Adobe unveils improved Adobe Scan app, new Office 365 integrations
Adobe today announced a slew of updates and integrations across Adobe Document Cloud, its suite of cloud-based apps for converting and processing PDFs. The company's free document scanning app for Android and iOS, Adobe Scan, is getting some improvements thanks to machine learning. Adobe Sign, its electronic signature service, is now deeply integrated with Microsoft Dynamics and offers access to LinkedIn customer details, plus a self-service tool for fielding GDPR requests. And starting this week, enterprise and team Acrobat DC users who subscribe to Office 365 can create PDFs from the ribbon menu in the web-based versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, and SharePoint.
[...] In September 2017, Microsoft partnered with Adobe to make Adobe Sign the "preferred e-signature solution" for its customers. Expanding on that collaboration, Sign and Adobe PDF are gaining new integrations with Microsoft Dynamics and Office 365.
Specifically, Microsoft Dynamics customers can now pull customer data from LinkedIn Sales Navigator and embed Adobe Sign into Dynamics workflows. In addition, Adobe Sign has been granted authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), an assessment and authorization program to which U.S. federal agencies must adhere, and includes a privacy administrator role that includes the aforementioned GDPR request tool.
On the Office 365 side of things, new shortcuts in the ribbon of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint web apps allow you to convert documents into PDFs with optional password protection. Adobe PDF archiving, conversion, and distribution tools are also now available from within OneDrive and SharePoint.
Also at The Verge and PCWorld.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:53AM (2 children)
It's all about putting bloatware in your bloatware,
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @08:11PM
Adobe's PDF extensions for Office are one of the most common add-ins in Office products. Ditto Flash as the most common add-in, by far, in IE. I agree with the decision to bundle the latter. The former I'm not so sure on. The good news is that if they ship it they'll ship patches for it. There is an epidemic of companies that are years behind on Reader patching.
Related: If you are still deploying Adobe Reader XI (11), it's out of support since October of last year. Not just unpatched, but now unsupported.
es una problema.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday June 21 2018, @09:08PM
No, its all about getting their hands on your documents.
Office 365 has your data stored on the web somewhere, just waiting for a subpoena or less formal request.
Sending your PDFs to Adobe makes no sense either. These guys know nothing about security. Why would you trust them?
I simply can't believe that people casually do that stuff or recommend a company start putting their business all on line.
PDFs from your document processor are nothing new. They've been around in one form or another for decades.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Thursday June 21 2018, @01:14PM (9 children)
M$ free , 11 years.
Use Libreoffice unless your livelihood depends on it.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @01:39PM (1 child)
Because my livelihood depends on it is WHY I use LO. MS Office has caused too many problems. I started with Star Office years ago and haven't looked back.
I have clients I bail out on a weekly basis due to Office 365's updates that hose their installations and Win 10 is a guaranteed money maker for me the day after path Tuesday as I make the rounds fixing the resultant mess.
Fortunately people are starting to get it and are slowly migrating to LibreOffice and Mint.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday June 21 2018, @09:14PM
Oh but you will here the wail: Won't somebody please think of my corner case
And they invariably come up with some horrible contraption of a spread sheet that doesn't work under LO.
They will invariable have a spread sheet chock full of VB and crazy shit because they didn't know what they were doing, and Carlos from Accounting said this was the way to go.
There's always one of these guys in every office.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:17PM (3 children)
Corel WordPerfect Office > LibreOffice >>> Microsoft Office. Just sayin'. Reveal codes FTW. I mean, sure, Corel WordPerfect Office doesn't support Unicode. But everyone reads and writes in English anyway, am I right?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:58PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @03:21PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:21PM
黃銅球!
(Score: 1) by exaeta on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:40PM (2 children)
Libreoffice sucks though. Just use lyx. (which sucks, but not as badly)
TBH we still don't have a decent open source office progran because all of what we have is buggy/complicated.
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:25PM
What's buggy with vim+latex?
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Friday June 22 2018, @01:56PM
LO has improved massively - I have used lyx but i found it too intense.
The happy medium (for me) is to use the Latex plugin in LO.
Perfectly sane...and nice equations ;-)
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @01:37PM (3 children)
IIRC those are the last versions that had no product activation.
To this very day they work great on my 64-bit Win8.1 box.
I honestly have not the first clue why anyone would ever want any of the later versions. There's nothing I've ever wanted in the way of graphics that I haven't been able to do with Photoshop or Illustrator.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:00PM (2 children)
On XP, I still run MS Office 97, which I believe is the last version that doesn't phone home(?)
To keep on topic (sort of), it integrates nicely with full Acrobat 5 if the Adobe product is installed after Office.
And both of them are pleasantly fast on more modern hardware...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:30PM
i installed Office 2003 and Acrobat 8 in my 'forever XP' offline VM
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @10:17PM
One wonders what you use to get online.
Photoshop 10 and Illustrator 7
Have you tried GIMP (even runs under Windoze) [google.com] or Krita (will also run under Windoze). [google.com]
Did neither of those do the tasks you need?
...or do you simply find the notion of learning a new interface offputting?
BTW, those will also run under a -SUPPORTED- OS. [google.com]
You can even put that OS online without having to worry about getting pwned (as you do when your old OS is 4 years out of support).
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