In Adobe’s ongoing efforts to continually bloat PDF, the next version will feature webconferencing. Ugh.
According to CNET News.Com,
The company on Monday detailed its refreshed Acrobat line and pricing. In tandem with the product upgrade, Adobe will launch a hosted service called Acrobat Connect, which will allow individuals to click on a button in a PDF file to start a Web conference.
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“The motion forward is around personal and project spaces where people can communicate around certain issues and topics,” said Ricky Liversidge, a product marketing manager at Adobe. “It’s like having my personal meeting room–a URL where you go forward and store documents.”
Connect is a rebranded edition of a Web conferencing product formerly called Macromedia Breeze.
From a PDF file, a person can use Connect to let someone else view a document or a person’s entire desktop through a Web browser. Connect, which runs with the Adobe Flash Player, also lets a person start a chat with instant messaging or send an invitation via e-mail.
All for the low low price of $39/month for individuals! Holy crap, do they think it’s still 1997? Will they throw in a free blink tag?
Source:
Adobe brings Web conferencing to Acrobat. Martin LaMonica, CNET News.Com, September 18, 2006.