In a Thursday disclosure, some security researchers have pointed out that a new PDF attack campaign has been foiled by Abode’s Reader X – the company’s last year Reader upgrade which features a specifically-designed “sandbox” for protecting users from PDF exploits.

The number one maker of graphic-design programs, Adobe Systems Inc's forecast fiscal first-quarter profit that surpassed analysts' estimates, boosted by resurgent sales of the company's desktop-publishing software.

In a Thursday blog post, Abode said that it had patched a number of vulnerabilities in its Shockwave Player; but also warned alongside that a new critical vulnerability in Abode Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x is being exploited to attack computers that run the popular PDF viewer software.

At the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, Adobe’s chief technology officer Kevin Lynch outlined the expanse of the company’s product lines – which range from Web sites to Flash-based games – and announced a few new products.

In a move that will apparently bolster Abode Systems’ influence over the popular document format, the company Monday unveiled the Acrobat X – the latest version of Abode’s Acrobat suite of software for creating and viewing PDF files.

While Adobe recently launched the Acrobat’s X family of productivity software, the company said that it will be launching the product both in the standard and pro formats from day one. The company also made it clear at the outset that with new versions of Reader and Acrobat, it also made the pre-announcement of the upcoming online services.

Apple has reportedly lifted the ban denying app developers from using Adobe's Flash software and at the same time various other third party developers tools on their product offerings.

Adobe has brought forward the Packager for iPhone tool, developed especially to convert Flash applications into iOS apps.

The step has been taken in order to Apple's continuum of withdrawing restrictions imposed prior on the use of third part developer tools in form of apps in the platform.

According to security researchers, the critical unpatched Adode Reader and Acrobat vulnerability, which was first noticed by Washington-based researcher Mila Parkour on Tuesday, is “clever” as well as “impressive.”

A bug in Adobe’s Reader and Acrobat software, which was discovered last month by researcher Charlie Miller, will soon be fixed and an emergency patch too, will be soon issued, says Adobe.