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PDF Update: Foxit comes to Android devices

In this PDF update, we find the release of a PDF creation and editing application for Android mobile devices, and an update to a .NET component for reading and manipulating PDF documents.

December 06, 2011
PDF In-Depth

Possible alternative to Acrobat for Mac users

Learning how to manipulate PDFs is critical if you want to efficiently capture and process digital information. Acrobat is the most obvious tool for the job, but the story is a bit more complicated for Mac users. If you don't need all of its features, Acrobat Pro is somewhat pricey, and Acrobat Standard is unavailable for Mac systems. PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson makes a case for his preferred Mac-based Acrobat alternative.

EDITORIAL: The next "PDF-killer"

The release of the new Computable Document Format (CDF) has been reported by some as ringing the death-knell of PDF. In this article, Dan Shea talks about the strengths, obstacles and possibilities for the new "PDF-killer".

EDITORIAL: Control versus convenience with eBooks

There has been a lot said, printed, blogged and tweeted about eBooks over the years, both good and bad. Recently, the main focus of this discussion has been the issue of copyright, along with its close companions, document security and piracy. In this article, Dan Shea takes a trip down memory lane and outlines his position of cautious optimism about the future of eBooks.

Raising the bar

Frank Rem from TallComponents writes about his experiences with PDF forms. Specifically, he sought to include a QR barcode on a PDF form, and to have it dynamically updated with the value of another form field. This article chronicles his trial and error efforts to accomplish this task in Acrobat.

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PDF Tips and Tricks

Bates-stamping over several sessions

Bates-stamping is important if you want to keep track of documents you produce. If you don't have all of the documents ready at the same time, you'll need to conduct several production runs. In this article, PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson discusses the related issues and suggests one way to accomplish Bates-stamping over multiple sessions.

Searching for PDFs on the web

Given the sheer amount of content on the web these days, it can be useful to filter results based on file format. In this PDF article, Dan Shea has a quick look at a recently released PDF-only search engine, explains how to find PDFs quickly using Google, and briefly compares the two.

Best Acrobat keyboard shortcuts -- a handy list

Acrobat is a powerful program with a lot of features. Unfortunately, this can mean that it can also take a little while to find the features that you want via the classic mouse-based approach. To help users get the most out of Acrobat, PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson has made a list of his favorite keyboard shortcuts -- downloadable as a PDF, of course.

Problem when printing PDF and page comes out grey?

After a question from one of his readers, PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson seeks to resolve what seems to be a common problem with printing PDF documents and having them improperly come out gray. He explores the issue in this article.

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PDF News

PDF Connoisseur for iPad released

PDF Connoisseur for iPad is aimed squarely at business users with a lot of reading to get through. The Kdan Mobile app lets readers save big lists in several file formats to PDF, then access them later in text or audio.

December 06, 2011

Multilizer updates PDF Translator

Multilizer Software Solutions has released a new version of its professional tool, PDF Translator. This most recent release offers easy post-editing in Word and OpenOffice.

December 06, 2011

PDF Update: Foxit comes to Android devices

In this PDF update, we find the release of a PDF creation and editing application for Android mobile devices, and an update to a .NET component for reading and manipulating PDF documents.

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December 06, 2011

iStonsoft releases PDF to ePub Converter for Mac

iStonsoft has announced the release of PDF to ePub Converter for Mac, its software allowing Mac users to convert their PDFs into EPUB files.

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