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: #3043 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 22020441
• Released on: 2006-11-09
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

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 Windows 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.

Note: This is an upgrade version.

Top reasons to upgrade to Acrobat 8

Create and optimize 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, 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.

Acrobat 8.0 Professional has a new, more intuitive user interface. View larger.

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 toolsâ€"including sticky notes, stamps, highlighter, pencil, strikethrough, callout, dimension lines, shapes, and cloudsâ€"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

• Enable advanced features in Adobe Reader â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" Save Adobe PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables, to facilitate reuse of content.

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

• Create advanced forms â€" Design dynamic, interactive forms to collect and aggregate data through email or on the web with included Adobe LiveCycle Designer software.
• Easily create Adobe PDF documents â€" 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.
• Apply passwords and assign permissions â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" Easily conduct shared reviews â€" without IT assistance â€" that allow review participants to see one another's comments and track the status of the review.
• Enable advanced features in Adobe Reader â€" 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 â€" Permanently remove metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and use redaction tools to permanently delete sensitive text, illustrations, or other content.
• Archive Microsoft Outlook e-mail in PDF â€" Configure Acrobat 8 Professional to automatically archive e-mail in Microsoft Outlook for easy search and retrieval.
• Archive Lotus Notes e-mail â€" Convert e-mail in Lotus Notes to Adobe PDF to facilitate searching, archiving, and retrieval.
• Save in Microsoft Word â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" 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

Maybe this will improve, but Quality Control for Adobe went down
I use Adobe Acrobat Professional extensively both as an attorney and as a researcher/author. Because of the new features advertised which would enhance Acrobat storage of PowerPoint presentations, I bought it off the shelves at a local Staples office supply dealer. I am proficient at my own installations and expected no trouble on this. It acted like a virus. The program did not finish installing. Worse yet, it corrupted the underlying 7.0 installation and fixed that so the Windows Controller program could not install it. I had to hack through the registry to remove traces of it. Finally I got to a stage where it appeared to be going through the registry process again. Then I received the coup de grace -- a BAD SERIAL NUMBER MESSAGE. I checked carefully and it matched the serial number exactly as on the label sent by Adobe inside its factory package. I used MicroSoft OneNote to make a colored screen copy of this phenonema and marched the package back to Staples where they refunded my money. It's too bad about the 20 plus billable hours as a lawyer lost to this process. My experiences in calling Adobe in the past when I puzzled through a far lesser discourage me from wanting to talk to their technical support people (who too often know less than me given the increasingly apparent out-sourcing to people who read from a script and give us credit for knowing far less than we do). At any rate, I am now bitter. My 7.08 installation of Adobe worked great on my favorite computer where I had the bulk of my multimedia presentations which I hoped to reduce complete with sounds to the Adobe 8.0 format. I suspect that wrong serial numbers were slapped on the packages. I am deeply disappointed, even ANGRY at the inconvenience this has caused me. I took it home and tried it on my desktop there and it also would not complete the installation and ruined my chances of a clean uninstallation of 7.0. Deactivation of 7.0 could not take place either after installation of 8.0. I don't know what Adobe was thinking -- or if they were thinking. I have been a loyal customer of theirs for many years, but I'm thinking distinctly non-charitable thoughts about them this early morning. I hope they get their act together -- soon. They owe us all a quick fix and patch and they need DEEP REPENTANCE for the damage this did to Windows XP home installations which also appear to be corrupted in the process of installing this "upgrade" program which acts more like a computer worm or virus than a program.

Unable to install 8, while version 7 works perfectly.
After 25 years of building PC, and installing software, beta testing software, I am unable, even with Adobe's technical support staff to install Acrobat Version 8. Software gets to the end of the install process and stalls. No combination of repair, uninstall, reinstall, registry cleaning, advice from THREE technical support staff after hours on the telephone can solve the problem. Using XP, with all the latest upgrades, defragging the drives, with 2 MB RAM, and a Adobe Tech support clean registry still fails to properly install the software.

Still a lot to learn
I purchased this upgrade from Pro V7 which started acting quirky and unstable. The Adobe user interface continues to be non-Windows conforming and requires a little study before 'getting it.' I spent a lot of time initially customizing the toolbars to put back the same features I commonly used in version 7. The status bar at the bottom of the window with navigation controls no longer exists and I had to customize the toolbar to show those buttons as well. The overall interface is cleaner and the toolbars are more configurable than before.

As with many office applications I expect to be using only 50% or less of the possible features offered in this package. I chose Pro instead of Standard mainly for the forms features which I've used previously. This version does a better job converting and merging multiple documents into a single PDF. It offers a feature to bind together various documents besides PDF format into a single file, much like discarded MS Office Binder of long ago.

I am very leery of installing Adobe products (I have two others) because my experience is that something usually goes wrong. This upgrade installation went well enough but it didn't pick up my default Acrobat settings from version 7. A recent auto update failed to install properly but finally worked itself after several re-boots. When this update finally completed a request to register the product appeared (of course long ago registered when originally instealled). As I said - quirky installations.