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May 14, 2008

Flash and Advertising

Some concerns have been raised lately regarding malicious ads using Flash. The good news is there are already mechanisms in the Flash Player to effectively address these concerns. I am simplifying here, but there are two main goals for web-based...

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Posted to State of Security
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Eureka Like Metadata

Something is starting to smell... like success. I read Joseph Bachana's article over at CMS Watch on Innovations in DAM, Circa 2008 - His view is that XMP is starting to take off driven by customer demand."Ever since the XMP...

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Posted to From Gunar
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AEC - Voice of Customer eSeminar 5/21/08!

This is an eSeminar that you don't want to miss!  You have heard about all the great functionality we have put into Adobe Acrobat to address the needs of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry, now it is your...

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May 13, 2008

Release now available

The initial release of my benchmark is available now from http://stlab.adobe.com/performance/....

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Posted to C++ Performance
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Digital Editions 1.5 Released!

Digital Editions 1.5 now released (May 14, 2008) Adobe has updated its popular Digital Editions software, a lightweight, rich Internet application for reading, acquiring and organizing digital books and other publications. Version 1.5 features enhanced DRM flexibility through named activation...

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Q3 CSBU Developer Update

Get out your pencils and calendars. We've scheduled the next Creative Suite developer update for August 7th, 9:00 am PST....

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Welcome to Pacifica

Yay, we have a team blog! Check back soon to read the latest news from our engineering team. Meanwhile, take a look at our original Blogger blog. If you have a question or concern, please visit our page at Get...

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eSeminar Q&A

RJ Jacquez, our Sr. Product Evangelist, has presented today's eseminar Interactivity in Virtual Classrooms where he showed Adobe Captivate, publishing to a Connect server, creating a curriculum, and using Adobe Captivate content in a live virtual classroom (our seminar...

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FrameMaker 8.0.3 Available!

Technical Communication: FrameMaker Archives,FrameMaker,DocTrain,Technical Communication,XML authoring,PDF,CMS,conref,MIF,cross-reference,WebDav,STC,Publishing,Patch,p273   We heard!           We worked!           We fixed!   Hello everyone I am just back...

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Tuto 15mins: Flex et LiveCycle ES

EDIT: Le blog a été déplacé: http://codemoiunmouton.wordpress.com/ EDIT: The blog moved to: http://codemoiunmouton.wordpress.com/ J’ai enregistré un tutoriel vidéo qui présente comment réaliser une application Flex qui communique avec un processus LiveCycle ES de génération de PDF. Dans cet exemple, je...

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Open Screen Project

EDIT: Le blog a été déplacé: http://codemoiunmouton.wordpress.com/ EDIT: The blog moved to: http://codemoiunmouton.wordpress.com/ Adobe continue sa politique d’ouverture Open Source et annonce aujourd’hui l’Open Screen Project avec le support de grands acteurs du marché de la mobilité. Les prochaines versions...

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Posted to Code moi un mouton
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Ressources graphiques pour vos RIA

EDIT: Le blog a été déplacé à cette URL: http://codemoiunmouton.wordpress.com/ EDIT: The blog moved to: http://codemoiunmouton.wordpress.com/ Je développe souvent des prototypes Flex & AIR pour nos clients en phase d’avant-vente. C’est un processus de développement où le temps est compté,...

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Posted to Code moi un mouton
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DNG codec for Vista available; DNG spec updated

Adobe has posted release candidate (i.e. feature-complete beta) of the Adobe DNG Codec for Microsoft Vista.  This free download enables Vista users to view DNG files in the Windows Explorer and Photo Gallery.   The posting coincides with the...

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May 12, 2008

DNG Specification and Vista DNG Codec

The DNG Specification has been revised and the version number incremented from 1.1.0.0 to 1.2.0.0. This is not an area of frequent change given that the format has done a good job of addressing the progress of raw formats over...

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Posted to Lightroom Journal
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Adobe Web Meeting, e-Learning and Education (TC)

Here're three presentation (Traditional Chinese). We run these seminars at Apr 23, Apr 25 and May 9 in Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung. Adobe Education 2008(presentation) Connect for e-Learning (presentation) by Captivate, Presenter, Connect Connect for Web Meeting (presentation) Presenter (demo) Captivate...

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Posted to Joseph Lee
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I say "Adobe" you say...

...what, exactly?  That's what Noah Brier's fun Brand Tags project asks, and here's what people have said so far.  It's kind of fun to read the small print, too: "arcane awesome bastards... stucco structure... techy teepee telefónica terrorists..."  (Too...

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Posted to John Nack on Adobe
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InDesign CS3樣式排版線上研討會

上週三舉辦了第一次的InDesign線上研討會,利用Adobe 的遠距會議軟體Connect Pro 讓報名的朋友登入,而我在Adobe台北辦公室將簡報及Live Demo傳送到美國的server上,當天的主題是InDesignCS3的樣式排版應用,詳細議程如下:...

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Halfway there

I have to mention this don't I....... He's the Guv'nor And these are the chaps!...

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Posted to Spartacus of Acrobat
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What happened at the Creative Suite Developer Summit

The Adobe Creative Suite Developer Summit hosted 150 developers from around the world. Everyone attending (in person) received a copy of Flexbuilder 3, some great books, and lots of pre-release info about the Creative Suite. It was great - did...

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Acrobat 3D Contest winners

I mean't to post this a while ago, sorry for tardiness. Hit this link to check out the list of winners in the recent Acrobat 3D PDF contest http://www.acrobatusers.com/contests/?msglink=75 You can then download and explore some of the winning entries...

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Posted to Spartacus of Acrobat
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Who builds Photoshop, and the frequency of updates

Via Daring Fireball I caught this little blurb from Panic's Cabel Sasser:   A company like Adobe, which has hundreds of engineers working on Photoshop, releases ONE version every two or three years, and maybe a single bug fix...

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Posted to John Nack on Adobe
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We'll always need browsing

Infoworld has an article and editorial suggesting that the arrival of beyond-the-browser technologies like the Adobe Integrated Runtime "spell doom for the web browser". No way. We definitely need to be able to read the web -- to click from...

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Economics of Trust and Permanent Metadata

Recently, there have been some great concern regarding Orphan Works legislation within the photography community. There is a lot FUD going around and attempts to address it - some of these discussion ultimately come down to the need for "permanent...

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Posted to From Gunar
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May 11, 2008

AIR's Unrestricted System Access Warning

If you've ever installed an Adobe AIR-based application--you have installed one, right?--then you've probably noticed the installation screen warning that the application you're installing will have unrestricted system access. I'm frequently asked by developers how they can get rid of...

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Posted to Pursuit of Simplicity
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Using AIR for XSLT Processing

air xslt One of the features we're investigating for the next version of the media player requires that we be able to do client-side XSL transformations.  I had heard a few rumors that AIR exposes the XSLT processor that's built...

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Posted to Brian Riggs
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New Episode of "Short & Suite" on AdobeTV!

Hey everyone! Just a quick update to let you know that a new episode of my Adobe TV series, "Short & Suite" has been posted! This time around, you'll see me and Karl Soule talk about the making (and re-making)...

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Opening Credits

Here's my intro, short and sweet.  My name is Brian Riggs, and I'm the lead engineer for the Adobe Media Player project.  For the last year and a half, our team has been heads-down on development, but now that...

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May 10, 2008

Calef Brown rocks

Having a wee man in the house certainly cuts into the time I'd otherwise put into scouring the Web for good bits to share; hence the dearth of illustration, photography, and type links lately.  On the other hand, it...

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Posted to John Nack on Adobe
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Photoshop Express now does Flickr

Woot, there it is!  The subject line pretty much says it all: you can now browse and edit your photos stored on Flickr right from within Photoshop Express.  I've just given the integration a whirl and, yep, it works...

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May 09, 2008

These Stamps Are All Sticky!

I recently wrote an article on creating custom sticky notes by using Custom Stamps in Acrobat. You should check it out. It was a good one. Or so my mother told me. Anyway, just today someone asked me the question...

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