Product Description

Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard software enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution and collaboration. Combine files from multiple applications, such as text files, spreadsheets, presentations, and web pages, into a single, polished Adobe PDF document. Protect sensitive information with passwords and permissions, and conduct collaborative document reviews by e-mail or server.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #342 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 22002185
• Released on: 2006-11-09
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

• Combine multiple files into a searchable, sortable PDF package that maintains the individual security settings and digital signatures of each included PDF document.
• Combine documents, drawings, and rich media content into a single, polished Adobe PDF document. Arrange source files in any order regardless of file type, dimensions, or orientation.
• Scan paper documents with OCR technology to create compact, searchable Adobe PDF documents. Convert Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes e-mail archives to Adobe PDF to facilitate search and retrieval.
• Create Adobe PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office applications, including Access, Outlook, and Publisher, as well as Lotus Notes.
• Save Adobe PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables, to facilitate reuse of content.

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Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard for Windows software enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution and collaboration. Combine files from multiple applications, such as text files, spreadsheets, presentations, and web pages, into a single, polished Adobe PDF document. Protect sensitive information with passwords and permissions, and conductcollaborative document reviews by e-mail or server.

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

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, and forms into a single Adobe PDF document. Present files in the order you want them, regardless of file type, paper size, or orientation.

Streamline document feedback and reviews
Accelerate feedback and approvals with robust tools for initiating, managing, and tracking document reviews. 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 file to reconcile comments.

Apply document security and controls

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

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 documents to manage their status and help prevent changes. 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 upgrade to Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard

• Combine multiple files into one PDF package — Combine multiple files into a searchable, sortable PDF package that maintains the individual security settings and digital signatures of each included PDF document.
• 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.
• Archive Microsoft Outlook e-mail in PDF — Configure Acrobat to automatically archive e-mail in Microsoft Outlook for easy search and retrieval.
• Archive Lotus Notes e-mail — Convert e-mail in Lotus Notes to Adobe PDF to facilitate searching, archiving, and retrieval.
• 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.
• Remove hidden information — Inspect PDF documents for hidden information, including metadata, annotations, attachments, form fields, layers, and bookmarks, and selectively delete as needed.

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

• Enjoy enhanced OCR capabilities — More accurately scan paper to generate searchable Adobe PDF documents with the newly enhanced OCR engine.
• 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.
• Use enhanced review and markup tools — Take advantage of enhancements to review tools, including a single, organized toolbar and easier, more accurate placement and resizing of markup items.
• Create in PDF/A for archiving — Create documents in PDF/A, the ISO standard for long-term archiving of electronic documents.

Customer Reviews

Be aware of the painful Adobe activation process
Please see reviews of the previous version 7.0. The Adobe activation process can cause a lot of continuing problems for legitimate users of this software. Too bad such good software is hampered by such a process. Being in the software business, I don't mind companies worrying about piracy and taking some measures but this is a bit too much. You might need to allow the software to access the internet regularly to keep your activation (and not bother you with notices of reactivation) but that also means you open it for Adobe to do their push marketing into their software. I have used Adobe products for over 15 years and have always liked them. Too bad, they have lost the customer focus in their rage for software piracy and greed for intrusive marketing.

Adobe needs a form filling version for lower price - Try CutePDF
I did some research and found a nice product, that is essentially Acrobat Standard Edition called CutePDF Professional. Price was only $50 and comes with a form filler product to enter/save data in PDF forms ($30 if you only want their form filler product). Can also edit PDF form fields, merge PDF's, and change PDF page odering (all handy for when I scan stuff to PDF and find out after the scan I messed up one page, I can fix this now!). This is the basic funcitonality I needed and was bummed that I thought I had to drop a few hundred dollars on Acrobat Standard Edition to do this. I was a hairs breath from buying Standard Edition but found CutePDF with a little web searching while looking for used copies of Standard edition. Only thing I would "like" that it doesn't do is edit existing text in a PDF (not text form fields, those are fine), but then again, you need Acrobat Professional to do that anyway, and that's very expensive. Hopefully, CutePDF wil motivate Adobe to create another Acrobat product category for we simple home users that need such basic functionality (especially saving forms) a few times a year but don't want to drop a few hundred dollars to get this. Yes, Reader can save forms IF the person sending you the form enabled it to allow Reader to save form data, but that's a pain, since that doesn't always happen, and forms are passed along or downloaded and this is an impossibility sometimes. They should make a Reader that allows saving forms after entering the form data for say a price of $40. I would have bought that in a second. The lack of this product led me to find CutePDF. By the way, the $50 price for CutePDF Pro appears to be a special price offer (it's normally $90), but form filler appears to have a standard price of $30.

Unbearably SLOW!!
This is the worst software application that I have ever purchased. It takes an average of three seconds to page up or down and an average of one second per line when scrolling through a document. It is this slow regardless of the size of the document. It is not my computer, because version 7.0 worked perfectly. My computer has a 2.6GHz processor and 1Gbyte of memory. Don't believe their marketing propaganda which claims that they have improved the operating speed over the 7.0 version. Some are blaming the performance problems on their licensing processes that are constantly running in the background. If you don't need the added features in this product stick with the free PDF readers that are available on the Internet such as Foxit.