PDFs account for 80% of all exploits in 2009

February 18th, 2010 – Robert Hallock

Security firm ScanSafe announced on Tuesday that Adobe's PDF document format was the target of 80% of all exploits in 2009. 14 comments

Convert websites to PDF immediately

January 26th, 2009 – Robert Hallock

PDF company NitroPDF has released a fantastic service that converts the contents of your browser’s current page into a PDF. The service simply requires that you drag their bookmarklet into your browser’s bookmark menu. Any time you want to convert the current page to PDF, just click the bookmark to spawn a new tab/window which [...] 3 comments

Create Word docs from PDFs

December 30th, 2008 – Robert Hallock

Though PDF is proprietary and Acrobat is trashy, the PDF remains a swank format because it guarantees every reader sees the same document free of font or formatting quirkiness. Yet no matter how super awesome PDF can be, sometimes it’s just plain better to have a document that can be edited at leisure. To that [...] 4 comments