Author Archives: Karl De Abrew

Benubird Pro now freeware and relaunched as Benubird PDF 1.4

We’re tweaking our focus to take advantage of our strong PDF background (and what we see as the core of of the paperless trail today). So whilst we work behind-the-scenes on bolting on an even greater range of PDF features and options to Benubird, we’re making the current Benubird version freeware.

Quick PDF Tools contains a mighty box of free PDF tools

Check out our handy little freebie called Quick PDF Tools, it’s based on our royalty-free SDK, Quick PDF Library. In short, it allows you to perform some basic PDF-related functionality, right from Windows Explorer (in the context menu).

Debenu Releases Version 7.12 Of Its Popular PDF SDK, Quick PDF Library

We’re happy to announce the formal release of Quick PDF Library 7.12 our royalty-free PDF SDK which sports over 500+ functions for use with ASP, ActiveX, VB, VB Script, PowerBASIC, C++, C#, Delphi and more..

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 [...]

Introducing Benubird

We’re happy to announce that we now have a Technical Preview of Benubird available for download. Our goal is for Benubird to redefine a way of storing, managing and retrieving documents (and other types of files too) — regardless of wherever they’re stored within your system or network. Well, that’s our goal anyway. Give Benubird [...]

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 [...]