2007
• Adobe discontinues development and support of FreeHand, the drawing application that it acquired through its merger with Macromedia.
• Esko and Artwork Systems merge to become EskoArtwork.
• Fuji starts shipping XMF, its new print production workflow which is based on PDF and the Adobe PDF Print Engine.
• PDF 1.7 becomes an official ISO-standard (ISO 32000) in December 2007. The final specs are published in March 2008.
• Social networks are the craze of the day so it is appropriate to mention that Prepressforums, the largest and best prepress related forum on the web, is bought by PrintPlanet. A lot of regular visitors migrate to the B4print forums.
• In its third reincarnation, this site moves from using static Dreamweaver pages to a database driven WordPress system.
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