Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Includes RSS?
November 22nd, 2004Who would have thunk it? When I think about RSS, the furthest thing from my mind is PDF. It looks like 7.0 will have a built-in aggregator that will convert RSS Feeds in PDF. Very odd, but interesting. Why would I want to convert RSS Feeds into PDF? Anyone?
From Planet PDF: “The ‘Track News’ functionality in Acrobat 6.0 has been separated out into the Tracker tool. The main addition to it is that you can also use the Tracker to subscribe to news feeds. If you’re not familiar with these, numerous sites these days offer syndicated ‘feeds’ that let you download a summary of each item into your ‘reader’ software; it’s just a matter of copying the link to the RSS, XML or RDF format service from a site and copying it into your news reader. The one in Tracker allows you to build summaries of all the items in PDF and lets you convert any of the items (usually Web pages) to PDF — handy if you want to archive them or print a copy for offline viewing.”
(link via LawLibTech)
July 14th, 2007 at 4:55 am
There are lots of reasons why RSS-to-PDF conversion is useful.
For example, academics / students that need to capture a permanent record of an RSS feed. Also, people wishing to read an RSS feed offline (e.g. on a PDA on a flight). You could even combine multiple feeds, to create your own e-magazine in PDF.
http://www.rss2.co.uk is a good example of a website that enables this to be done.