Acrobat eBook Reader 2.1 offers new features such as the ability to view the font of any Portable Document Format-based (PDF) Adobe eBook at a variety of resolutions and select the most pleasing to read on an LCD screen. If a user clicks on any word, the interactive dictionary appears with a definition. Additionally, where the publisher grants permission, users can share their eBook selections among Acrobat eBook Readers.

Beta versions of Acrobat eBook Reader 2.1 for Windows and Macintosh may be downloaded free from the Adobe web site.

With its new on-line career center, employers using MondoJobs.com will have targeted access to more than 2.2 million people living in the Tampa-St. Petersburg metro area. Job seekers will find not only local job listings but also will have complete access to more than 325,000 job postings throughout the CareerBuilder Network.

Pagelets are being used for partial page content, where they have largely replaced Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files, which suffer from limitations such as missing fonts, poor preview capabilities and weak output on non-PostScript devices. Pagelet provides standard transformations for full control over the placed PDF, including scale, position, ruler, rotate and snap-to-grid.

DeskNetAPS, an automation tool for mass customization and multiple-media publishing, enables Forbes.com to instantly publish pages of content from its magazine group, including FORBES, FORBES GLOBAL, FORBES ASAP and FORBES FYI. DeskNetAPS systematically captures and analyzes content created from a variety of applications, such as Quark XPress, and converts the multiple fonts, styles of headlines, graphics, sidebars, charts and tables into XML on-the-fly without disrupting Forbes.com's existing editorial and production processes.

Geac's Cyber$ell will provide Friday-Ad's sales staff with tools and functionality missing from their existing advertising system. The system is a modular tool comprising classified advertising, display-ad booking, Internet-ad booking, and customer relations and contract management, in a single SQL database system.

The company will now operate as Global Graphics Hardware and Global Graphics Software, with the names of the former subsidiary companies remaining as product brands. Global Graphics Hardware features brands in flexo and litho pre-press plate processing equipments, while digital printing software companies -- including Harlequin Ltd. and Jaws Systems Ltd. -- will form Global Graphics Software.

The software division has also announced it is shipping Jaws PDF Creator v2.0, the newest version of the company's tool for creating PDF files.

Essentially a printer driver that creates PDF files on Windows or Macintosh platforms, Jaws PDF Creator produces PDF 1.3 format files. It provides drag-and-drop processing through a desktop icon of PostScript and EPS files that are used in graphic design. Jaws PDF Creator 2.0 is a stand-alone PDF creation tool, which translates and renders files created in a wide range of office and page layout applications to the published PDF specification.

In addition, THE FORESTER, purchased by Northcliffe Newspaper Group, has been completely redesigned and is now produced using TERA's GN3 publishing system. Staff at THE FORESTER converted from manual Olivetti typewriters to GN3 within a week.

Also adopting MAMBO is PentaMark Worldwide of Detroit, a global communications agency that provides advertising, marketing, media planning and buying support for DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group worldwide. PentaMark will integrate the brand assets from its proprietary database into WebWare's tool.