Entered CNET Catalog: 06/07/2008
SKU: 0883919145228
Manufacturer: Adobe Systems
Manufacturer description
Adobe Acrobat software enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection.Product summary
The good: Adobe Acrobat 9 wraps video and animation into PDFs; supports geospatial mapping and 3D images; enhances 256-bit encryption; improves form management and redaction; takes Web page snapshots; PDF Portfolios better bundle complex packages; free online tie-ins extend the tools and allow remote collaboration.
The bad: Adobe Acrobat 9 isn't a cinch to master; tech support is pricey; PowerPoint tie-ins and geospatial mapping are only available in Pro Extended.
The bottom line: This update should be worthwhile for security-minded businesses and creative firms. With Acrobat 9, Adobe brings new Web relevance to print-ready PDFs by enabling embedded video and animation. Forms, security, and overall ease of use are also enhanced.
User opinions
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Excellent Software
Pros: PDF Presentations
Presenter Included
Amazing Form Handling
Redaction
Cons: None so far...surprisingly
Lastly to the "reviewer" above. No its not a Microsoft product; dummy.
out of 5 user reviews
is this a microsoft product??
Pros: can't think of any
Cons: this is the worst adobe program i've ever used. it's like microsoft created it! confusing, doesn't work right, and buggy!!!!
need i go on??? nothing is intuative, it won't even let me save files. it's messed up.
out of 5 user reviews
This is a great upgrade. Make your PDF forms work.
Pros: Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended is a great upgrade from version Pro 7.0. This product makes fillable forms quick and easy. Very little editing required. I can now create nice packages to show various files within the same PDF window. Well done!!
Cons: Learning curve is a little deep. A little patience resolves that issue.
out of 5 user reviews
Dumb, Stupid, and did i mention it's Stupid?
Pros: It Creates PDFs and has a bunch of features.
Cons: Even on a high end machine, if you want to use advanced features like layering and stamp tools, it works very slow.
Updated on Sep 22, 2009I forgot to mention why it is such an issue to paste images. Acrobat distorts the clipboard images horizontally when I paste from Excel. And when I create a PDF from a clipboard image in Acrobat, it looks awful and assumes that I want the clipboard image to fit to an 8x11 sheet of paper.
Updated on Sep 22, 2009I forgot to mention why it is such an issue to paste images. Acrobat distorts the clipboard images horizontally when I paste from Excel. And when I create a PDF from a clipboard image in Acrobat, it looks awful and assumes that I want the clipboard image to fit to an 8x11 sheet of paper.
out of 5 user reviews
So far its just ok and still buggy
Pros: Its Acrobat it is great and improved typewriter tool
Cons: Lock ups and crashes some tools are bugged
Typewriter tool is improved!!!!!! Still a bit more they could do here with bold and italic but still scalable fonts is big improvement.
I have extended and have not fully explored but i think with an update or two it will be great however if i had tried before buy i probably would have waited for at least one update.
They have removed the paste ability of the snapshot tool within a PDF i just received this information from a tech reply.
Since i rely heavily on that tool for my purposes it is a downgrade
