Product Description

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional software enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection. Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional software offers improved usability, as well as new features to better protect sensitive information and more easily collect and manage form data. Plus, enable additional features in Adobe Reader software, and take advantage of integration with new Acrobat Connect. Fully Packaged ...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #213 in Software
• Brand: Adobe Systems Inc.
• Released on: 2006-11-11
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP Professional
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 19.68" h x 19.68" w x 19.68" l, .62 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
To get their jobs done, knowledge workers in engineering, legal, sales & marketing, finance, human resources, IT and other professions need access to high-value information. Often, that information is obtained through shared documents, forms, 3D designs, spreadsheets, and presentations; in meetings; or through other means. As a result, ad-hoc collaboration among knowledge workers both inside and outside an organization is essential to gathering the information needed to get the job done. But there are many boundaries to collaboration and data sharing, such as security concerns and differing applications and computer platforms. New features and functionality in the Adobe Acrobat 8 software family make it easier than ever for knowledge workers to reliably and more securely collaborate and share data. Also new to the Acrobat 8 family is access to real-time collaboration capabilities. Simply by clicking the 'Start Meeting' button in all of the Acrobat 8 products and Adobe Reader 8 software; users can take advantage of Adobe Breeze Express software for real-time meetings over the Web.

The Acrobat 8 family helps users initiate, manage, and organize ad-hoc collaboration by creating and sharing content-rich documents; combining multiple files into a single, polished Adobe PDF document; managing and organizing feedback to expedite document collaboration; collecting and exchanging high- value information; and controlling document access with confidence.

The Acrobat family has been strengthened to help meet industry-specific requirements regarding information sharing. New tools allow users to permanently remove sensitive text, images, metadata, and other information in an Adobe PDF document. Converting complex, large-format documents into Adobe PDF is significantly faster, and industry-specific markup tools have been enhanced for easier use. New shared reviews streamline collaboration. Review initiators can enable users of free Adobe Reader 8 software to participate in shared reviews using intuitive Acrobat commenting tools. Collecting data from Adobe PDF forms is easy, as Adobe Reader 8 users can now electronically fill out, digitally sign, and locally save an electronic form and its data (when those capabilities have been enabled in Acrobat 8 Professional software and Acrobat 3D, Version 8.) And an enhanced interface lets users quickly choose the task or tool they need so they can get the job done even faster.

Acrobat 8 Professional
Acrobat 8 Professional includes a comprehensive set of tools for working with Adobe PDF. New and enhanced features make it easier than ever for workgroups and individuals in enterprises and industries such as Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) and legal to collaborate more efficiently and more securely share critical data. With high-value Adobe PDF document workflows, enterprises can help improve productivity, reduce costs, and speed development of products and services.

Take advantage of interface enhancements, including new customizable toolbars and a new Getting Started screen that visually directs users to the most-often used tasks and help sections.

Easily convert documents created in the widest array of authoring programs, including Microsoft Office applications, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Visio, and Autodesk AutoCAD into Adobe PDF files.

AutoCAD files can now be converted to Adobe PDF significantly faster and shared with any user of free Adobe Reader software for review and commenting.

Users can group related but separate documents together in a single Adobe PDF package, which makes it easier to add, extract, search, and browse only those files that are needed while also keeping digital signatures and security settings intact.

Comments added to a document in a shared review are automatically stored on virtually any file server, Web server, network directory, Microsoft SharePoint workspace or WebDAV server.

Reviewers can view and respond to comments as soon as the comments are available, which helps reduce redundancies and speed the review process. Turn on intuitive Acrobat review and commenting tools in Adobe Reader 8, enabling users of the free software to add comments to Adobe PDF files.

Adobe Reader 8 users can also fill out, digitally sign, and locally save Adobe PDF forms when enabled in Acrobat 8 Professional. Automatically add interactive form fields to static Adobe PDF and Microsoft Office files.

Aggregate forms automatically into an Adobe PDF package and export the data to a spreadsheet. Easily remove sensitive information, including metadata, from Adobe PDF documents.

Customer Reviews

Scanning problems
Like some of the posters above I feel completely cheated with the Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional. I could not get it to work on Dell PC which was pre-set with Vista so went on to my other Dell PC which has XP.

When scanning documents using an Epson DX4400 printer/scanner if I quickly click on the the scan tab on screen I might be lucky and get the scanner to work but even then after a few scans I get an Adobe error report saying the programme will have to end and do I want to send an error report etc. etc.

I would like to give Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional a minus rating but that is not an option on this site. The product is pure crap.

Pretty Good
I don't really understand what the other 2 reviewers who gave it low ratings are complaining about? Installs quickly and is pretty straight forward, easy to uninstall from the system, takes up not that much resources and has a great interface. Great Product overall, however there is one minor issue which is why i did not give it five stars.

When you write click on a file and select 'produce PDF', it gives me an unexpected error. This does not bother me because if you load up the document first and then produce PDF from the print options, it works fine and does what is says on the tin.

Program does not freeze when I use it although i do not know if this is an isolated bug or a more common bug with the unexpected error.

However, apart from that, no problems so far.

Excellent
Excellent piece of software, did exactly what it said and solved all my problems.

Can take up quite a bit of system resources but as long as you make sure it is compatible with your system you should not have a problem.