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Apple posts iPad presentation video
By Peter CohenJanuary 27, 2010, 5:10 pm PT
You’ve read the live coverage of Apple’s special event unveiling the iPad, and now you can watch it yourself. Apple has posted the video of the presentation.Apple CEO Steve Jobs and others took the keynote stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Calif. to introduce the iPad, Apple’s newest hardware offering. Starting at $499, the iPad will be available in different configurations with Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, beginning in late March.
The iPad runs iPhone software and syncs with a Mac or PC using a 30-pin dock connector. It sports a touch-sensitive 9.7-inch display that uses the same IPS and LED technology employed by the iMac. It’s powered by a lithium polymer battery that lasts for up to 10 hours of video usage, with one month of standby power.
The video is available in QuickTime and MPEG-4.
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Adobe now working to get Flash on iPad. Late-breaking news.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/188...
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No, that's not what that means. Packager enables ActionScript developers to convert code to run as a native iPhone application. It is *not* Flash on the iPad or iPhone.
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Is there any chance that a version of Adobe Reader will be ported over for the iPad? I've got a ton of Marvel comic's that contain entire runs of some of their marquee characters & titles that were released a few years ago on DVD. These pdf files require Reader as it's the only pdf app that will hide the watermark that is prevalent on each of the scanned pages in every comic.
iPad will be an awesome comic reader, so this is really an important concern for me.
Considering that there isn't an Adobe Reader app for the iPhone & given Apple & Adobe's cool relationship, I'm not very optimistic.
BTW, is there anyway to use any other pdf reader out there that can hide these watermarks? I've looked but, no joy! Is there a solution out there short of acquiring Acrobat to see if I can do it that way, and even so, the files might be locked as to prevent this. Hell, I'm not trying to circumvent the watermark, I just want to be able to read what I paid for using an Apple mobile device!
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I think you answered your own question when you said, "there isn't an Adobe Reader app for the iPhone."
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That's what I was afraid of Peter. I guess I will have to explore other hardware devices that do use Reader. Thanks for your quick reply!
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True. But aren't there also a handful of lightweight "PDF Creator" programs floating out there for Mac and PC? Some of them are even shareware or free. And couldn't one of them theoretically be ported into an iPad app? Remember that iWork and most document creators in MacOSX can create PDF documents. And that iWork itself (a very capable Mac/PC program) will be ported to the iPad. So making a jump in logic…. maybe a lightweight Mac/PC based PDF creator could be ported into an iPad app? Just a thought.
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Problem is Daniel that the pdf files that were created for these comics that I describe above will only hide the watermark if viewed using only Adobe Reader. No other pdf viewer I've tried does this, so for me it seems that my options are, well, none!
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John David,
I see your dilema, but there is an easy fix. It’s not in the reader you choose to use, but rather getting rid of that watermark on the original pdf(s).
I don’t have comic books, but I have tweaked around with numerous pdfs to get them to look optimal. My main pdfs are textbooks and mauals that I use for school, and I have lots.
A program called Abby Finereader 9.0 is what I for editing pdfs. You open the pdf in this program, and it can literally manipulate anything you want. Text, pictures, watermarks, etc. you can delete, change fonts, and more.
I then view these books on my iPod Touch 3rd gen with iSilo, a very handy program. iSilo will be available for the iPad too, and I have been in the process of fine tuning and perfecting all my pdfs to get ready for the iPad. The conversion from pdf to the iSilo docs is fairly simple and the viewing is great.
Anyways, hope this helps. Abby Finereader is pricey, but you can find torrents of it around the web.
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Apple posts iPad presentation video
By Peter CohenJanuary 27, 2010, 5:10 pm PT
You’ve read the live coverage of Apple’s special event unveiling the iPad, and now you can watch it yourself. Apple has posted the video of the presentation.Apple CEO Steve Jobs and others took the keynote stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Calif. to introduce the iPad, Apple’s newest hardware offering. Starting at $499, the iPad will be available in different configurations with Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, beginning in late March.
The iPad runs iPhone software and syncs with a Mac or PC using a 30-pin dock connector. It sports a touch-sensitive 9.7-inch display that uses the same IPS and LED technology employed by the iMac. It’s powered by a lithium polymer battery that lasts for up to 10 hours of video usage, with one month of standby power.
The video is available in QuickTime and MPEG-4.
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Adobe now working to get Flash on iPad. Late-breaking news.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/188...-
No, that's not what that means. Packager enables ActionScript developers to convert code to run as a native iPhone application. It is *not* Flash on the iPad or iPhone.
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Is there any chance that a version of Adobe Reader will be ported over for the iPad? I've got a ton of Marvel comic's that contain entire runs of some of their marquee characters & titles that were released a few years ago on DVD. These pdf files require Reader as it's the only pdf app that will hide the watermark that is prevalent on each of the scanned pages in every comic.
iPad will be an awesome comic reader, so this is really an important concern for me.
Considering that there isn't an Adobe Reader app for the iPhone & given Apple & Adobe's cool relationship, I'm not very optimistic.
BTW, is there anyway to use any other pdf reader out there that can hide these watermarks? I've looked but, no joy! Is there a solution out there short of acquiring Acrobat to see if I can do it that way, and even so, the files might be locked as to prevent this. Hell, I'm not trying to circumvent the watermark, I just want to be able to read what I paid for using an Apple mobile device!
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I think you answered your own question when you said, "there isn't an Adobe Reader app for the iPhone."
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That's what I was afraid of Peter. I guess I will have to explore other hardware devices that do use Reader. Thanks for your quick reply!
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True. But aren't there also a handful of lightweight "PDF Creator" programs floating out there for Mac and PC? Some of them are even shareware or free. And couldn't one of them theoretically be ported into an iPad app? Remember that iWork and most document creators in MacOSX can create PDF documents. And that iWork itself (a very capable Mac/PC program) will be ported to the iPad. So making a jump in logic…. maybe a lightweight Mac/PC based PDF creator could be ported into an iPad app? Just a thought.
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Problem is Daniel that the pdf files that were created for these comics that I describe above will only hide the watermark if viewed using only Adobe Reader. No other pdf viewer I've tried does this, so for me it seems that my options are, well, none!
-
John David,
I see your dilema, but there is an easy fix. It’s not in the reader you choose to use, but rather getting rid of that watermark on the original pdf(s).
I don’t have comic books, but I have tweaked around with numerous pdfs to get them to look optimal. My main pdfs are textbooks and mauals that I use for school, and I have lots.
A program called Abby Finereader 9.0 is what I for editing pdfs. You open the pdf in this program, and it can literally manipulate anything you want. Text, pictures, watermarks, etc. you can delete, change fonts, and more.
I then view these books on my iPod Touch 3rd gen with iSilo, a very handy program. iSilo will be available for the iPad too, and I have been in the process of fine tuning and perfecting all my pdfs to get ready for the iPad. The conversion from pdf to the iSilo docs is fairly simple and the viewing is great.
Anyways, hope this helps. Abby Finereader is pricey, but you can find torrents of it around the web.
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