Product Description

Ideal for business and creative professionals. Use Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software to use templates to unify a wide range of content in compelling PDF Portfolios apply permissions and passwords to help protect sensitive information gain the input you need through interactive document reviews that enable participants to see and build on other reviewers comments and build dynamic forms distribute and track forms and responses and easily export data for analysis and reporting.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #362 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 22020773
• Released on: 2008-07-14
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .51 pounds

Features

• Deliver the richest, most engaging PDF communications anytime, anywhere
• Unify the widest range of content--including documents, spreadsheets, e-mail, images, video, 3D, and maps--in a single compressed and organized PDF Portfolio
• Collaborate through shared document reviews, help protect and control sensitive information--quickly gain the input you need to efficiently develop and complete work
• Simplify the creation and completion of forms to efficiently analyze and use data
• Includes professional templates for PDF portfolios, Adobe Reader review and commenting, LiveCycle Designer ES for dynamic forms

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Communicate and collaborate more effectively and securely. Unify a wide range of content in a single organized PDF Portfolio. Collaborate through electronic document reviews. Create and manage dynamic forms. And help protect sensitive information.

Communicate and collaborate more easily and securely with Adobe PDF. For a more in-depth comparison, download a feature comparison (PDF format).

Deliver professional documents
Easily organize content from a variety of sources--including documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web pages--in a single searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your company logo and colors. Quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Create and manage forms
Simplify the creation and completion of forms to efficiently analyze and use data. Convert Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF forms with automatic recognition of fillable fields. Or use Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES software, a professional form design tool included with Acrobat 9 Pro software, to further customize and automate dynamic XML forms. Extend Acrobat functionality to Reader users so virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. And easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

Manage document reviews
Accelerate the exchange of ideas with colleagues, extended teams, and customers. Through easy-to-manage electronic document reviews, participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are being made, so you can quickly gain the input and consensus you need to efficiently develop and complete work. Enable virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software to participate in reviews, and use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Combine multiple files in a searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Brand it with your logo and include descriptions to guide recipients through the contents.

Acrobat lets you combine files from multiple applications into a single Adobe PDF document.

With a scanner and Acrobat's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, you can turn stacks of paper documents into easily searchable electronic PDF archives.

Help protect sensitive information
Control access to and use of PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity. Set document permissions to define whether a file can be printed or changed. Apply passwords to help restrict document access. Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive information. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document security policies to precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.

Top reasons to buy Acrobat 9 Pro

Deliver a compelling branded experience using PDF Portfolios
Bring multiple files together in a single organized and interactive PDF Portfolio. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your logo and include descriptions to guide recipients through the contents.

Help protect your documents
Use passwords to control access to PDF documents. Use permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering. Save passwords and permissions as security policies that can be easily applied to new PDF files.

Easily create and manage electronic forms
Build dynamic forms, distribute and track forms and responses, and easily export data for analysis and reporting.

Manage and track electronic document reviews
Gain the input you need through interactive document reviews that enable participants to see and build on other reviewers' comments, which can be sorted by author, date, or page. Use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Include Adobe Reader users
Enable users of free Adobe Reader software to digitally sign documents, participate in shared document reviews, and save forms locally. By extending Acrobat functionality to Reader users, virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate.

Synchronize document views
Provide clarity and enhance discussion by e-mailing a PDF document and walking recipients through it in real time by controlling the exact page view they see.

Remove sensitive information
Use redaction tools to black out sensitive text, illustrations, or other information, permanently deleting the content from the PDF document. Inspect PDF documents for metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and remove before distributing to others.

Compare PDF documents
Automatically highlight the differences between two versions of a PDF document, including text and images, so you can quickly and easily identify what has changed.

Improve print processes
Help control costs and reduce errors with automated output controls to preview, preflight, correct, and prepare PDF files for high-end print production and digital publishing.

Create and validate accessible PDF documents
Ensure your PDF documents are optimized for people with disabilities. Quickly evaluate, correct, and automatically tag PDF documents for optimized accessibility and reflow.

Customer Reviews

Save Your Money !
Save your money. The horror stories with this product are NOT exagerated!
This is a beta release at best. This is the crime of theft at worst. I have the boxed version acrobat 9 pro. I have three days of every permutation while trying to install and stabilize this "beta" software.
If you do not heed the warning as I did not. Plan to spend days if not weeks in particular opt for Adobe "support". In short I can not be negative enough about this product and the Adobe company.

Adobe Acrobat 9 -
I upgraded from Adobe Acrobat 8 at the suggestion of Adobe customer service. There is a known issue with Vista Business that causes the version 8 product to lose registration information thus rendering the PDF printer capability inoperable. I print ALL my work directly to PDF and only create paper copies on rare occasions so I rely heavily on Acrobat to manage my printed documents.

The new features and changes in the processing capabilities make this a worthwhile upgrade in any case although I am disappointed that the printing process (PDF Printer) is no faster or more efficient than previous versions.

The Reference Standard
A friend of mine from work asked me why his PDFed document looked so bad. I asked him what version of Acrobat he was using and he answered that he was using some freeware program. That was his problem. He e-mailed me his document and I PDFed it through my Adobe Actobat 9 product and the product was marvelous.

I can't say enoough great things about this product. It integrates with (on my computer):

- MS Word 2007
- MS Excel 2007
- MS Visio
- MS Project
- Explorer 8

Runs on Windows 7 and Integrates natively with my Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Photoshop CS4.

There are a lot of customizable functions in the product that allows you to create different quality PDFs and an ability to merge different PDFs into one PDF document. You can create forms too and send documents out for revisions from your users.

Is the product perfect? No. I must say that I've had problems with the Update feature from Adobe. Once, I had to reinstall my entire operating system to get it to work: that was a real bummer and I seriously urge Adobe to fix those problems with their updater programs.

However the product itself is great. In my opinion, accept no substitutes. Use Adobe Acrobat. It's the standard.

SHOULD YOU UPGRADE FROM ACROBAT 7?
- If you're going to Windows 7 -- YES, Acrobat 7 won't work with Windows 7
- If you're running any CS4 product -- YES, the updater issues alone are enough to upgrade

SHOULD YOU UPGRADE FROM ACROBAT 8?
- If you're running Windows 7 -- Depends, Acrobat 8 will work with Windows 7 (I had it running)
- If you're running any CS4 product -- YES, the updater issues alone are enough to upgrade
- If you're only using Acrobat 8 --- Depends, it really depends on if you're using some of the Adobe 9 specific features (mentioned in the sales documentation above).