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Converting PDF to plain text is nothing out of the ordinary. You just select the paragraph, right-click it, choose “copy” function and then paste everything in the clipboard in a Notepad document. It is just a matter of copy-paste basic in all operating systems.The only problem is the formatting of the te... |
5 November 2009
07:10 GMT |
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Scribd is trying to expand its revenue sources with a new partnership program with select online publications. The site, which allows users to host PDF and other documents and read them in the online viewer, says it has signed a deal with several partners to provide them with a branded reader to embed documents, whic... |
8 October 2009
10:20 GMT |
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Google understandably wants users to have a streamlined experience when using its search engine. While users spending more time on the site means potentially more money from the ads it serves, providing a seamless search experience will make them return a second time proving to be more financially wise in the long ru... |
8 October 2009
08:38 GMT |
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In the heterogeneous computing world of today, documents are encapsulated in a variety of formats, from the mundane PDF to the high-resolution tiffs needed in typography. To be able to view all of them you could use four or five different applications, or you could just employ Evince. GNOME users are probably well fa... |
30 September 2009
15:31 GMT |
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The Portable Document Format, or, shortly put, PDF, files are a document standard providing a secure and reliable way to distribute electronic documents. The beauty of the PDF documents consists of the fact that, with a professional instrument, you can set restrictions to a PDF document, so that the receiver is allow... |
15 September 2009
12:46 GMT |
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Updates issued by Apple almost always come with additional information posted on the Mac maker’s website, under the Support tab. This area is known as the “Support section,” where Mac users get detailed information on everything about their Apple products, including Macs, iPods, the iPhone, the soft... |
21 August 2009
06:06 GMT |
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Hamrick Software has released a new version of its scanning software application for Mac OS X, VueScan. Version 8.5.22 delivers improvements on the PDF compression front, as well as a couple of fixes. The update is free for all existing users, and a recommended one at that. According to the release notes for VueScan... |
5 August 2009
03:29 GMT |
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Sometimes, the things we take for granted or consider to be effortless in their making require great efforts or need astonishingly complex processes for a simple outcome. What is important is to have the right tools for the job you want to carry out, because owning the resources is not sufficient in most cases. A sim... |
22 June 2009
07:21 GMT |
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In the digital world, you can store and show off the photos you took with your own camera in many ways, both online and offline. From the storage facilities offered by numerous online services that enable you to make digital albums that are hosted on their servers to specialized software dedicated to creating arty im... |
3 June 2009
12:01 GMT |
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One of the ways to make sure that your work is protected is to use as a distribution mode the PDF format provided by Adobe, together with the security options it offers. And when I say security options, I mean setting a user and owner password or attaching a digital certificate – as always, good in theory, but ... |
8 May 2009
11:21 GMT |
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Over the years we experimented with various methods of writing and editing texts as well as storing them in a variety of formats. Nowadays there are many specialized formats we can use to save text or images or even both at the same time, perhaps the most common of them being Portable Document Format or, simply put, ... |
6 April 2009
11:21 GMT |
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The variety of digital formats we can use to store our information is continuously growing more abundant. Especially when it comes to dealing with text and visual data, either individually or at the same time, there are lots of documents we can opt for. Because many of them are specialized on a certain variety of inp... |
2 April 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Adobe Acrobat is not the only software that can create, convert and edit PDF files. Proof to this is Avanquest's new Expert PDF Pro application. It is designed to offer the user a different environment and enhanced usability for turning PDF files into Microsoft Word documents, edit them using cut/copy/paste func... |
23 February 2009
09:12 GMT |
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A new move from Adobe is designed to make PDF documents play nice with mobile devices. In this regard, at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Adobe introduced the Adobe Reader Mobile SDK, promising an evolved experience when it comes to the way in which mobile devices download, manage, and display PDF content. The softwa... |
16 February 2009
09:14 GMT |
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Just as Silverlight is Microsoft's alternative to Adobe Flash, so is XPS a format designed to rival PDF. On November 4, 2008, Microsoft made available for download an update to version 1.0 of the XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack, a package set up to enable Windows users to access, read and manage XPS file... |
5 November 2008
06:12 GMT |
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Even though Apple is making huge efforts to keep talks with third parties under wraps, the company's controversial iPhone Developer Agreement has been leaked on Wikileaks. The downloadable PDF reveals just how much of a burden Apple's NDA was to developers.Accompanying the PDF file is a summary of its conte... |
29 October 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Apple has posted and removed a PDF repair guide for its new MacBook and MacBook Pro, launching this month. The PDF guide contained instructions for qualified technicians to replace the display in “Late 2008″ MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks.Notice how we didn't use terms such as “probably,&rdq... |
13 October 2008
03:22 GMT |
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Everyone can agree on that Firefox 3 is off the charts, as far as coolness goes. There's even a new addition for Mac, a plug-in, which allows PDF-viewing right from within the browser. You can also save the PDF, if you wish, but the ability to view it in the web browser saves precious time, especially if you nee... |
19 June 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Apple has just released the "Security Configuration" (PDF) documentation for "Version 10.5 Leopard." The 250-page e-book contains an array of security tips to protect Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") clients. Mac owners can download the Leopard Security Doc right from HERE and start learning about the features in Mac OS X t... |
3 June 2008
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The free Acrobat.com online service suite provides web based applications and tools to manage and share documents and files. There are web conferences (communication in real time) and storage solutions available, as well as a word processor and an online PDF converter. The applications and tools contained in the su... |
2 June 2008
11:53 GMT |
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Microsoft has yet to wrap up with the distribution of Office 2007 SP1, and is already looking ahead to the next service pack, in a move designed to offer additional choices for end users but also to take interoperability to the next level, in terms of the company's flagship productivity suite. Office 2007 Servic... |
22 May 2008
07:18 GMT |
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Readdle has confirmed the upcoming release of a full featured book and document reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The app is said to run natively on firmware 2.0-enabled iPhones and Touches, enhancing the now-web-based service's functionality with seamless storage, page-by-page reading, bookmarks, and optimi... |
9 May 2008
07:15 GMT |
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In a rush to take over the market and become the biggest office applications suite there is on the Internet, the Google Docs team is pushing hard as if they had a deadline to make it all happen. Fortunately for us, there isn't one, or else all of the updates would probably make two or three things and break just... |
25 January 2008
02:41 GMT |
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Yahoo is probably trying to prove something, because it has picked up its advertising platform that has lied pretty dormant in the last period and it has taken it to the spa and to the beauty parlor.With the latest announcement, Adobe and Yahoo confirmed the rumors that had been circulating that they are to get to be... |
29 November 2007
05:30 GMT |
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They said PDF spam war was over. It was even thought that using PDF files is not a risky activity anymore. However, it seems that everything that you've heard is false. SecureWorks and F-Secure, two of the top security companies on the web, discovered a new impressive assault of the PDF spam which seems to come ... |
29 October 2007
07:07 GMT |
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The recently reported flaws discovered in Reader and Acrobat tools urged Adobe, the developer of the vulnerable solutions, to release patches in order to protect the customers of the company. If you haven't read the advisories, you should know the holes affected Windows XP users with Internet Explorer 7 installe... |
23 October 2007
05:20 GMT |
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Ladies and Gentlemen… a heavy round of applauds for the winner of the prize of "Best Spam"! I know it may seem early to already give out this prize, but based on a research by Marshal experts I have to hand it to PDF spam. And let me tell you why - as the study shows us, the ratio of e-mails containing attachments ha... |
9 October 2007
09:57 GMT |
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I wrote a hot material a couple of weeks ago, about the fact that Petko D. Petkov of GNUcitizen had discovered serious vulnerabilities caused by opening PDF files. Hackers exploiting those could have screwed up (for good) the Windows box. He didn't give us the proof of concept, in fear hackers will use it and th... |
9 October 2007
04:47 GMT |
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This piece of news just came in! It's as critical as it can get! GNUCitizen has disclosed a severe issue with PDF documents. It is so bad that they haven't posted a proof of concept on the site, for fear of hackers. Do not open any PDF file because these documents can be used to compromise your Windows box,... |
21 September 2007
05:08 GMT |
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PGP, which specializes in enterprise data protection, announced yesterday a variety of solutions that enable organizations to communicate in a secure way on the "wild wild web". PGP Universal Gateway Email now features a whole new range of tools - dubbed "Secure Delivery" - that help security, which provide the user... |
13 September 2007
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I knew that being a sloth will do me good some day. Apparently, that's the way many more users think since - according to a research done by Sophos - laziness seems to have killed the PDF spam phenomenon. As I've seen on their site, there has been a dramatic decrease in the amount of spam e-mail using PDF f... |
29 August 2007
07:43 GMT |
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Office Open XML, the default document format of the Office 2007 System, is leading the adoption of XML-based standards in both Europe and the United States, according to an IDC survey commissioned by Microsoft. The Redmond company applauded the fact that Open XML is the dominant XML standard taking the wind out of Op... |
28 August 2007
04:13 GMT |
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Google Pack is a free collection of utilities powered by numerous software companies and bundled into a single archive distributed by Google. Despite the products created by the Mountain View company, there are also several applications that should be installed on a computer in order to have anything you need. For ex... |
27 July 2007
04:28 GMT |
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The new interface of Google Analytics, one of the most popular tools for the webmasters, has some hidden goodies that can be used by many of you in order to maximize the utility's efficiency. As you probably know, the latest update over the Analytics solution bundled an impressive number of functions and new fea... |
17 July 2007
16:36 GMT |
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Develop Magazine, well known as the only European monthly print publication aimed exclusively at the development community, has just unveiled a brand new website, located here. The official report informs that it'll quickly become the only online destination for anyone involved in the creation, commissioning and... |
17 July 2007
06:28 GMT |
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Following the intense efforts to establish the Open XML file format as an international standard, and to directly rival OpenOffice's Open Document Format, Microsoft has debuted an initiative designed to take the XML Paper Specification (XPS) through the same process and offer an alternative to Adobe's Porta... |
2 July 2007
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A very dangerous spam campaign is currently in progress as security company Sophos discovered a considerable amount of unwanted messages sent to German Internet users. According to Sophos, the unsolicited emails are containing an attached PDF file named sexy_ganja_report.pdf that encourages users to invest in a compa... |
22 June 2007
04:56 GMT |
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The Patent Search technology owned by Google was improved with a pretty useful function that allows users to download a certain patent in PDF format. Until you, you were able to view a patent only on the search results page without having the possibility to download and view it in offline mode. As blogger Ionut Alex ... |
24 May 2007
06:11 GMT |
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P3Zine has a good rep among the best videogames magazines, with exclusive screens and coverage of PS3 titles. Although Sony's console doesn't sport many titles so far, some of them do deserve publicity. One of those titles is Colin McRae: DiRT for PS3. Issue 3 of PS3Zine is pushing the boundaries of digital... |
21 May 2007
06:54 GMT |
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According to a press release, Norway has decided to make the government use of ODF (respectively PDF) mandatory. This recommendation was first made by the Minister of Renewal Heidi Grande Roys, on behalf of the Cabinet-appointed Norwegian Standards Council and implies the use of the two formats in all agencies and se... |
15 May 2007
15:35 GMT |
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