Adobe pushes its Flash 10 beta 2 refresh
The latest beta update to Flash Player 10 has been made available, adding performance enhancements and many community-suggested features.
Download Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta 2 for Windows from FileForum now.
Adobe helps search engines to index Flash-based content
Adobe Systems Inc. announced today that it is working with both Google and Yahoo to improve the search engine indexing of Flash (.SWF) files -- a capability search engines have had for years, but haven't used.
Search engine giants Google and Yahoo are utilizing Adobe's recently-updated Flash Player standard to help make Flash-based content searchable. Google has already launched its indexing mechanism, with Yahoo reportedly next in line to do the same.
Adobe issues final release of Acrobat 9 series
It's a more aggressive marketing stance for Adobe as Acrobat branches out into online applications, more and better document collaboration, and Flash animation embedding.
The functionality gap is narrowing between Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat, at least in the category of document production. Granted, Acrobat has no counterpart to Excel. But Office has no counterpart to Flash either, and its integration into the creation of both PDF documents and PDF-based presentations -- a feature greatly expanded in Adobe's Acrobat 9 series, officially released today -- is likely to give customers reason to compare the two suites side-by-side.
Adobe Acrobat JavaScript flaw exploit in the wild
Computer researchers at Johns Hopkins University have discovered a flaw within most recent version of Adobe's Reader and Acrobat software applications that could allow hackers to take control of vulnerable systems.
"Adobe categorizes this as an critical issue and recommends affected users update their installations," Adobe said in an advisory today.
Adobe launches its latest test of Buzzword online WP
The viability of AIR as an application platform is only becoming more clear with today's revamp of Buzzword, Adobe's online word processor, now part of Acrobat.com. BetaNews spent some more time with Buzzword this morning and afternoon.
Buzzword does not feel like an online app. Typically, when one thinks of running applications in his Web browser, a decade of experience has already taught him to expect to type his data into postage stamp-sized controls, click on Submit, and wait a few hours. Buzzword flies in the face of that expectation by delivering a snappy, well-presented, original front end that doesn't take a month to learn.
Adobe Web Services test run: ConnectNow and Create PDF
Part of Adobe's beta of Acrobat.com, ConnectNow is a Web Conferencing tool, and Create PDF gives you a way to build PDF files from anyplace, whether or not you have access to Acrobat software.
Adobe's ConnectNow is a tool which allows an administrator to create a virtual meeting room where users log on and communicate with each other using a single URL.
Adobe extends Acrobat branding to Web services
For years, Microsoft hasn't really had serious competition in the general-purpose applications space. But if Adobe succeeds in transplanting its Acrobat brand into word processing and online services, Microsoft could have a fight on its hands.
Originally, "Adobe Acrobat" described its reader for Portable Document Format files, and the software used to create them. As "PDF" evolved to become a brand in its own right, Adobe shifted the "Acrobat" moniker to refer more exclusively to the software used to generate PDF files.
Adobe to unveil its second edition of PDF Print Engine
The PostScript era may at last have shuffled off its mortal coil, as the next generation of Adobe's printing workflow and reproduction system for PDF gets set to roll out to OEMs this summer.
At one time -- longer ago than it sometimes seems -- the software print engine of the modern world was based around PostScript, and Adobe was on top of the world as the champion of that format. The first editions of PDF were perceived as not so much an encapsulated PostScript but as an abbreviated alternative to it, mostly for ordinary text documents. But as that standard evolved into the format of choice for Web-based brochures and marketing literature, its capability to reproduce images and graphics eventually exceeded that of PostScript.
Adobe releases time-sensitive betas of Creative Suite 4 tools
The latest betas of Adobe's Dreamweaver, Soundbooth, and Fireworks tools are now available for free download. But unless you already own CS3, they'll only give you a brief peek at the product, before the 48-hour self-destruct timer goes off.
Registered owners of Creative Suite 3, however, will be allowed to use these betas until the release of CS4, which currently has no release date. However, unless Adobe has some kind of registration system built into those betas, they may need to be installed on production systems alongside CS3.
Adobe Flash Player 10 public beta now open
Today Adobe Systems launched the public beta for Flash Player 10, the company's ubiquitous runtime graphics platform. Added features include 3D animation and transformation support, new effects and filters, as well as new rich text layouts.
Flash developers can download the Pixel Bender toolkit at no further charge, and run it in conjunction with Flash Player 10. These together add the ability to create custom filters and animated effects similar to those found in Adobe After Effects.
Adobe updates DNG photo format, adds Vista support
Download Adobe DNG Codec for Windows Vista RC1 from BetaNews FileForum now.
Adobe's Digital Negative specification, also known as the DNG format, was updated Tuesday, as the company pushes it to become a unified standard for working with raw photographic images taken by digital cameras.
Microsoft snags key Photoshop developer from Adobe
Microsoft has hired Mark Hamburg, a 17-year-veteran of Adobe's Photoshop product and most recently its new Lightroom product.
Although Microsoft did not confirm independently to BetaNews at press time, news reports indicate that Hamburg's likely new job is the "Future of OS User Experience" group at the company.
Adobe looks to push Flash through Open Screen Project
Adobe said Thursday it is looking to provide developers with a consistent runtime environment across multiple platforms, which allows for simpler and quicker development.
Adobe has lined up an impressive list of supporters to back the project, including ARM, Cisco, Intel, LG, Motorola, Qualcomm, Toshiba, and Verizon Wireless, among others. It has also gotten the blessing of several content providers including the BBC, MTV, and NBC.
Adobe pulls the plug on GoLive
With the company's purchase of Macromedia and the changing design needs of the Web, the decade-plus old WYSIWYG HTML editor took a backseat to Dreamweaver, and fell out of favor with developers.
The multimedia company acquired the rights to GoLive from German software developer GoLive Systems in 1999, where it started its life as CyberStudio, However, with its purchase of Macromedia in 2005, GoLive took a backseat.
Apple, Adobe address security flaws in QuickTime, Flash
Both companies on Tuesday released rather significant security updates addressing a wide range of security holes in their products.
11 issues are fixed in Apple's update for QuickTime, version 7.4.5. The updates affect both Mac OS X and Windows, although not all security fixes are for both operating systems.
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