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Topic: Re: Acrobat Elements for Mac? (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Mac Issues, Msg: 89764
From: prodok
Date: 6/13/2003 09:38 AM

It is Windoof only.

Keep in mind that this product is aimed at big corporations
(considering the minimum number of licences is 1000). Also, if you
look at what you get, it is very much Windows stuff anyway (Acrobat
Elements is a package consisting of Adobe Reader 6, a headless
Distiller, and the PDFMaker macros for MS-Office.

Adobe Reader 6 is available for Mac. The PDFMaker macros for
MS-Office on Mac are kind of jokes anyway, because the Mac version of
MS-Office does by far not provide the macro capabilities comparable
to the Windows version (which means that it is not Adobe to blame,
but Microsoft). Which keeps us with the headless Distiller. Now, in
order to create the Distiller Parameters, you will need an Acrobat 6
(Standard or Pro), and as those parameters are platform independent,
they can be created and tested on the Mac platform.

The conclusion is that one can use the Macs sitting around in that
corporate network can be used as "master" machines.

And if there are organizations with a considerable number of Macs,
which would get into the "Elements" range, there are always
alternatives (from Adobe or someone else).

Hope, this can help.


Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering
Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland

Fax: +41 1 700 20 37
or +1 815 425 6566
e-mail: mailto:max@prodok.com
http://www.prodok.com



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>Is Acrobat Elements windows only? Or both mac and windows? I have
>searched and searched the Adobe Web site and can't find the answer.
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