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. Combine files from multiple applications, collaborate on documents via e-mail or server, and collect information with electronic forms. Protect sensitive information with passwords and permissions. Enable users of Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8) to participate in document reviews, fill and save forms, and digitally sign documents.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2149 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 12020351
• Released on: 2006-11-09
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Format: DVD-ROM

Features

• Enable anyone using free Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8) to participate in document reviews, fill and save electronic forms offline, and digitally sign documents.
• Combine documents, drawings, and rich media content into a single, polished Adobe PDF document. Optimize file size and arrange files in any order regardless of file type, dimensions, or orientation.
• Send documents for review and track which reviewers have contributed feedback. Compile comments into a single PDF document with one-button ease and sort them by author, date, or page.
• Create Adobe PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Office applications. Windows users can also create Adobe PDF documents from Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, AutoCAD, and Lotus Notes.
• Combine multiple files as PDF documents in a searchable, sortable PDF package that maintains the individual security settings and digital signatures of each included PDF document.

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Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional for Macintosh software enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection. Protect sensitive information with passwords, permissions, and digital signatures. Enable users of Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8) to participate in document reviews, fill and save forms, and digitally sign documents.

Create and optimize Adobe PDF documents
Create an Adobe PDF document from Microsoft Office or any application that prints. Easily convert and optimize documents, spreadsheets, e-mails, websites, and technical drawings into more secure Adobe PDF files that preserve the formatting and integrity of the original files. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Enable Adobe Reader (version 7.0 or 8) users to participate in document reviews, digitally sign documents, and fill in and save PDF forms. Then organize comments from multiple reviewers with Acrobat's sorting and filtering tools.

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

Combine files from multiple applications
Easily assemble documents, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mails, web pages, forms, CAD drawings, and diagrams into a single Adobe PDF document. Present files in your preferred order, regardless of file type, paper size, or orientation. Embed multimedia, 3D designs, audio, and video for a richer experience.

Enhance and extend document collaboration
Accelerate feedback and approvals with robust tools for initiating, managing, and tracking document reviews. Enable Adobe Reader (version 7.0 or 8) users to participate in document reviews with commenting tools. Reviewers can use familiar commenting tools—including sticky notes, stamps, highlighter, pencil, strikethrough, callout, dimension lines, shapes, and clouds—for review and markup of Adobe PDF files. Merge feedback into a single PDF file to reconcile comments.

Streamline data collection with Adobe PDF forms
Automate manual entry and help reduce costly errors by managing information electronically with PDF forms. Easily create a wide range of electronic forms for distribution through e-mail or on the web. Enable users of free Adobe Reader (version 7.0 or 8) to fill and save forms (for ad-hoc forms distribution and data collection for up to 500 people.). Capture and consolidate inbound data into spreadsheets or back-end systems.

Apply advanced document security and controls
Control access to and use of Adobe 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. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document control policies to precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.

Top reasons to buy Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

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

• Enable advanced features in Adobe Reader — Enable anyone using free Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8) to participate in document reviews, fill and save electronic forms offline, and digitally sign documents.
• Combine and optimize documents — Combine documents, drawings, and rich media content into a single, polished Adobe PDF document. Optimize file size and arrange files in any order regardless of file type, dimensions, or orientation.
• Accelerate document reviews — Send documents for review and track which reviewers have contributed feedback. Compile comments into a single PDF document with one-button ease and sort them by author, date, or page.
• Save in Microsoft Word — Save Adobe PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables, to facilitate reuse of content.
• Easily create Adobe PDF documents — Create Adobe PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Office applications.
• Apply passwords and assign permissions — Restrict access to Adobe PDF documents using 128-bit encryption. Set document permissions to help restrict who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.
• Permanently remove sensitive information — Permanently remove metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and use redaction tools to permanently delete sensitive text, illustrations, or other content.
• Archive papers and e-mails for easy search and retrieval — Scan paper documents with OCR technology to create compact, searchable Adobe PDF documents. Convert Microsoft Outlook e-mail archives to Adobe PDF to facilitate search and retrieval.
• Generate professional, print-ready files — Automate the preflight process and correct issues that might compromise print quality without creating a new Adobe PDF document.

• Combine multiple files into one PDF package — Combine multiple files as PDF documents in a searchable, sortable PDF package that maintains the individual security settings and digital signatures of each included PDF document.
• Auto-recognize form fields — Automatically locate form fields in static PDF documents and convert them to interactive fields that can be filled electronically by anyone using Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8).

Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source.

• Manage shared reviews — Easily conduct shared reviews — without IT assistance — that allow review participants to see one another's comments and track the status of the review.
• Enable advanced features in Adobe Reader — Enable anyone using free Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8) to fill and save electronic forms offline and digitally sign documents.
• Permanently remove sensitive information — Permanently remove metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and use redaction tools to permanently delete sensitive text, illustrations, or other content.
• Save in Microsoft Word — Take advantage of improved functionality for saving Adobe PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables.
• Enjoy improved performance and support for AutoCAD — More rapidly convert AutoCAD drawing files into compact, accurate PDF documents, without the need for the native desktop application.
• Take advantage of a new, intuitive user interface — Complete tasks more quickly with a streamlined user interface, new customizable toolbars, and a "Getting Started" page to visually direct you to commonly used features.

Customer Reviews

BIG, BIG CAVEAT!
If you have ever purchased a digital edition of a book from this site or another site in the past, do yourself a favor and download Adobe Reader 7 while it is still available from the Adobe folks as many digital books cannot be read through Adobe Professional 8 and/or the new "Digital Editions" website which Adobe will redirect you to if you try to open a book previously purchased. (I have three digital books purchased which would not open until I downloaded Adobe Reader 7.) ..... Also, for those wishing to combine PDFs, the fastest and easiest program is one called Combine PDF. It is free, but the author accepts donations. Google it or go to monkeybreadsoftware.de. And finally, if you upgraded to Leopard, some of the functions of Adobe 8 Professional will not work until Adobe updates sometime in January 2008; no updates for Adobe 7 Professional are in the works.

A great text editing product
I was very pleasantly surprised with this release. I had used Acrobat years ago and always found it lacking compared to Microsoft Word. However, it has surpassed most of Word's capabilities. The ability to generate a document that people can edit directly, with only acrobat reader installed has helped me significantly in my multi-platform work environment.

The only thing missing is a true index capability. The lack of that feature would significantly hamper anyone who wanted to use this to generate true documentation.

Bad License Policy
Good upgrade in terms of features. Essential for Vista. However, the license policy ignores modern life. Most business workers have 3 machines: 1) a desktop at work, 2) a desktop at home, and 3) a portable for travel. The license permits only two installations, which Adobe monitors. According to Adobe customer service, you can always buy a second license. I'm sure that spending the extra money will make you feel really good about Adobe. Even Microsoft recognizes modern life and permits 3 installations.