Adobe Will Create Tools For All Conde Nast Digital Mags

paidContent: "Conde Nast will formally rely on Adobe tools when it comes to crafting its digital magazine replicas, after dividing duties between the software company and its in-house team at Conde Nast Digital. The decision, announced by Bob Sauerberg, Conde Nast’s president, comes on the heels of five new app releases. Although there is 'ongoing R&D,' the change marks the completion its initial wave of experiments with mobile apps. It also comes as Conde Nast has been making some changes following two high-profile hires on its technology and marketing sides."

New Adobe Reader Sandboxed, Simplified

NYTimes.com: "Adobe has released the new version of its Reader PDF viewing software, and with it comes a number of changes: a new Roman-based numbering scheme ('Adobe Reader X'), tightened security and, for the browser version, a substantially reduced user interface. Adobe's flagship PDF creation software, Adobe Acrobat, has been upgraded as well. ..."

Amazon Releases Beta Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign

MarketWatch: "SEATTLE, Oct 01, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com, Inc. today announced the Beta Version of Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign(R), a new tool that allows publishers to more easily make titles available for Kindle by converting Adobe InDesign(R) files directly into Kindle books. This is a free download, and allows publishers and content creators to take existing print-ready files and create Kindle books with a couple of clicks. ..."

The New Yorker Launches iPad Edition Using Adobe Tools

Adobe Digital Publishing: "The New Yorker, the iconic magazine title from publisher Conde Nast, today released an app for the iPad using the Digital Magazine Solution from Adobe. Available on the Apple App Store, The New Yorker tablet edition preserves the look-and-feel of the print publication, and adds interactive audio, video and slideshows to supplement the magazine’s signature mix of reporting and commentary. Adobe collaborated with The New Yorker to launch the iPad edition, in part because the publication’s design challenges represented a different end of the magazine publishing spectrum. ..."

Adobe Reader for Android ... Now Supporting Six Languages

Adobe Reader Blog: "It’s here – today we added support for five additional languages for Adobe Reader for Android: French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. In this update (V9.0.2) Android phone users in these locales can now view and interact with PDF files in the language most convenient to them. It’s easy and just a few clicks away to download (click from your Android device) this free update in your own language from your Android phone. Once the update is installed, Adobe Reader adopts the current language settings of your smart phone for any of the supported languages."