Adobe opens Kuler API
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Adobe Systems invites outsiders to sample color combinations supplied by users of the company's Kuler service.
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Adobe has teamed-up with Google to jointly announce a new plug-in for Photoshop CS3 Extended that links the software up with Google 3D Warehouse.
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Adobe customers will be able to test out the next version of Photoshop, as the company is releasing a beta on its Adobe Labs development site on Friday. The application, due in Spring 2007, will now natively support Intel Macs.
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Apollo runtime is dubbed 'Adobe AIR' and due for testing along with Flex update.
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(InfoWorld) - A Web services partnership will allow U.S. users of Adobe Systems software to send documents via the Internet to FedEx Kinko's centers for printing. The deal was announced Wednesday, the same day that Adobe released its Reader 8.1, which includes a "send to FedEx Kinko's" button on the main toolbar and that same option in the file menu. The free Adobe Reader is available now for download at the company Web site. Acrobat 8.1 will be available later this month and will have the send option in the file menu. "This is a great example of our strategy to provide customers with more points of access," said Richard Maranville, senior vice president and chief information officer of FedEx Kinko's, a division of the FedEx shipping and business services company. The partnership is aimed at making it more convenient for Adobe software users, many of them small and midsize businesses, to get documents printed. "This [option] is going to be a much better workflow for them," he said. FedEx Kinko's launched its Print Online application in October of last year, allowing users to upload files for printing and other services at FedEx Kinko's stores. The partnership integrates that service into Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format) software. In terms of numbers and reach, Print Online has 133,000 registered users, while FedEx Kinko's has 1,600 total stores in 11 countries, with 200 opening in the last year and 300 more planned for the next 12 months, Maranville said. Adobe doesn't break down its user numbers by nation, but its Reader software is on more than a half a billion desktops worldwide, according to Michele Turner, Adobe vice president of product management and developer relations. The partnership, which is new, had its genesis in discussions between FedEx Kinko's CEO Kenneth May and Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen. Chizen "had a lot of excitement and a lot of vision about exploring software as a service with FedEx Kinko's," Turner said. After the two CEOs got revved up about the possibilities, their ideas for the first step in the partnership trickled down and about six months ago the software development for the Web services got rolling. "It happened very, very quickly," Maranville said. His team is confident that it is ready to handle the onslaught of PDFs that could come with the new option in Reader and Acrobat. Although the Web services pairing will initially be just for the U.S., expansion could be something the companies will contemplate in the future, he said.
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The software maker offers a new service to add digital signatures to PDF documents.
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Perhaps Dan Rather should look into a new service to be announced Tuesday by Adobe Systems. The company&#39;s Certified Document Service verifies the authenticity of documents saved in Adobe&#39;s PDF, or portable document format, by adding digital signatures.
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Adobe is readying Lightroom 1.1 and giving a sneak preview of some of its new features in a Photoshop CS3 plug-in.
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In a new post to his blog today, Mike Potter talks about the WebORB for PHP software and a new feature based on Adobe technology - a Flex-based console.   [It] includes a service browser, as well as a number of useful examples, showing both the client side code (in Flex) and server side code in PHP. The getting started guide (again, built into the console or available on the web) provides a good tutorial for creating your first WebORB powered application.   He likes the project overall, but notes a small issue he has with starting a new project - a prompt to use the Flex Data Services. Overall, though, he has high hopes for the future of the project.
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InfoWorld - Developers have high hopes for Adobe&#39;s newly named AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) software, but reservations remain about the technology&#39;s cross-platform capability and learning curve.
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(InfoWorld) - Adobe Systems has released a new version of its Reader 8 software that incorporates a link to Web conferencing software the company plans to release next month. Adobe Reader 8 is available for a free download on Adobe's Web site. The new version lets customers who have Adobe's Acrobat Professional software, used for making PDF (portable document format) files, to create forms that Reader 8 users can digitally sign. Reader 8 also has a button that launches Adobe's Acrobat Connect conferencing software, formerly known as Macromedia Breeze. AdobeÂ agreed to acquire MacromediaÂ in April 2005 for $3.4 billion in stock. Acrobat Connect, available now in a trial version , lets users create a Web address for a meeting room that's accessed through a Web browser running Adobe's Flash Player. Users have several collaboration tools, such as screen sharing, whiteboarding, chat, and video conferencing. Adobe offers two version of the software. The Connect hosted service can be used for up to 15 participants for $39 per month, or $395 per year per personal meeting room. Connect Professional, which starts at $15,000, supports up to 2,500 users at the same time plus interactive multimedia, integrated telephony, and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). Meetings can be recorded for on-demand viewing, among other advanced features.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Adobe Systems and Internet provider Yahoo! have announced a tie-up aimed at providing consumer services to Internet users. The two companies will introduce integrated products that feature Adobe services, increase the reach of Yahoo!
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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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Adobe on Monday introduced version 8 of its ubiquitous Acrobat PDF software as part of a minor update to its Creative Suite. The new release brings with it Web conferencing functionality incorporated from Macromedia Breeze.
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Blog: The web and the desktop are increasingly blurring, as Adobe's Apollo project demonstrates.  Unfortunately, open source licensing remains in beta while we're about to go into production....
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Adobe on Monday released the fourth beta of its Lightroom application for processing RAW files from digital cameras, unifying its Mac and Windows versions and rebranding the tool under Adobe's Photoshop lineup.
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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.??