I'm back in the office for a big part of July. We're gearing up for a bunch of video production for new episodes of Short & Suite, and I'll also be conducting a series of online training classes on Production...

When encoding ActionScript objects to XML using a schema, such as when using a SOAP based WebService, it is not uncommon to provide a subtype (say, an Employee class) to an API that merely specifies a base type (say,...

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This is your PM... This is your PM after being busted following an all-night meth bender...   Lightroom team member Kelly Castro has been continuing his "Exteriors" project (see the whole collection), photographing people at Adobe & elsewhere.  On...

Adobe has posted Beta 2 of the upcoming Flash Player 10 to Adobe Labs.  Player engineer Tinic Uro shares some notes, pointing out that on Mac OS X this new build runs the GUIMark test suite some 3x faster...

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes.html#features_ocre See "Limited Fullscreen Keyboard Access" I've been wanting this feature in for the longest time... and now it's in the flash player (currently in beta). Basically now you can create Flash games that go in full screen mode and...

Alistair Lee (Thank you!) Connect Product Marketing Manager has posted a video on YouTube providing brief overview of Adobe Presenter 7 You can also find video overview of other Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro offerings Connect Pro Training Connect Pro...

LiveCycle Rights Management can help you maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information by protecting files against unauthorized access. You can also monitor each recipient's use of the protected information, including when and how often the file is accessed, through...

Hi, We're the team of LiveCycle ES tech writers, and we've created this blog to keep you up to date with news about LiveCycle ES resources. We'll be posting news about product documentation, Knowledge Base articles, new tutorials....we'll also provide...

There are a few Flex Camp events coming up that you should know about. The first is in Michigan, where the Flex user group is organizing a two day Flex Camp event with a hands on Flex training event for the second day. The event starts at 9:00 AM on Wednesday July 30th, and ends at 12 Noon on Thursday July 31st. Registration is $25 for one day, or $40 for both days. Registration is limited to 150 people, so you'll want to register soon. There's also a Flex Camp event happening in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on August 21st, from 5:30 - 9:30 PM. There are 3 presentations from local Ottawa companies, and 3 demos from companies using Flex. Again, registration is limited, so you'll want to register for Flex Camp Ottawa. (Its free!) If you're interested in hosting your...

Hiya, so, Reader 9 is available for free download from Adobe.com well the actual url is.... http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html You'll see the page looks like this...... I'm sure I'll get comments on the size of Reader 9, someone will mention the word...

As you are probably aware, Adobe Reader 9 is now available on the download site. You can find out more about Adobe Reader 9 here: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/features/. If you are looking for reasons to upgrade, then start here: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/reasons_to_upgrade/and for general...

This Asia trip that I am doing together with Greg and Jason is truly inspiring. Yesterday we did our Masters show in Taipei, flew to Hong Kong in the evening and performed again today. It is truly amazing that hundreds,...

This is totally Adobecadabra material! Kush Amerasinghe has a new episode on Adobe TV that shows you how the virtual set in Caffè Fibonacci works [link to show]. Awesome stuff! I am glad that he chose to investigate that matter...

Our friend Scott Kelby has been posting some interesting surveys to determine what his readers would like to see in future versions of Photoshop.  Now I've replied to some of those thoughts in a guest blog post on his...

Turkish localization at last! And some feature called 'wmode' that a few people requested...

After Effects can do just about anything - trust me, I've seen talented people do it.  However, for mere mortals like myself, I know that I have a few tools in my toolbox that I can use to create a...

Hello, my friends. Yet another quick update from the road. In the last 48 hours, Greg, Rufus & I have presented to around 1700+ people in both Taipei and Hong Kong, and the CS3 love continues throughout Asia. The crowds...

The new Reader is here... ...and that means I can start posting my cool new samples. In the example below I've placed a chart (created in Adobe Flex 3) on a PDF page that contains Acrobat Form fields in...

Mark Prensky, you certainly do make me think. But the more I consider your ideas the more I need to pose a question – are these truly digital natives, or just over-entitled, overly entertained kids with digital toys? The question...

Adobe Reader 9 is now freely available from Adobe.com. It is currently available in English, French, German, and Japanese for Windows (2000 SP4 and higher) or Mac OS X (10.4.11 and higher). Get a copy, and then download these...

Good news. Adobe Reader 9 is now available for download from the Adobe website. You can download it for your version of Windows (2000 SP4 or higher) or Mac OS X (10.4.11 or higher) from here....

Now that the source for the Flex SDK has been available for 3 months I've already seen plenty of folks taking advantage and building cool projects. But I believe there are probably plenty of people who would like to make some contributions and don't know where to start. JIRA to the rescue! We've set up a list of bugs that we think are perfect candidates for folks from the community to look into, just go find a bug that looks interesting and start fixing (put a comment in the bug to say you're looking into it). Additionally we've got a little incentive program going! For every 3 patches that we accept, we'll buy an Adobe-related book for you off of your Amazon wish list. And for the first two people who submit 10 patches that we accept, we're going to...

Based on what we're seeing in our incoming crash logs, it appears that 10.5.4 has solved the NavServices crash problems. We’re also noticing, however, that some users are still hitting a problem that was introduced by a VersionCue 3.1...

In case you missed it, last week, Adobe announced Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 which integrates the newly announced Acrobat 9 Pro into the Premium and Standard editions of the Design and Web Suites, as well as the Adobe Creative Suite...

Many times I’ve seen a link to a PDF document and thought that maybe it contained the information I needed but I didn’t want to wait for the download, or worse yet… I wait for the download and then the...

Yesterday Karen Tomlinson, our ConnectNow product manager, wrote an excellent post on the functionality and value of our new web conferencing application. Today, Karen followed up by delivering our weekly seminar - again, focused on ConnectNow. For those interested who...

Today, we are happy to announce the launch of the 1.1 release of the Ads for Adobe PDF service. With this release, we have introduced a number of new features that will help improve your overall publishing experience and help...

When it comes to software, I generally take it for granted that people know about it and use it if they're interested in it.  It's the world I live in (software) so perhaps you can understand why I am surprised...

When I first posted about AIR's support for enterprise deployment, there was some confusion over whether or not silent installation was allowed. That was problematic because, in enterprise scenarios, silent install is generally required. (Note that it's not required for...

Good news: Apple has just released the 10.5.4 update to OS X Leopard, fixing some incompatibilities with Creative Suite applications:   A problem introduced in the 10.5.3 update that could cause file corruption with files saved from Photoshop and other...

Here's a training material (Traditional Chinese) for Flash Video and Flash Media Server 3. Download file Agenda: 1. Adobe (a) Adobe Players is ubiquitous * High Penetration: Mobile, PMP, Game console and PC (b) Technical Pioneer * Image (PostScript), Document...

On July 9 (already sold out) and August 6, Iconlogic is offering a one-day online course on Integrating Adobe's Technical Communication Suite, which will cover Adobe Captivate, Framemaker, RoboHelp, and the many neat integration points of the Technical Communication...

A collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, Adobe AIR, and Flash Player teams: Pete's Blog (Peter Farland): Using AMF with flash.net.URLLoader Kevin Hoyt: Monitoring Long-Running Transactions with Flex Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick):...

The Connect Pro Event Management application is often overlooked in the Connect family of applications. However it offers some wonderful features that allow it to do things that would be difficult to do otherwise. Event Management is really a way...

I keep receiving questions about the detailed feature list for Presenter 7. The product manager Paresh (Thank you!) just sent me the release notes, which contain the info you are looking for: >> Open PDF   adobe,presenter,features...

Today there's some big news for RIA developers and folks who blog about Flash SEO: Google and Yahoo! now have optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to enhance search engine indexing of SWF files. The implemented solution works with all existing...

Quite often we are asked where to find resources and tutorials for the Fireworks public beta. While performing some keyword searches in google prove helpful, we do have a wiki on Adobe Labs that lists current demonstrations by Adobe employees...

Adobe recently published a whitepaper that highlights some of the features and benefits of using Rights Management. It provides a variety of anonymous case studies across industries that showcase how LiveCycle Rights Management ES can be applied across industries...

I often get asked how feature requests come into Adobe for inclusion in a product like Adobe Reader. Well, there are many channels, including user groups, focus groups, pre-release programs, customer and partner interviews, market analysis, etc. But now, with...

Apple's 10.5.4 update contains more fixes for the Nav Services crash problem that manifests itself most frequently in InDesign. It also contains a fix for the file corruption problem that occurs when saving files to a remote server....

I was just going through my hard drive cleaning out old files. A severe thunderstorm just went through and knocked out our cable connection, so I had to do that instead of wasting time shopping for things I do not...

Flex Your Power, California's outreach campaign for energy efficiency, has a Flash-based trivia game on energy savings facts online. I think it was completely created in Flash. It would be cool to see games like this created in Adobe...

I think we have all seen a JAR conflict on an application server, I still use JDOM and usually run into a conflict with an older version of the JAR installed somewhere on the system that I usually can't touch....

Adobe Acrobat 9 has just been announced and an update to the Mars plug-in with full Acrobat 9 compliance will be released towards the end of July or early August. Mars continues to be a stand-alone plug-in for Adobe Acrobat,...

Adobe Pro Photography Evangelist George Jardine has posted episode 53 in his Lightroom podcast series.  George writes,   This podcast was recorded on Friday, March 7, and Monday, March 10, 2008 in London. It gives us a behind-the-scenes glimpse...

Over the past year, we started releasing some Mars tools on the Mars page on Adobe Labs. These tools in general were written for the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and as AIR developed over the course of last year and...

Here's a bit of brilliance for your Monday: "The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible...

Today's Workplace Challenges These days it's becoming much more common for people to work with other people who aren't in the same location. There are many challenges that come with this. You no longer have the luxury of walking over...

By Roxana Hadad Roxana Hadad is a Project and Instructional Designer at Northwestern University's Collaboratory Project in Evanston, iIlinois. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources' (IDNR) Division of Education has traditionally conducted on site workshops throughout Illinois in order...

I've written up another analysis for loop invariant code motion and LLVM. The good news is that the LLVM team has already fixed some of the problems identified by my code. The bad news is that I discovered that I...

Pravin Bhat & friends at the University of Washington have put together a rather eye-popping video that demonstrates Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene.  I think you'll dig it.  (The removal of the No Parking sign...

Adobe Fireworks Team is presenting a half day session related to designing and Fireworks CS4 public beta release. This is the first showcase of public beta of Fireworks to the designer community in India. I received the following invite from...

Hello again, my friends! As you can see, I'm once again on-a-roll with respect to musical allusions...this one, referring to the classic 1971 Roxy Music tune of the same name (ie, Re-Make/Re-Model). If you've never heard that song, seek out...

Yes, one word. That is all that comes to my mind. Now, that was an incredible event. The entire team at the Adobe office in Korea managed to get about 3'000 creative professionals into one room to listen to what...

A new version of kuler desktop is now available and it allows users to import kuler themes directly into three CS3 applications: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop (instead of having to save a Swatch Exchange to the desktop first)....

As a recent addition to the Buzzword team, it's become part of my task to do some research about good document design and what it means for a document to look good. To that end, this blog will be the...

The team working on Kuler has done it again. Recently, the group updated the AIR version of the application and added some new features.  If you're tired of spending time trying to pick some great colors for your next design, you...

While we continue to add to our Resource Center, there are a number of other great resources out there for you to help you get the most out of Connect Pro. I always like to learn as much as I...

During the next months we will conduct a couple of roadshows as part of our effort to get early feedback from potential Genesis users. We plan to visit three regions in the United States: Dallas/Austin, Seattle/Portland and Chicago. We are...

If you were lucky enough to join the Fire on the Bay user group this month, you heard David Hogue speak about prototyping at Fluid with Fireworks CS3.  David discussed many of the considerations affecting his workflow and offered...

I just finished a new summary description (marketing types call it elevator pitch) for Genesis and also took a few new screenshots. Let me know how I could improve the description to make it easy to understand for people without...

Well, it's here. And, Adobe Reader 9 adds new capabilities, better performance and stronger security. Here are the highlights: Improved launch speeds Looking for faster launch speeds? Adobe has enhanced general performance and, in particular, has reduced launch times with...

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned SwitchBoard, a Flex library that lets Adobe AIR desktop apps communicate with Creative Suite applications.  Now there's a new version of the AIR-based kuler desktop app that can send color swatches to...

You can see Acrobat 9 and never leave your office . . . Sign up for one of our free 1-hour eSeminars where I'll show off the latest legal-specific features of Adobe Acrobat 9. Day Date Time Register Thursday...