Adobe Reader 8.1.1

Adobe heeft Adobe Reader voor Linux en Solaris voorzien van een update naar versie 8.1.1, die momenteel alleen in het Engels beschikbaar is. Met dit programma kunnen documenten van het type Portable Document Format op de computer worden gelezen en geprint. Daarnaast is het mogelijk om deze documenten te doorzoeken naar woorden of woordgroepen. De ontwikkelaars hebben met deze versie weer een hoop zaken verbeterd en toegevoegd zoals je in de volgende lijst met aanpassingen na kan lezen:

What's new in Reader 8.1.1 (Linux and Solaris):

UI:

• New visual design for navigation tabs, toolbars and general chrome
• Customizable toolbars - Hide/show tools on a toolbar
• Loupe Tool - View a zoomed in thumbnail of a portion of a page
• Pan and zoom window - Zoom and pan using a thumbnail overview of the document Beyond Reader
• New help resources that contains up-to-date information on Adobe products, Adobe Reader and how it can be used with Adobe's other products.

Printing:

• Booklet printing - Both sides only, Back side only, both sides, binding (left, right, left-tall, right-tall) Collaboration, Commenting & Markup
• Updated Review Tracker
• Improvements in commenting and drawing markup tools

Forms:

• Significant performance improvement for certain types of forms via direct rendering for Dynamic Forms (XTG)

3D:

• Support for documents created with Adobe Acrobat 3D including navigation, cross-section and rendering.

Accessibility Features:

• Support GOK and ORCA and Internationalized Screen Readers Desktop Integration
• Thumbnails in Explorers, better Desktop Integration in Solaris

Start Meeting Button:

• Toolbar button to start an Adobe Connect meeting

Digital Signatures:

• Ability to hash the document before signing plus ability to parse certificates hashed with these algorithms: RIPEMD 160, SHA 386, SHA 512.
• Conformance Checker - This enhances the 7.0 Document Integrity Checker to include PDF/SIG Q (Qualified Signatures) conformance checks, automatically done before launching in the Signature Preview Mode.
• Signing a Document - Provisioning a digital id and registering it for use in Acrobat is now a distinct step from the signing process.
• Roaming Credentials for Signatures - The addition of this feature provides users the ability to enroll in a signing service.
• Certificate Viewer Additions - Certificate Viewer in 8.0 display attribute certificate details.

Search:

• Search sub-documents in a PDF package (Portable Collection)
• Floating resizable search pane
• Improved searching of attachments within PDF file (improved UI, ability to search 2-level deep subdocuments of PDF package)
• Integrated always available search toolbar (includes find, access to search pane) 2D Measurement tool
• Use embedded scale from CAD file with snap to end points
• Constrain movement to 90 degree increments

Misc.

• View, print, search and extract a PDF Package (Portable Collection)
• Support for Hosted Policy Services

Adobe Reader 8.1.1 is in de volgende smaken binnen te halen:
Linux .i486.tar.gz
Linux .i486.rpm
Linux .i486.tar.bz2
Linux .i386.deb
Solaris .tar.gz
Solaris .tar.bz2