June 15, 2009
Posted by Erik Larson at 12:01 AM
Today we take a big step towards realizing our vision of a new way to work on Acrobat.com.
Today we end the public beta for Acrobat.com. We launch Acrobat.com Premium subscriptions for more intensive business use (yes, the free version of the service is still available, and still free :-). And we give a look into the future of Acrobat.com for the coming year, starting with the unveiling of our spreadsheet product, Acrobat.com Tables, on our Labs website. Lots of news! Oh, plus two weeks ago we released Acrobat.com Presentations.
We're busy because our customers are busy.
Continue reading "Hello (Business) World - Welcome to a New Way to Work" »
April 10, 2009
Posted by Julien Levadoux at 3:44 PM
NEW FEATURES IN CONNECTNOW
We receive a lot of good suggestions for new features from our users on a daily basis through our ideas web site & our forum, and it's always very exciting when we get a chance to implement one of those ideas.
This week, we released a new version of ConnectNow and we were able to make the following two new features available to all of you:
Application / Window Screen Sharing
Requests for this feature from our users: Link to the idea on our ideas site & Link 1, Link2, Link3, Link4 on our forum.
Continue reading "Feedback Matters: New Features in ConnectNow" »
March 23, 2009
Posted by Lisa Underkoffler at 6:19 AM
From wikipedia:
"The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations ... is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group."
The Acrobat.com Ideas site (http://ideas.acrobat.com) is available now for YOUR ideas, your comments and, very importantly, your VOTES. This is an experiment for us: a new way of gathering ideas, getting feedback on the ideas, and letting you tell us which are the ideas most important to you. Will this be effective? Inspirational? Yes. Absolutely. Please help us explore by adding your ideas. And vote early and often.
Continue reading "The Wisdom of Crowds" »
March 16, 2009
Posted by Mangesh Bhandarkar at 2:51 PM
You have to send a sales proposal to a client to meet a deadline. You do all the work, compile all the necessary documents together and package them up and send it via e-mail well before the set deadline. However unbeknownst to you, your recipients e-mail server limits the size of e-mail attachments and your attachments is removed by the server. All your hard work does not make it to the intended recipients and as a result you miss the deadline.
Is this scenario familiar?
Good News! Acrobat.com now provides a Plugin for Microsoft Outlook 2007 for easily, securely and reliably sharing documents from your desktop e-mail client by making it as easy as adding an attachment. Try it for yourself.
Continue reading "File Sharing from Microsoft Outlook® 2007" »
March 11, 2009
Posted by Lisa Underkoffler at 11:31 AM
The Latest Release of Buzzword - Check It Out!
The Buzzword team is excited about our latest release. There are some terrific new features that many of you have requested - seeing the differences between versions of a document, justified text, and the ability to export to EPUB, for eBook publishing to devices like the iPhone with Stanza, Sony Reader and Adobe Digital Editions! And for our Macintosh users, there's support for Safari 4 (beta.) Read more about this release via a Buzzword Open Access document. There's no need to sign in to Buzzword (or even to have an account, for that matter) to read the document. So, feel free to pass the link along to colleagues and friends.
Continue reading "What's the Diff?" »
February 16, 2009
Posted by Karen Tomlinson at 5:53 PM
Screen sharing is one of the most, if not the most, important features of online meetings and something we continue to improve upon. We are excited to share with you the following ConnectNow screen sharing enhancements we've made based on your feedback.
Faster Screen Sharing. Some of you told us you were experiencing screen sharing delays when sharing with lower bandwidth or slow Internet connections. To improve the performance of screen sharing in these circumstances, we tuned our screen sharing algorithm so it transmits data more efficiently. The first time you enter your meeting room you will be asked to download the new add-in with improved screen sharing. You now have the option to optimize screen sharing for faster performance or for higher quality, with the default set to faster performance. You can change your screen sharing setting to higher quality by going to the meeting menu, selecting preferences, then screen share, then enable "high fidelity".
Continue reading "Faster, Better Screen Sharing - ConnectNow!" »
December 7, 2008
Posted by Lisa Underkoffler at 4:30 PM
The Buzzword team updated our servers today with our 14th release. And, the theme of this version is Easier Document Sharing.
We get a lot of feedback from our users, and at the top of the list has been the request to make our document sharing easier, and more public. So we've tackled both problems. Now it's not only easier to share documents with teams but also publish to the whole world.
Here's a sample (this blog entry) as a Buzzword open access document.
Continue reading "14 and Counting - New Release! New Stuff!" »
July 18, 2008
Posted by Tad Staley at 6:27 AM
[Today's post is authored by Andrew Greene, the developer responsible for bringing a host of new languages to Buzzword.]
We at Buzzword have always realized that the first two “W”s in www stand for “world-wide,” and we’ve been looking forward to the day when we could provide spell-checking in languages other than the dialect of English used here in the U.S.
One of the advantages of being a part of Adobe is access to a lot of world-class resources, including the spelling dictionaries that Adobe has licensed for use in our desktop products. With this week’s upgrade to Buzzword, we are pleased to respond to the many requests you’ve sent in asking for spell-checking in more languages.
Continue reading "Introducing: Spell Checking in More Languages" »
July 15, 2008
Posted by Tad Staley at 11:18 AM
The Buzzword team has delivered again - a mere six weeks after our last version, which appeared as part of the Acrobat.com launch in early June. We're very excited to be back in regular release cycles, and we have lots of great features planned (see Lisa's recent blog post for specifics).
This new release (our 10th in 14 months) has a few very important new capabilities, designed to broaden our appeal globally and to make it even easier to share documents.
Continue reading "Another Buzzword Version Launched" »
July 14, 2008
Posted by Mangesh Bhandarkar at 8:00 AM
Last week Adobe announced the availability of Adobe Reader 9. This new version of Reader has several exciting new features and capabilities. Steve Gottwals, product manager for Adobe Reader, did an extensive review of the new features of Reader 9 in his blog entry. From the Adobe website you can download a copy of Adobe Reader 9.0 now.
Adobe Reader 9 provides many simple ways to work with Acrobat.com. It includes the Acrobat.com desktop application built on the Adobe AIR technology. The Acrobat.com desktop application provides an easy way of interacting with Acrobat.com by dragging and dropping files and folders from your local computer directly into your Acrobat.com account, and browsing, previewing, sharing or publishing files directly from your desktop computer. The application can be minimized to a widget on your desktop providing one-click access to the Acrobat.com services.
Continue reading "Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat.com" »
June 19, 2008
Posted by Lisa Underkoffler at 7:31 AM
ﾠThe Web is a wonderful place; it never stops. Buzzword continues to do frequent releases. The challenge is to keep up with the many and varied requests we receive. The team truly likes to hear from our users - your comments and ideas keep us focused on what's important and give us new points of view.
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Buzzword has come a long way since we first launched the Preview. And there's still a lot we want to do. Here's a look at some of the features that are on the drawing board - some are ideas that came from many of you (thank you!)
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More writing tools:
* As one user wrote to us, "Named styles, named styles, named styles." This is one of the most frequently requested features and it is high on our enhancement list
* Tools to track changes made by each co-author
* Justified text, in addition to left, right and centered text
* Import and export of Open Document format (ODT)
* More fonts (please see the posting on why there is a small number of fonts in Buzzword)
* Table enhancements - merged cells, more formatting options
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Organizing your documents:
* Folders for grouping and organizing your documents
* Tagging documents for search
* Search within the organizerﾠ
And more:
* Spell check dictionaries for languages other than US English
* An off-line version of Buzzword
* and many, many more smaller enhancements
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The Buzzword team has been releasing new features on a regular basis since our debut last summer. Our users get the benefit of new functionality as it's ready. Each time you sign in to Buzzword, the latest and greatest is there - no installations, no upgrades, it just works.ﾠ
Please, keep the dialog going. Tell us what you need and what you think would make Buzzword a better solution for your work. The Buzzword forum is open!
March 25, 2008
Posted by Mangesh Bhandarkar at 2:37 PM
It has been a really long time since we last spoke to you. The Share team has been busy adding new features and improving performance of Share Beta. And today we released a new version of Share with a whole host of new features.
The first thing you will notice when you login to the Share Beta service is the new button bar at the top.
We have eliminated the Home tab which was in the previous version of the service to give more focus to your documents in the Share library. The three buttons are the primary tasks supported by the Share service: Uploading files, Sharing files and Converting Files to PDFs. Yes, creating PDFs!ﾠ
Now you can convert documents to Adobe PDF using Share! Adobe PDF is the de facto standard for more secure, dependable electronic information exchange — recognized by industries and governments around the world. By converting your files to Adobe PDF you can ensure that recipients will be able to view your files regardless of platform and application availability. To convert a file to PDF simply select the file from your desktop or by dragging-and-dropping a file already in your Share library.
Once the PDF conversion is completed you can directly Share the converted file or copy the URL or copy the embed code for the file. Share supports converting to PDF all the popular formats including: Microsoft Office files, Open Office files, text files, images and postscript files.
Continue reading "Creating PDFs, Previewing Office Files and many more new features..." »
October 25, 2007
Posted by Mangesh Bhandarkar at 8:53 AM
It has been a couple of weeks since we last spoke to you. Thank you all for using the service and providing valuable feedback. Since the last time, we have updated the Share Beta service with a few enhancements and bug fixes. In particular the embedded previewer now allows embedding of image files (including jpeg, gif, png) on websites, wikis or blogs.
In addition we are also adding a full page toggle mode for the embedded previewer and other UI controls like zoom-in and scroll based on your feedback. These are particularly important when reading embedded documents.
A couple of features that the team is working on are:
- Adding the ability to convert documents to PDF (including Microsoft Office files, ODF, etc.)
- Easily searching and finding documents using the document properties and content.
More on these and additional features later...
Enjoy Share..