institutions, Adobe will also provide hands-on training for lecturers.
Adobe has updated to its InContext Editing service, the Web content management tool introduced last autumn alongside its Dreamweaver CS4 Web design software.
Adobe has introduced Photoshop Marketplace, billed as the most comprehensive collection of Photoshop related products, services, and communities available.
Adobe has unveiled a version of Flash that would allow consumers to watch programmes on their TV sets that are streamed from the Internet.
At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, execs from Adobe and Nokia mapped out their plans for the future of Web application design for mobile devices -- and the design of the devices themselves.
As companies think about how to make their Web applications more interactive, Adobe has emerged as an interesting player to watch at this year's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
Adobe has partnered with one of the most popular social networking Web sites, Facebook, to give developers a new set of tools to create applications.
At the Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, Adobe took off the wraps from Director 11.5. It's expected to ship by the end of March for £795 plus VAT/US$1,000.
The Adobe InDesign team has released a free migration guide for those switching from QuarkXPress to InDesign CS4.
Adobe on Tuesday fixed a critical security vulnerability in its Acrobat 9 and Reader 9 applications, which the company said "would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system."
Adobe may be feeling the pinch from the recession, but it insists that it isn't losing business to Microsoft.
Adobe has updated its Flash multimedia software to eliminate five flaws affecting Windows, OS X and Linux systems.