Author Archives: Karl De Abrew

How to keep documents digital from day one…

Keeping on the “less-paper” theme — we’re constantly on the lookout for ways to keep paper as trees, and not churning out of printers.
Which is why we were pleased to see that long-time PDF expert, Shlomo Perets of MicroType, has just posted a “How-To” article showing how to allow comments to be posted in [...]

“Paperless offices” an elusive dream?

A recent report by market intelligence company IDC revealed that 60% of responding Australian businesses produced more paper print-outs today than they had five years ago. This figure makes the eager projections of the early noughties look rather optimistic. The problem? According to the report, poor planning and implementation of electronic document management systems underpin [...]

tag2find

Take a look at tag2find — it’s an interesting solution to the problem of tagging (and finding) everything on your desktop. You can download a “technical preview” for XP and Vista. At 2.3mb it’s a quick and easy download, although you will need the .NET framework.

Acrobat was nimble, Acrobat was quick

Looks like it’s action stations over at Adobe — my good mate Don from PDFzone reports that sources tell him that the new Acrobat.com may enable document sharing direct from their own servers.
As Don says, it might be of interest to small business, but for large business — there’s always an element of distrust or [...]

Don on DVD?

I was chatting with a good friend of mine, Don Fluckinger, about storage and retrieval of his various pieces of content all over the web and throughout print publications.
First up, a quick intro to Don: If you’re a member of the PDF world, you’d have definitely encountered his writings at PDFzone, and probably caught up [...]

Welcome to the Debenu Blog

With the first release of Benubird just around the corner we think it’s time to start letting everyone know a little more about what we’re doing. So let’s get started:
What is Benubird?
Almost a year ago, after over a decade of frustration at not being able to find a number of important documents, we first hatched [...]