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Foxit updates PDF SDK for Web 10.0

July 11, 2024 /

Foxit, a provider of PDF solutions, announced the launch of Foxit PDF SDK for Web 10.0, delivering new tools and features for developers. The PDF SDK is aimed at helping software developers in any industry to build apps with PDF functionality by leveraging the most popular development frameworks.

The new release is designed to improve efficiency by streamlining workflow. This update includes the introduction of Dynamic Library Loading, which reduces initial load time and memory usage. Foxit PDF SDK for Web 10.0 also welcomes a retooled Refactored Bookmark Module for faster and more efficient bookmark loading along with enhanced navigation within PDF documents. Other highlights:

  • Dynamic XFA Form-Fill Functionality – XFA forms can now utilize dynamic scripting capabilities, making them interactive and data-driven.
  • 3D Model Viewing – Introduces basic support for 3D model rendering within PDFs, allowing users to view simple 3D content within web applications.
  • Reorder Annotations – Users can reorder the stacking order through the user interface and programmatically.
  • Auto-Fit Text in Containers.
  • Custom Annotation Appearance.
  • Global Undo/Redo Functionality – is now available for all text editing actions.
  • Custom Font Support.
  • Group Signatures with Single /V Dictionary.
  • JSON Form Data Import/Export.

https://www.foxit.com

Syncro Soft announces Fusion 7.0

July 10, 2024 /

Syncro Soft announced the release of Oxygen Content Fusion 7.0, their web-based collaboration platform for content creation. The new version enhances the project support with a personal authoring workspace where you can make changes across multiple files and commit them directly to the repository. The Changes side-view enables previewing and changes before committing. An XML-aware conflict resolution tool pulls changes from the repository, detects conflicts, suggests automated solutions, and allows merging content manually. Along with the editing features for XML documents, the built-in Web Author allows you to edit Markdown files inside the authoring workspace providing syntax preview and toolbar actions to insert common structures.

The workspace feature includes a Publications side-view for browsing of a publication’s DITA map. Users can open the map in a specialized DITA map editor to modify the structure using toolbar or contextual menu actions. The editor supports advanced DITA features such as profiling attributes, key definitions, and map references.

Continuous Deployment for output is possible with support for publishing connectors to enable uploading to various platforms such as Amazon S3, Netlify, or servers with SFTP protocol. The output can be configured to include an “Edit Online” link in each topic that sends authors to their personal workspace where they can make changes.

https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html

Adobe updates Acrobat with GenAI and chat across document types

June 17, 2024 /

Adobe announced Acrobat customers can now create and edit images in PDFs using text prompts, powered by Adobe Firefly, along with new features in Acrobat AI Assistant integrated into Reader and Acrobat workflows that allow customers to ask questions, get insights, and create content from information across groups of PDFs as well as other document types.

The new Acrobat features enable customers to easily enhance existing images and generate new images in their PDFs with generative AI without leaving the app. Features include: 

  • Edit Image in Acrobat offers easy-to-use tools like the Firefly-powered Generative Fill, Remove Background, Erase and Crop to add, remove and revitalize content in document images in a snap. From erasing unwanted objects to removing backgrounds or adding new images, customers have full, easy control over the visuals in their PDFs.
  • With Generate Image in Acrobat, customers can add new images to their PDFs, powered by Adobe’s Firefly Image 3 Model. Customers can quickly adjust the size and style and add images to any part of a document.

Adobe is offering free, full access to all Acrobat AI Assistant features June 18 – June 28. Early access pricing for the AI Assistant add-on subscription starts at US$4.99 per month.

https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Reimagines-Acrobat-Bringing-Firefly-AI-to-PDFs-and-Expanding-Use-Across-More-Document-Types/default.aspx

Perplexity introduces Perplexity Pages

May 30, 2024 /

Snippets from the Perplexity blog…

You’ve used Perplexity to search for answers, explore new topics, and expand your knowledge. Now, it’s time to share what you learned. Meet Perplexity Pages, your new tool for easily transforming research into visually stunning, comprehensive content. Whether you’re crafting in-depth articles, detailed reports, or informative guides, Pages streamlines the process so you can focus on sharing your knowledge with the world.

Pages lets you effortlessly create, organize, and share information. Search any topic, and instantly receive a well-structured, beautifully formatted article. Publish your work to our growing library of user-generated content and share it directly with your audience with a single click. What sets Perplexity Pages apart?

  • Customizable: Tailor the tone of your Page to resonate with your target audience, whether you’re writing for general readers or subject matter experts.
  • Adaptable: Easily modify the structure of your article—add, rearrange, or remove sections to best suit your material and engage your readers.
  • Visual: Elevate your articles with visuals generated by Pages, uploaded from your personal collection, or sourced online.

Pages is rolling out to users now. Log in to your Perplexity account and select “Create a Page” in the library tab.

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/new

Apple Final Cut Pro 2 on iPad and Mac get new AI features

May 7, 2024 /

Apple introduced Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 based on capabilities of the new iPad Pro. Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 transforms iPad into a multicam production studio with Live Multicam. Users can speed up their shoot by connecting and previewing up to four cameras at once. To support Live Multicam, Final Cut Camera — a new video capture app — comes to iPhone and iPad, letting creators wirelessly connect and remotely direct each video angle with pro controls. Final Cut Camera also works as a standalone professional video capture app on iPhone and iPad. External project support allows users to edit projects directly from an external drive with the Thunderbolt connection of iPad Pro. Editing and finishing a project with Final Cut Pro on the new iPad Pro with the M4 chip enables users to color grade, apply multiple effects, and render graphically intense timelines faster.

New artificial intelligence features come to Final Cut Pro for Mac 10.8, giving editors the ability to rapidly customize the look of videos or photos in a single click and retime visuals easily. Workflow-accelerating tools add ways to manage color correction and video effects, as well as search and navigate the timeline with ease.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/final-cut-pro-transforms-video-creation-with-live-multicam-on-ipad-and-new-ai-features-on-mac

Adobe introduces Frame.io V4

April 9, 2024 /

Adobe introduced the all-new Frame.io V4, a creative collaboration platform that streamlines and simplifies workflows across content creation and production. Frame.io V4 is designed to meet the complex needs of creative teams delivering personalized content by centralizing feedback, helping to reduce rounds of revisions and accelerating the delivery of media assets. The next generation of Frame.io will begin to roll out today in beta for Frame.io Free and Pro customers, and is planned to launch later this year for Team and Enterprise customers. 

With all-new workflow management capabilities, anchored by a dynamic metadata framework and smart folder system called Collections, V4 introduces a cloud-based platform that is customizable and flexible enough to facilitate any creative workflow. File transfer, media asset review and approval, sharing, and presentations have undergone a complete transformation in V4, offering users a platform for their most demanding creative projects.

Frame.io is integrated with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects and will be available in Adobe Photoshop for Creative Cloud Enterprise customers beginning in May, with support for more Creative Cloud tools, customer segments, and integration with Workfront coming later this year.

https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Introduces-Next-Generation-of-Frame.io-to-Accelerate-Content-Workflow-and-Collaboration-for-Every-Creative-Project/default.aspx

TransPerfect acquires TheSpeech

March 27, 2024 /

TransPerfect, a provider of language and AI solutions for global business, today announced that it has acquired TheSpeech, a remote simultaneous interpretation platform for multilingual events. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

TheSpeech’s self-service platform enables customers to have their live events interpreted from multiple source languages to multiple target languages and broadcast live to any size audience, anywhere around the world. Key features of TheSpeech include:

  • Support for live, online, and hybrid events
  • 150+ languages
  • Closed captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers
  • Support for nearly all platforms and configurations
  • Data collection and statistics for meeting organizers to be informed on engagement while being GDPR compliant
  • No hardware rental required and nothing to physically install

TheSpeech will continue to be led by CEO Peter Cselenyi, who will join TransPerfect’s management team. Cselenyi has served as CEO since founding the company in 2015 with partners Peter Vincze and Virag Vinceffy. TransPerfect was advised on the transaction by DLA Piper Hungary. TheSpeech was advised by Andersen Legal Hungary.

https://www.transperfect.com ■ https://thespeech.app

Quark announces QPP NextGen v3.3

January 29, 2024 /

Quark Software, a global provider of content automation, intelligence and design software, today announced the newest release of Quark Publishing Platform (QPP) NextGen, its cloud-based content automation platform that simplifies the complexities associated with the entire enterprise content lifecycle management process, from creation to consumption, in a fully integrated CCMS.

QPP NextGen v3.3 includes new content workflow visualization capabilities that help content teams understand the impact of change across content workflows. Additionally, newly available self-service Microsoft Excel data integration options for content authors reduces IT dependency and helps eliminate errors when creating data-rich documentation.

With QPP NextGen v3.3, Quark has infused more features within Quarky AI – the company’s enterprise AI copilot that works with customer’s own AI services and LLMs. It delivers real-time visibility to address inefficiencies, ensure compliance when working with sensitive information, and offers fast access to Microsoft Excel data for content authors to analyze and organize large amounts of componentized, reusable content quickly and efficiently.

New features and benefits available in the latest v3.3 release of QPP NextGen include:

  • Visualization Workflows
  • Access to Microsoft Excel Data
  • Improved Security Posture
  • Improved Search and Discovery of Content
  • Prioritize Content Attributes

https://www.quark.com/whats-new-quark-publishing-platform

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