Acrobat X not much on print, see blog for IPEX 2002

http://ipex2002.blogspot.com/2010/10/print-is-not-featured-feature-of.html

I have done a blog post for IPEX 2002 blog. Now that Acrobat X is out i shall do more on this blog and the drupa one. Both strated a while ago and are due to resolve sometime soon.

Adobe could be sensible to just forget about hard copy. Only the paranoid survive. Why worry about existing customers?

But meanwhile most people still use print some of the time. more on this later. This posterous blog attempts to be integrated but may sometimes just have a short link to another blog.

Sony Google TV builds the case for "EX1to4"

Nilay Patel blogged from the launch of the Sony version of Google TV

5:53PM He's hitting the Dual View button to put the TV feed in PIP while he searches and browses on the rest of the screen. This is a very familiar Google TV demo -- and it's yet to be explained why you wouldn't just do this on your phone or laptop while watching instead.

So some or most of the functions of Google TV already exist, spread out over several devices.

Searching on "EX!to4" is a way to relate to local TV. With no investment required anywhere in the UK so that should suit the culture policy. Of course there could be something more like a channel later if there was some support.

#likeminds on Phonic / Barefoot Radio

http://carlmunson.posterous.com/scott-gould-from-like-minds-on-the-barefoot-b-0

This is the link i was missing, the rest of this post is as it was

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Scott Gould from #likeminds was interviewed yesterday on Phonic / Barefoot Radio by Carl Munson and Damien Houston. There is an mp3 attached to email but I am not sure where the best place is to find it. I am still getting used to the Barefoot approach after the New Exeter Radio Show. They are still on Phonic but Thursday not Friday and one hour only from nine to ten. The Barefoot Radio is also on BlogTalk Radio, selections from the archive most days and these are also archived. So the interview with Scott Gould will turn up soon. I will add a link when this happens.

Blog Talk is based in the USA. The ads are a bit loud but the hosting seems to work.

Scott talks mostly about the music events as an intro for the Autumn Festival. It would be great if the rest of the events get into similar forms of promotion.

I still think there is a need to relate these ideas to normal Exeter as it exists round the year. I will be studying some other venues as a control sample.

Carl is especially smooth and welcoming on this occasion. Damien just a bit off topic and quickly accused of being in the era of tin cans and bits of string. Well, someone has to represent Exeter as most people find it. I am thinking about cardboard boxes to demonstrate how wifi might operate around the BT building if the castle, library etc were to explore the full potential of the current situation. .

Acrobat 10 may leave PDF behind

I have found a bit more about possible directions for Acrobat. Kurt Foss has a blog as part of Acrobat Users and this links to a preview of what to expect from MAX, the Adobe meeting for developers and designers.

However it seems to be mostly about Flash. How to embed Flash content in a PDF. How to create a portfolio, a Flash intro and menu that contains several PDF files. How to use various types of code to create Flash menus. There is nothing I can see about PDF and XML or how to move text between various file formats.

Maybe I have just lost touch with where the concern is. I do realise there is a current debate about Apple TV compared to Google TV and other Apple / Flash choices. Only the paranoid survive and this challenge has to be met. But the same kind of message may not suit everyone. There are still people using Acrobat who are interested in documents that are mostly text with some flat graphics.

As far as I known there is no current development on MARS, the XML rewrite of the PDF format. Maybe this is not of great concern if workarounds exist for the problems identified previously. The tool for checking a PDFXML file can also be used for EPUB. There is very little info on how Adobe supports EPUB. 

A PDF portfolio could be a better option than a zip file inside an organisation that stripped away zip attachments as a security risk. Also a PDF file containing Flash could get into some organisations where Flash is usually banned. These are interesting points but not advancing PDF as such.

I did try out portfolios when Acrobat 9 was released. I found that the people I sent them to were reluctant to have to upgrade just to read them. So I sent the PDF either file by file or with a PDF menu. Recently I notice Gmail has a reader for PDF attachments that launches quite quickly. It may be some form of Flash paper, I don't know.  Scribd is working on HTML5 but the current version is based on Flash. Thing is, they seem to actually like documents. On an Adobe site I usually feel I should be losing interest in text, animation is the only way to go.

There will be a session at MAX on "Dynamic PDF", I guess this is another word for Flash.

There seems to be no news about Acrobat.com or Buzzword. Acrobat 10 will be announced presumably to encourage upgrades. But is the dektop the only option? What versions of the software capability will be available online?

My guess is that as PDF and EPUB are now open standards, Adobe will not have the same energy for explaining how they relate to these formats. The challenge of Apple TV to the Open Screen is just too pressing. Acrobat will become another way to show off Flash. just like any other Adobe product.

Thing is though, as Acrobat moves on from PDF there may be some Acrobat users who start to look around.

18th October maybe Acrobat 10 info or something

Apparently something will happen on October 18th. Adobe have invited some journalists. There is a graphic at Macity

Translating the Italian through Google there appears to be some speculation that Adobe offers will involve Flash.

Well, what about PDF? There is not much info available. Blogs have not been updated this year.

There is not much need to add to the sense of mystery.

Guardian free films and Microsoft DRM

(previous post missed out the images)

The Guardian has a new approach to free gifts. Gone are the DVDs. Just a link to a download page.

However, I have trouble in getting it to load. I managed to install the Blinkbox downloader ok but it is surprising to me how little guidance you get on what is happening.

Now the main problem is Windows Media Player. It keeps telling me that I need an update. Itry to install it, nothing happens.

Version 11 for Windows XP

Another problem is that I don't know what the update is called. Trying from getting updates tells me there are none. 

Microsoft Help mostly about privacy.

The Guardian had no explanation or guide to this offer. where is Jack Schofield when you need him? There has never been a free PDF to download, that would have been too simple. Suddenly there is a meg all at once. 

Help please.

(download)

#EX1to4 as a basis for a local channel : Google and iTunes search TV

I have started another Twitter id - "EX1to4" . These are postcodes around here.  So the Tweets will be about particular space.

Clips on YouTube are global. But they could be a local channel as well. Recently I have uploaded several from St Sidwell's Open Day.

Also I have noticed TV products from Logitech and Apple. the Logitech device supports google TV but is not yet available in the UK. It is on order in the USA so is real. It seems to be a sort of browser linked to a TV so that you can watch web content on a bigger screen.

The Apple device is closely linked to the iTunes shop but it also includes YouTube. It is available in the UK though the  Exeter shop has still got the previous model on display this afternoon.

LA News Monitor Blog has a comparison. Things may change before this reaches the UK but the direction is towards one deviice with web search as a route to video. The aim of a local channel is still worth keeping in mind. But the way to gather material could be to work on whatever comes up through a postcode tag.

Easypub in Frankfurt tomorrow

video from London Bookfair

Now that Graph Expo is a digital show there could be just as much interest in composition at a book fair.
Confused? Ask about fonts.

Presentation about eBooks.
 
Company
EasyEPUB
07/10/2010
17:00 - 17:30
 
Exhibition site
4.0 A1307
Publishing Services Hot Spot

Andy Tribute video - Graph Expo a digital show

http://whattheythink.com/video/view.cfm?id=46967

More on the what they Think site but this seems to cover the headlines.

Usually my blog approach to a print event is to wait for what Andy tribute thinks and then link.

But I do have one quibble. He doubts if graph Expo needs to happen every year. The thing is, if it is a web related show then technology changes fairly quickly. If nobody brings heavy metal it is not too difficult.

For the UK an IPEX every four years is often enough. But we welcome video from somewhere else.