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More performance for Acrobat DC
on Mac thanks to August 2019 update

15. August 201913. August 2019 by Stephan Jaeggi

Adobe released planned updates for Acrobat DC and Acrobat 2017. As usual there are two separate installers:

Acrobat 19.012.20036 for subscribers of the Document Cloud (Continuous Track)
Acrobat 17.011.30144 for users with a perpetual license of Acrobat 2017 (Classic Track)

The update can also be installed using the Acrobat menu Help > Check for Updates….

In the latest version there are not as many new features as in previous updates. The August update mainly brings improvements for the Mac version:

Test of changed function
for online sharing of PDF documents

16. August 201913. August 2019 by Stephan Jaeggi

Adobe is currently testing a modified PDF online sharing feature with some users.

The current version is described on a web page:

Version 3.0 of text comparison tool
PDiff released

10. July 201925. June 2019 by Stephan Jaeggi

The text-based PDF comparison PDiff is available in the new version 3.0. The software from CSci is a modern solution for professional document comparison. The new release makes PDF comparison even more powerful thanks to an improved GUI.

PDiff shows all text differences between two PDF documents – as a comparison of the two PDFs and with markings of the deviations. So you can check intended revisions quickly and find unintended changes at first glance:

Native PDF editor ArtPro+ from Esko

12. June 201912. June 2019 by Stephan Jaeggi

Esko boosts user accuracy and efficiency with ArtPro+ software upgrade.

ArtPro+ opens any classic ArtPro file or normalized PDF file and turns it into native PDF. Compared with other solutions on the market today, crucial production metadata, such as barcode properties, screening or ink information, are now not only maintained but translated into the latest PDF ISO specifications, and both the graphical content and packaging relevant metadata are migrated.

The lastest version 18.1 of ArtPro+ has just passed the compliancy test for the Ghent PDF Output Suite 5.

Enfocus Switch 2019 Spring released

11. July 20197. June 2019 by Stephan Jaeggi

Enfocus has announced the release of Enfocus Switch 2019 Spring. From now on Enfocus plans to release two Switch updates every year.

An overview on the new features is presented in a short YouTube video (5’05”) and in a comprehensive PDF document.

Attention: Switch Client for transmitting jobs and meta data to the server is no longer supported in this version. The local app is replaced by a web client which runs in the internet browser.