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Adobe unveils Reader 9 with Flash

// July 3rd, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology News

Adobe released on Tuesday the first Reader application to bake movies and animation into the Portable Document Format. With Adobe Reader 9, users can play Flash movies, Shockwave animation, and other rich media content without needing to open a third-party player. PDFs are reaching new levels of interactivity with this release. Past versions of the nearly ubiquitous and free application, by contrast, have enabled dynamic forms but served largely to open print-ready PDFs. (more…)

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Uncloaking ‘invisible’ Flash Web content

// July 3rd, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology News

Adobe announced late Monday night that it was providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo to help them better index dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications that include the Shockwave Flash file (SWF) format. It sounds exciting, but what exactly does it mean for Web searchers, Webmasters, and Flash creators? CNET News.com asked Adobe, Google, and Yahoo and got some answers. (more…)

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Adobe Director 11 Review

// July 3rd, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology News

Adobe Director multimedia authoring software, which gained popularity during the CD-ROM era of the 90s, has released its first upgrade since Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005. The last significant upgrade for Director was in 2001, with the 8.5 version. Many developers began using Director at that time, as an introduction to 3D applications. While quite a few other 3D tools have hit the scene, many still find that Director is the most useful to them. (more…)

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Adobe offers sneak peek of CS4 apps

// July 2nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Technology News

Adobe Systems is offering two-day trials of three beta applications from its next Creative Suite package. The previews of Dreamweaver for Web design, Fireworks for image editing, and Soundbooth for audio editing became available Monday. Trials expire after 48 hours for most people, but registered CS3 users get to keep using the CS4 betas until the final applications replace them.  Adobe hasn’t publicly confirmed its planned shipping date or the name for the next Creative Suite, which we’re nicknaming CS4. Adobe Creative Suite 3 was released in March 2007. (more…)

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