Adobe brings Web conferencing to Acrobat
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Acrobat 8 line, due in November, will allow people to view a common PDF file via a Web browser.
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(InfoWorld) - Honing in on browser incompatibility issues in Web development, Adobe Systems on Thursday is launching CSS Advisor, a Web site that documents these problems and offers solutions. The site is geared to users of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and features best practices for Web page development. "With CSS Advisor, the problem that we set out to solve is that people are wasting a huge amount of time trying to make their pages look the same across different browsers," said Kenneth Berger, Adobe product manager for the company's Dreamweaver technology. CSS Advisor provides a central resource to show developers what they might run into, such as dealing with content overflow on an Internet Explorer page that was not a problem with Firefox, Berger said. Developers can access lists of issues focusing on margins, he said. About 30 browser issues are featured now. CSS itself has introduced a lot of compatibility issues, Berger said. "There's a major change in Web design, with people changing from table-based layout to CSS layout," said Berger. But CSS offers advantages such as making pages more lightweight so they download faster. CSS pages also are more searchable and more easily accessible by disabled persons. Adobe has seeded CSS Advisor with a lot of information but the community-driven site allows for user input as well by anyone with an Adobe account. Adobe is administering the site to prevent inaccurate information from being posted. Adobe plans to integrate its Dreamweaver technology with CSS Advisors next spring. "What you'll be able to do is automatically detect top issues within Dreamweaver proactively," Berger said. Dreamweaver is Adobe's HTML-based tool for building rich Internet applications that do not use the company's Flash technology. CSS Advisor is a "great idea," said Dreamweaver user Jason Brightman, Web director at Harris Publications. Serving as central repository, CSS Advisor gathers together information now scattered over hundreds of sites, Brightman said. Developers are running into all sorts of cross-browser compatibility issues these days, Brightman said. "A lot of them have to do with IE 6, which is not a very CSS-compliant browser," he said. CSS itself allows for faster development of Web sites and it separates design and content layers to make it easier to redesign or update, he added. Also on Friday, Adobe is announcing version 1.4 of its Spry Framework, which features a JavaScript library to help developers get started using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). "Essentially, the problem with AJAX is that it's really not as easy as folks would like, to get started with," Berger said. Version 1.4 is a preview release that features a higher level of maturity than the initial 1.0 release offered in April. Developers can use version 1.4 in production systems. Featured in version 1.4 are form validation widgets, enabling pages to feature forms that can be validated by users on an e-commerce site. Data such as credit card information can be validated. A general release of Spry is expected with the 2007 availability of Dreamweaver.
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InfoWorld - Honing in on browser incompatibility issues in Web development, Adobe Systems on Thursday is launching CSS Advisor, a Web site that documents these problems and offers solutions.
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(InfoWorld) - Adobe's ColdFusion software for building Internet applications and Web sites is being improved with Microsoft .Net support, enabling .Net objects to be invoked from within the ColdFusion language. A public beta of ColdFusion 8, accessible here, is to be offered on Wednesday. The general release is set for mid-year. Version 8 is the first Adobe-branded release of the former Macromedia technology. ColdFusion is a server-side Java application; it is partnered with a markup language for writing ColdFusion applications. .Net support in the upcoming version 8 bridges the Java and Microsoft worlds. "Customers don't need to select one technology to the exclusion of the other," Tim Buntel, Adobe senior product marketing manager, said. Also featured in ColdFusion 8 is generation of PDF documents as well as capabilities for working with PDF forms and manipulating existing PDF documents. Support for the JBoss application server has been added, also. For developers, Adobe is adding interactive debugging based on the Eclipse IDE. A Server Monitor capability, meanwhile, identifies bottlenecks in the server. Adobe's Flex rich Internet application technology and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) components are leveraged in the new product for integration of complex environments with intuitive interfaces, Adobe said. ColdFusion differs from Flex in that Flex is a client-side technology featuring a language and compiler to convert code to Flash content. With ColdFusion, the server-side technology can integrate with databases and Java and .Net objects while also offering text searching. However, ColdFusion also can generate an HTML interface for Web applications. The ColdFusion upgrade puts to rest questions about Adobe's commitment to the technology after acquiring Macromedia, said analyst Ray Valdes, research director for Internet platforms and Web services at Gartner.Â  "People may have wondered if Adobe appreciated ColdFusion, and I think they do. I think it's part of their enterprise software strategy," Valdes said. While Adobe recently offered the Flex software development kit to the community at large via open source, there are no plans to open-source ColdFusion. This stance gives the company the ability to make certain ColdFusion integrates with other Adobe technologies, Buntel said.
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Software company Adobe issued a updated version of Acrobat for the Windows and the Macintosh OS X platforms this week, fixing three security holes that could be used to compromise a user&#39;s system.
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Users of Adobe's programs are taking issue with an apparent feature within the company's products that is sending out some type of data to an outside service.
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The publishing software giant Adobe Systems Inc. today introduced Adobe Acrobat 7.0 software, the company&#39;s desktop applications suite for creating and viewing PDF (Portable Document Format) files.
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Adobe Systems is announcing on Thursday plans to release source code for its high-performance remoting and messaging technology via an open source product called BlazeDS.The technology is leveraged in enterprise rich Internet applications, Adobe said.Adobe's remoting allows for connecting of Flex clients to Java server business logic. The messaging software enables building of real-time or data push applications.Through the open-source effort, developers can connect to back-end distributed data and push data to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) applications. The Adobe Flash Player is used on the client side."We've seen more and more of our customers who are using Flex technologies are building more sophisticated applications," said Phil Costa, Adobe director of product management for Flex and ColdFusion. "To support the growth of that developer community, we're releasing these low-level technologies as an open-source project so a larger community of developers can get access to them."BlazeDS, which stands for data services, allows developers to add connectivity to rich Internet applications for collaboration and data-push functionality. Developers also can connect rich clients to server applications, including Java and Adobe ColdFusion components, Adobe said.Remoting is primarily used to make remote requests against existing server logic, while the messaging technology is used most often to stream data out to the client. These previously were available to enterprises only as part of the company's LiveCycle Data Services ES offering. Also being contributed to open source is Adobe's AMF (Action Message Format) protocol specification, which has been a proprietary binary data protocol. Remoting uses AMF to access server-side business logic.Adobe's implementation of remoting runs in Java, but the company also is working with an open-source project called AMF PHP to implement the same protocol in PHP.BlazeDS will be offered under the Lesser GPL version 3 license in early-2008. BlazeDS and AMF are available as public betas on Adobe Labs. Using BlazeDS requires client libraries, which are included in the Flex SDK and Flex Builder.Adobe may in the future provide a native AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) client to work with its newly open sourced technologies.Adobe also plans to offer Adobe LiveCycle Data Services Community Edition, a subscription service featuring builds of BlazeDS and access to Adobe support services.The enterprise-level LiveCycle Data Services ES (Enterprise Suite) includes capabilities for building customer engagement applications that require messaging, advanced client-server data synchronization and conflict detection and resolution. Offline data management services also are featured.??
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Adobe has announced version 7.0 of its Acrobat family of products. New capabilities permit workgroups to use Acrobat 7 and Adobe's PDF format to manage business activities including form building, assembling documents from multiple sources and secure collaboration on projects outside of firewalls. In addition, the free Acrobat Reader will now have integrated commenting tools. Adobe has also introduced a new content type for PDF: 3D computer-aided design (CAD). Acrobat 7 will ship before the end of the year with retail pricing starting at $299 USD.
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Mike Potter has posted about an event happening this Thursday (June 28th) - a webcast to help developers learn more about integrating Flex and PHP.   Are you interested in building rich Internet applications with PHP as the backend data service? Join me this Thursday as I present at an Adobe online e-seminar. The session is scheduled for July 28th, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time.   You'll need to register for the event to attend and you'll get info on "why rich internet applications" and some examples of companies using it in their web-based applications.
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Adobe&#39;s version 7 of Acrobat Professional includes some new features meant to improve the ability to collaborate on PDF documents.
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Blog: Support for Acrobat and Reader has arrived for Microsoft Vista and Office 2007.
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Adobe this week updated its Acrobat and Reader software to fix vulnerabilities spotted by security intelligence firm iDefense. Adobe this week updated its Acrobat and Reader software to fix vulnerabilities
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Update will add new ways to interact with PDF-based content, including wizard-like "Form Guides" and flash-based graphics.
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Yahoo Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. have entered an alliance aimed at boosting Yahoo's Internet search tool while possibly turning more Net content into PDF (Portable Document Format) documents, to the advantage of Adobe's PDF Reader product.ADVERTISEMENTSBC Case Study: Crate & BarrelWhat sold them on improving their network? A system that could cut management costs from the get-go. Find out more.
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By Mark Kellner, The Washington Times  Sep. 20--It's axiomatic that Washington runs on forms. And Adobe System's  Acrobat Professional software is one of the most important tools a form  creator or user can have in his or her arsenal.   Acrobat Professional 8, announced Sept.
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Rounds up the collaboraters with V.8 Adobe's cash cow, Acrobat, gets a makeover in November, upgrading a version number to 8.0, and gaining a new companion.â¦