New Adobe Acrobat Package: Pro Extended 9 (Fri, 15 Aug 2008)

Adobe have released Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, a package that includes Adobe Presenter, Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES, and Adobe 3D Reviewer software. Pro Extended is designed for business and technical professionals creating interactive presentations, as it allows PDF files to include video, voice-over, demos, and interactive quizzes. It also provides a number of form and collaboration features, making it easy to gather feedback, interactively review, and build consensus from a distributed document.

Author-it ver 5.1 Released (Fri, 08 Aug 2008)

Author-it Software Corporation has released version 5.1 of the Author-it authoring tool. The new version has new functionality including Object Variant capability and a Quick Search function. Object Variants are an extension of the Author-it model that allows content components, be it text, graphics, links, or even formatting, to have any number of variations created for them based on user-defined criteria. This allows authors to easily create these variations for whatever purpose they need, and manage them together as a single component. Author-it 5.1 runs on Windows Servers and Windows-based PC's. Current Author-it 5 clients who have maintenance agreements will get an automatic upgrade to Author-it 5.1.

DITA Storm Desktop Released (Wed, 25 Jun 2008)

Inmedius have released DITA Storm Desktop, a standalone XML editing solution based on the DITA Storm Web-based DITA Editor. Desktop allows the user to create and publish DITA documents in a self-contained environment on a single workstation. Installed locally on the end user’s computer, files are accessed, edited, saved and published from local or network drives, regardless of Internet connectivity. With WYSIWYG editing capabilities, authors with little or no DITA or XML knowledge can create valid, structured content. Desktop runs on Mac OS, Windows (including Vista) and Linux operating systems, and costs USD474.