Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.2 Candidate now available

On Tuesday, Adobe released a public beta of version 4.2 of its Lightroom image editing program. The Lightroom 4.2 update includes support for many new cameras and lens profiles, and fixed some bugs. It's a free update for all current Lightroom 4 customers.

I've been following the 'slow issues' for a bit and am getting ready to buy a new computer.  I'm working now with a somewhat underpowered (RAM and I'm maxed out) older custom Win machine and have been trying to decide what specs I need to give to my computer guys for the new one (I've been accumulating info on best build for Photoshop and figuring they would be the same for Lightroom but some in other threads have indicated that that didn't always work out but assume it is being addressed).

I've used LR since beta one and even slow, love LR 4.1.  Happy to see so many bug fixes.

The next is from adobe about Fixed Issues in Lightroom 4.2 release candidate:
- Background graphics that are applied to a Book globally may not appear as expected in a Saved PDF.
- Double byte characters are not being exported to PDF in Books.
- Folder stacks with virtual copies get unstacked when moving to another folder.
- Stacked photos get hidden in both the Grid view and Filmstrip. This occurs when photos get unstacked as a result of enabling auto-stacking.
- Errors encountered when publishing videos to Facebook through the Facebook Publish Service.
- Users may have occurred problems when trying to enter the Web Module from Library.
- Unable to edit JPEG photos in Photoshop Elements.
- Certain book covers had spine text positioned in a Horizontal manner, not Vertical.
- Photos were exported with original GPS coordinates recorded by the camera, not with the GPS coordinates updated in Lightroom.
- Keyboard shortcuts in the Develop module sometimes do not work when editing an image in Process Version PV2010.
- Parents and synonyms of "do not export" keywords also do not export.
Release Notes:
This release of Lightroom 4.2 is prerelease software and is designed for evaluation purposes only. The software contained within the installer is not final; but many portions of the technology are fully implemented and ready for you to try and discuss.

More info about Frequently Asked Questions, System Requirements, you can view here:http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4-2/?tabID=details#tabTop

Easy to edit pdf files online within firefox

How to edit pdf files online in your Firefox?

In the ADD-ONS of Mozilla, we will find this extension, called PDFescape, it enables you to edit pdf files online free. And it doesn't rely on Adobe Reader at all.

pdf escape

Here is it's features:

1.Three types of editing is possible, to name them, Insert mode–to insert text, image, line, etc., Annotate mode–add a sticky note, or highlight something, Page edit–rotate, move or delete a page.

2.Filling PDF forms becomes a damn easy job.

3.Open an online PDF file in just one click; this works even if there is no PDF reader installed on your system, like Google Chrome (has the ability to open a PDF even in absence of a PDF reader installed on the system).

4.You can also save the changes, download, or print directly from the interface.

5.If you are a frequent user on the PDFescape’s web interface, you can even

6.upload a file instantly. No need to manually go to the PDFescape website.

But if you open a local PDF file with Firefox, PDFescape is not activated. When I tried a PDF link hosted on my own local web server, this option was greyed-out. So, it seems that documents on your own machine are strictly off-limits.

In the editor, modifying existing text doesn't really work. At best, you can overprint your own text on the PDF page, which might be OK to fill in an online form. The Annotation feature works well enough.

Can't view a pdf in safari

Question:I can not view a pdf in safari and I used to be able to. I can view pdfs in preview but i often click on pdf links and it takes me to a blank page. I have looked into it and I found that adobe acorbat is the recomended viewer for safari. I have tried to find out if i have still got it and I have found a few acrobat plug-ins. Does anybody know how to fix this problem?

Solution:
Quit Safari. In the Finder, select Go ▹ Go to Folder... from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-G. Copy the line of text below into the box that opens, and pressreturn:
/Library/Internet Plug-ins

From the folder that opens, remove any items that have the letters “PDF” in the name. You may be prompted for your login password. Then launch Safari and test.
If you still have the issue, repeat with this line:
~/Library/Internet Plug-ins

If you don’t like the results of this procedure, restore the items from the backup you made before you started. Relaunch Safari again.

This also help me, thanks for Linc Davis's answer.

How to create PDF Documents on iPhone and iPad

Sometimes we created a pdf from a web page, ms word, excel, ppt, images, and saved the web page as pdf document, then email to a recipient. Could we do this on Iphone and Ipad?

The next we suggest two  tools on creating pdf files.

Adobe CreatePDF application is now available on iOS. With this, Adobe brings rich, high-fidelity and Acrobat-like PDF creation to the iOS devices.  You can now convert all your documents on iPad, iPhone & iPod touch devices to PDF for reliable, secure sharing and viewing across PCs, tablets & Smartphones.
Adobe CreatePDF for iOS is available for purchase at the iTunes App Store for $9.99.

It will Convert all your documents to PDF files that look exactly as original using the same technology as Adobe Acrobat. Convert email attachments or files stored on the cloud or any application by sending them to the Adobe CreatePDF app using "Open In". Also You can open the converted PDF files in other applications and send as email attachments.

Supported File Formats include:
MS Word (docx, doc), Excel(xlsx, xls), PowerPoint (pptx, ppt)
Adobe Illustrator (ai), Photoshop (psd) and InDesign (indd)
Images – JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF
RTF, Text and WordPerfect
OpenOffice and StarOffice documents

Also Save2PDF convert most file formats into a PDF including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Photos, Web Pages, Contacts and many more formats on your iPad or iPhone.
Create a single PDF from multiple files even if they are a different format. Email and print finished PDF directly from within Save2PDF. Print or convert PDFs from other apps using Open in or other methods.

More:http://mobile.eurosmartz.com/products/save2pdf.html

All above two tools could create pdf on Ipad and Iphone easily.

Adobe announced a new website tool-Muse

Someone said, "Muse is actually great, am a noob designer and needed something like Muse to design with HTML5 fast and then build background base code with dreamweaver."

Do you know what they are talk about? The next we will introduce the new website tool, "Muse".

Adobe Official has announced a public beta of a new website tool for graphic designers. Muse, according to Adobe's press release "enables graphic designers to design and publish professional, unique HTML websites without writing code or working within restrictive templates". Adobe hopes that Muse will be for HTML5 what Dreamweaver has been for HTML4. The company claims Muse leverages the latest web standards including HTML5 and CSS3, where browser support exists, and "combines precise design and creative freedom with innovative frameworks for adding navigation, widgets and HTML to include advanced interactivity on a site".

And I like what Adobe has done with InDesign. I have used it many times to produce commercial flyers for a company I worked for. Sounds like a nice interface for Muse and is more like the good thinking that came from Macromedia who made the best UI.

I wish Adobe had not bought out Macromedia. Or I wish that Adobe would have been forced to donate Fireworks to Gimp. Adobe has done little with those properties compared to what Macromedia was doing. Which is good in that Adobe has not mutilated Fireworks too much since they owned it, but bad in that it has not been developed into the Photoshop killer it should have been.

Also you can view this news:Adobe launches new website tool, Muse,