Comments on: Acrobat 8 meets the Extended Rights Manifesto http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/duffjohnson/2006/11/11/acrobat-8-meets-the-extended-rights-manifesto/ PDF and Acrobat discussion for users, CIOs and developers Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:00:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: nkatz http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/duffjohnson/2006/11/11/acrobat-8-meets-the-extended-rights-manifesto/#comment-119 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:05:18 +0000 http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/duffjohnson/2006/11/11/acrobat-8-meets-the-extended-rights-manifesto/#comment-119 They have a legal subdirectory, with versions by language and country: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat\Legal\en_US for example location on a default installed Windows XP machine. Noah Katz They have a legal subdirectory, with versions by language and country:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat\Legal\en_US for example location on a default installed Windows XP machine.

Noah Katz

]]> by: murph http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/duffjohnson/2006/11/11/acrobat-8-meets-the-extended-rights-manifesto/#comment-98 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:33:06 +0000 http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/duffjohnson/2006/11/11/acrobat-8-meets-the-extended-rights-manifesto/#comment-98 I have to concur here. It is super cool to have the save rights. However as a 'PDF as application" developer I need the SOAP and spawn rights to really do things the right way. With those additional rights you could truly develop some incredibly lightweight applications that are portable to virtually any computer in the world WITHOUT installation. I'm already emailing pdf applications to people but how great would it be if that was the last time I had to do it. With SOAP it could check for those needed updates, like say for instance a rate change for a mortgage broker's loan agreements. And when you think about it most PDF's are opened inside the web browser with the pdf plugin but yet it can't handle SOAP?? I just can't see the value to the user or to Adobe for this constriction (except for the big companies that can afford to pay them for the Server product). Save rights are a huge step for this but SOAP would give the developer a chance to make an app that could be updated without redistribution and spawn rights could help the file size could be so small that the pdf would open faster and not bog the user down with things they don't need to see. But maybe that's the hook for Acrobat 9?? It is exciting, but Adobe could have unleashed so much more to help us create dynamic connected apps in the pdf. From my point of view I'll give it 7 out of 10. I have to concur here. It is super cool to have the save rights. However as a ‘PDF as application” developer I need the SOAP and spawn rights to really do things the right way. With those additional rights you could truly develop some incredibly lightweight applications that are portable to virtually any computer in the world WITHOUT installation. I’m already emailing pdf applications to people but how great would it be if that was the last time I had to do it. With SOAP it could check for those needed updates, like say for instance a rate change for a mortgage broker’s loan agreements. And when you think about it most PDF’s are opened inside the web browser with the pdf plugin but yet it can’t handle SOAP?? I just can’t see the value to the user or to Adobe for this constriction (except for the big companies that can afford to pay them for the Server product).

Save rights are a huge step for this but SOAP would give the developer a chance to make an app that could be updated without redistribution and spawn rights could help the file size could be so small that the pdf would open faster and not bog the user down with things they don’t need to see.

But maybe that’s the hook for Acrobat 9?? It is exciting, but Adobe could have unleashed so much more to help us create dynamic connected apps in the pdf. From my point of view I’ll give it 7 out of 10.

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