It’s hard to keep up with all the new product releases from Adobe. This one is worth a look if you develop ebooks or want to read them offline.
Adobe Digital Editions lets you read and manage eBooks and other digital publications with some very slick management features.
The user interface is fantastic. Adobe has built Digital Editions from the ground up as a lightweight, rich Internet application (RIA). Digital Editions works online and offline, and supports both PDF and XHTML-based content.
The download is only 2.5 MB including Adobe Flash Player 9.
With an RIA service model, users always have the latest version of Digital Editions, taking advantage of new features and security enhancements. http://labs.adobe.com
What is Adobe Digital Editions?
Adobe Digital Editions is a new rich Internet application (RIA) designed for digital publishing. It allows users to easily acquire, manage, and consume eBooks and other kinds of digital publications.
How does Adobe Digital Editions differ from Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat?
Adobe Reader supports a variety of workflows beyond consuming eBooks and other commercially-published content, such as interactive forms, digital signatures, and other workflows that involve integration with other office applications.
This means that Reader’s functionality is not optimized for consumer-level eBook reading. Likewise, Adobe Acrobat offers advanced document generation and collaboration functionality.
It extends eBook capabilities (integrated in Reader and Acrobat) via a simplified, content-centric user interface. Digital Editions is distributed as a web-based RIA, ensuring that users will always have the current up-to-date version of the software.
Does Digital Editions replace Adobe FlashPaper?
Maybe. Digital Editions delivers a lightweight Flash-based user experience for document viewing, and adds native PDF and XML document viewing capabilities, so that translation of content to SWF format is not required.
However, initially Digital Editions will not operate inside the browser, and requires a Player Add-in installation. Customers who require in-browser operation with the standard Flash Player may wish to continue to utilize FlashPaper, which remains a component of the Adobe Contribute product.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/digitaleditions/faq.html
Issues
Why do some PDF documents look different in Digital Editions beta than they do in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader?
Digital Editions uses Adobe PDF technology that has been optimized for small code size and lower system requirements.
This technology has shipped in hundreds of millions of mobile phones and other embedded devices. It is optimized for performance and on-screen readability, rather than graphics-arts or prepress-level fidelity.
Some minor differences in graphics and font rendering are therefore to be expected.
In addition, the Digital Editions PDF implementation does not support several enterprise-oriented PDF features. These features are not typically used in PDF-based eBooks and, if present, are gracefully ignored, but could cause certain documents to render incorrectly.
Which PDF 1.7 features are not supported by Digital Editions?
PDF interactive forms, JavaScript, digital signatures, 3D, and annotations are not supported by Digital Editions.
Try it: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/digitaleditions/
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