Adobe has segmented Acrobat into three distinctly separate products. Check out our in-depth learning center on the biggest release since 1.0.
The Planet PDF team gives you the quick wrap, explores the key new features -- including PDF creation, commenting & reviewing, file optimizing, document searching, adding stamps and text -- and explains feature by feature the differences between Professional and Standard versions.
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Adobe has segmented Acrobat into three distinctly separate products, with successively greater features, benefits and prices. Acrobat 6.0 is a well and truly mature product, in fact, 'mature' is our Acrobat 6.0 one word summary. Planet PDF's Karl De Abrew gives you our take.
With the advent of the slick new Acrobat product line for version 6.0, questions abound in forums and discussion lists throughout the PDF World. In this article, Planet PDF attempts to clarify the distinction between the two products and demystify the selection process for prospective users.
The latest release has definitely improved the ease of PDF creation. Adobe's marketing calls this 'one button' or 'one step' PDF creation and in most cases it really is that easy.
Central to the concept of PDF as a ubiquitious electronic document is its continued development and support of collaboration tools that keep users round tripping documents in electronic form.
Both Acrobat Standard and Professional include a menu item (File, Reduce File Size) for reducing the file size of the current document. Professional includes additional new optimization tools.
Acrobat 6 now allows you to search multiple PDF documents, albeit somewhat more slowly, without first having to index them with Catalog. In addition, the search user interface has been redesigned to be, not surprisingly, more Web oriented in its look and feel.
It's the end of the financial year and some lucky souls are expecting a tax return. Whether or not the dollars are stacking up for you, it's worth keeping in mind this new PDF tool from Squawkfox.
OK, so you want to stamp your document. Maybe you need to give reviewers some advice about the document's status or sensitivity. This tip from author Ted Padova demonstrates how to add stamps with the Stamp Tool along with related comments.
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