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Adobe Digital Editions - 1.7.1

Read & manage eBooks & other digital publications.

All Time: (1.3)
This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 1.7.1
Release Date: 2009-07-02
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 1,285
Downloads (all versions): 4,524

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Product Description:

Adobe Digital Editions is an engaging new way to read and manage eBooks and other digital publications. Digital Editions is built from the ground up as a lightweight, Rich Internet Application (RIA). Digital Editions works online and offline, and supports PDF and XHTML�¢â?¬â??based content as well as Flash SWF for rich interactivity.

What's new in this version:

  • A bug has been fixed that caused users behind non-authenticated proxies to have to download and use the standalone installer. Authenticated proxies, though, are still not supported. Adobe is investigating solutions to providing this support. For more information, please see "Adobe Digital Editions installation fails in some proxy server networks" at this link.
  • In addition to installation via the seamless-download installer previously supported, Digital Editions can also be installed using a standalone installer. The standalone installer is documented in the Digital Editions 1.7 Standalone Installation Instructions. To get the installer, documentation and other information about Digital Editions and related products, please visit the Digital Publishing section of Adobe Developer Connection site.
  • Digital Editions continues to support the Sony® Reader, both the PRS-505A and the new PRS-700. Users of the original PRS-505 need to upgrade their firmware by visiting this link. They also MUST download the latest version of the Sony Ebook Library and run the installer. If they do not do this, Digital Editions will not be able recognize the PRS-505. Note that support
  • Digital Editions 1.7 continues to support named-authorization with an Adobe ID. Adobe strongly urges all users to take advantage of this feature. Users who decline to authorize for the Sony® Reader is available only on Windows. their computers with their Adobe ID can always take advantage of this feature at any time by selecting "Authorize This Computer..." from the Reading or Library menus. To find out why this is so important, please visit the Digital Editions FAQ page here and read the section on "Content Portability".
  • This release includes a fix for a potential security vulnerability when rendering JBIG2 image files.
  • This release also includes a fix for print resolution on the Mac. Previous versions were reverting to 72 DPI irrespective of what the eBook allowed. The new version allows printing to the maximum resolution the permissions allow or 300 DPI, whichever is less.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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Adobe Digital Editions Commentaryneeds page rotate.. among other things - Version: 1.7, 6/25/2009 10:33PM PST

Hobyx
It's very limited as a reader and a library. There's no page rotation, no page effects, no autoscroll, not very much of anything besides being a DRM client.
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Adobe Digital Editions ReviewAnother Waddling Turkey from Adobe - Version: 1.7, 4/16/2009 02:35PM PST

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rbryanh
It's glacially slow, it's ugly, and it's aggressively, hideously, and utterly un-Mac. It's an ill-conceived mediocrity - a Web 2.0 cloud fart inflicted upon your desktop.

No doubt it will become an industry standard through sheer force of monopoly.
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Adobe Digital Editions ReviewVersion 1.7 update - Version: 1.7, 3/24/2009 08:11AM PST

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iamdorian2
I know that Adobe no longer pushes this software on Versiontracker (or the competition's software site), and for good reason. The list of things one could say about this - in the negative - continue to move away from software performance issues, and into the realm of fascism. No matter what version you have, in order to even open this product Adobe forces you to submit to reloading their "latest" software version. Is this invasive, I am sure it is. Perhaps a programmer (who understands the FireWalls and other issues can tell us), but knowing Adobe's more recent pension for snooping, I'd say it is.

Additionally, what's the point of all this digital "convenience" of digital, if you can't even print or copy text from a book (this feature is turned on by more paranoid/reedy publishers of popular books to keep people from digitizing them - the Kolbrin comes to ind here). Might as well buy a REAL book, and scan what you want.

It's time to do for digital books, what is being done for music encryption - eliminate it and trust to a small loss in revenues for making this planet a nicer, friendlier planet. (What ever happened to that HitchHiker's Guide to the G_ entry, "Mostly Harmless?")

I suppose the next worse thing is the hardware-only solution of that jungle-named company, but that's another story...

Adobe, best of luck on everything . . . but this sort of software. Here's to ya!
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