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Adobe Systems Inc. by the end of the year will release version 7.0 of its Acrobat products, including a new free Acrobat Reader that now includes reviewing capabilities, the company announced Monday.

With the updates, San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe is underscoring its focus on workgroups and document management. The client products all tie in to the company’s Intelligent Document Platform, a set of elements Adobe wants to use to make PDF (Portable Document Format) with XML (Extensible Markup Language) additions a common way to get data in and out of enterprise systems.

Acrobat 7.0 Professional users can create PDF (Portable Document Format) files and allow those to be reviewed and commented on by Acrobat Reader 7.0 users. The reader features a new reviewing toolbar that can be enabled when the PDF file is created in Acrobat Professional, according to Adobe.

Acrobat 7.0 Standard and Professional will be available in English, French, German and Japanese by the end of the year for Mac OS X and Windows.

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News source : MacCentral

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SAN FRANCISCO - After two decades of touting its Macintosh as a superior alternative to PCs based on Intel Corp. chips and Microsoft Corp. software, Apple Computer Inc. announced plans to switch the Mac to the same Intel chips that have powered Windows-based machines for years.The deal, which has long been rumored, will help Apple better compete with the performance - and potentially the price - of Windows PCs. Still, Apple will continue to build its own computers and says it won’t be licensing its software to other PC vendors.

Speaking to thousands of software developers Monday at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the move was driven by the fact that its current chip suppliers - IBM Corp. and Freescale Semiconductor Inc., the former semiconductor unit of Motorola - could not promise the same horsepower and power efficiency as Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor company.

Intel, on the other hand, has plans to make its chips more powerful without dramatically increasing electricity demands. That’s critically important for notebook computers, which now rival desktops in U.S. sales

Jobs revealed that Apple has been working on the move for at least five years, creating two versions of its Mac OS X operating system for both the current Mac chips and those built by Intel. He said the transition will start by mid-2006, with the entire Mac product line switched by the end of 2007.

Calming fears that Apple’s switch would ignite a revolt among its most important software programmers, Jobs was joined on stage by two major developers - Adobe Systems Inc. and Microsoft. Both announced that they would support Macs running the existing and new hardware.

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Adobe Systems Inc. on Wednesday announced it is shipping its Creative Suite 2 software.

The new Premium Edition collection includes Adobe Photoshop CS2, InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2 and GoLive CS2, with Version Cue CS2, along with Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional and Adobe Bridge.Unveiled earlier this month, Adobe Creative Suite 2 focuses on integration between Adobe’s various applications for creative professionals.

Adobe Bridge is a visual file browser developed to let CS2 users browse, organize and process design assets within each Creative Suite 2 application.

Estimated street price is US$1,199 for the Premium Edition and $899 for the Standard Edition (which leaves out GoLive and Acrobat 7.0 Professional). Source : Adobe Creative Suite 2 Home

Adobe Systems Inc. by the end of the year will release version 7.0 of its Acrobat products, including a new free Acrobat Reader that now includes reviewing capabilities, the company announced Monday.

With the updates, San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe is underscoring its focus on workgroups and document management. The client products all tie in to the company’s Intelligent Document Platform, a set of elements Adobe wants to use to make PDF (Portable Document Format) with XML (Extensible Markup Language) additions a common way to get data in and out of enterprise systems.

Acrobat 7.0 Professional users can create PDF (Portable Document Format) files and allow those to be reviewed and commented on by Acrobat Reader 7.0 users. The reader features a new reviewing toolbar that can be enabled when the PDF file is created in Acrobat Professional, according to Adobe.

Acrobat 7.0 Standard and Professional will be available in English, French, German and Japanese by the end of the year for Mac OS X and Windows.

MoreInfo…

News source : MacCentral

Adobe Systems Inc. has completed tests on product activation, and plans to roll out the technology soon.

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It has since been included in Office XP as well as Windows XP.

The technique is used to prevent revenue loss due to piracy. The Business Software Alliance, of which Adobe is a member, has estimated that annually, billions of dollars have been lost as a result of people passing copies of program disks around to friends.

Adobe’s software has in the past been protected by a serial number, which the user had to type into the installation program. But licence keys have been posted in many Usenet news groups, and “key generators” 脙垄芒鈥毬⑩偓聺 software that can generate a working serial number for a given program 脙垄芒鈥毬⑩偓聺 are also becoming popular.

Embedded activation elements been recently been added to software that requires consumers to register their programs upon installation.

Embedded technology also limits the number of times a single software copy can be loaded onto a desktop or laptop.

Adobe test run was done in Australia on Photoshop 7.0.

Source : Globetechnology