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ADOBE HAS LAUNCHED A SOFTWARE DEVLOPMENT KIT for its Reader software which will allow third party developers to support the use of PDF files across a broad range of mobile solutions including smartphone handsets and MIDs.
Designed to deliver high quality, scaleable documents and ebooks, the SDK features a number of new tools including PDF reflow which will allow resizing of text-based documents for better readability, Epub support for XML based ebooks and better content protection for paid-for content.
Simplified APIs and better use of ARM processors, emebedded Linux and Windows Mobile operating systems should keep the coders happy.
The SDK is available on a case by case basis to pretty much anyone involved in getting Adobe's ubiquitous file format out there and you can fill in the application form here. µ
Now I can take my extremely portable and readable HTML documents and make them into something my customers will require another application to read and take up valuable memory space, except they wont be freeflowing documents that can be easily read on their mobile devices.
Another great step forward in crippling silicon.
Adobe: Reinventing the stick to poke through the spokes of your wheels.
Tom, you forgot to mention all the possibilities that come with the upgrade blues, thanks to the Adobe software "features", like security holes.