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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | 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. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Package Length: | 9.4 inches | | Package Width: | 7.7 inches | | Package Height: | 2.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 29 reviews |
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| | System Requirements | | Platform: | Windows 2000 / Windows XP | | Media: | CD-ROM | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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| | 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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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 29 customer reviews )
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82 of 82 found the following review helpful:
 Good release, a bit glitchy though and more bloated than ever. Jan 11, 2007
By K. Osborne
Adobe comes out and delivers another fine Acrobat product. While I purchased this for the sole purpose of creating PDFs and forms we could email our customers, have them fill out, save and email back, the brief touches I've had with the automatic form generators have left me impressed. The user interface is well thought out and clean which is a touchy subject for me personally as a programmer who specializes in UI design. Everything is movable, hide-able and customizable in a new sharp looking set of toolbars that should feel right at home in Windows Vista.
But, while it's a fine product that loads quickly thanks to a pre-loader when Windows starts, it does suffer from it's share of problems. The new user interface, while fancy, is glitchy, and has crashed out the software on more than one occasion. Simple innocuous tasks such as dragging a form element into alignment can suddenly leave you staring dumbfounded at your desktop as Windows defends itself from some index out of bounds fault. Is it entirely stable? No, but sadly, it's up to par with 99% of the industry's X.0 release software standards; which means it's 98% usable, but don't hand your boss an unpadded deadline that doesn't take into account a few crashes here and there.
Finally, yes, while the price of RAM continues to decrease, the memory (and hard disk) footprint of software continues to increase to obscene levels. Make sure your office equipment is on the more modern side because it'll take up 20meg+ of your RAM just when the computer starts; which is in this IT professional's opinion, a hefty price to pay just to look at PDFs in my web browser or on my hard drive without a 20 second load-up delay. Load it up and create a PDF of a simple Word 2003 document that contains only a page of text, and task manager tells you it's now eating up 50 meg. In short, it won't run well on the bargain-basement Intel Celeron, 256meg Windows XP machine.
As a final note for those who aren't heavily into IT looking to buy this product for their small office, you need to be connected to the internet when this is installed and be absolutely sure you install it on the computer it's going to permanently reside on. Like most expensive modern business software, Acrobat requires an activation in the name of Digital Rights Management that records it's serial number and the hardware ID of the computer it's installed on and keeps it on file at Adobe. One copy of the software will let you install it on exactly one machine. Try to install it on another machine (even if the original machine got obsoleted, kicked the bucket or transferred to different personnel), and you'll be met with a "this is already installed, please buy another copy" message. DRM forces forethought in these modern times.
Overall, it's excellent software, and for the faults I listed, I still give it 4 stars because it's an extremely solid product that'll work hard for you. Expect the crashing issues to clear up as Adobe silently releases 8.0.1 and onward as free patches that will be downloaded automatically thanks to Adobe's built-in upgrade manager. While executives balked at the idea of office personnel with 1 gig of RAM in a common desktops a year ago, in reality, that's the working minimum these days for your office's power users who may have eight things open and/or running at once. It's a $50 upgrade that to a power user, saves about 5 minutes of worktime on every hour of computer use. Do the math and get them the tools they need because software like this won't be getting less bloated anytime soon.
Finally, if all you're looking at is to create PDF files, there are many smaller, cheaper programs out there that can easily do the task. You might want to hit up Google and investigate further.
33 of 33 found the following review helpful:
 FUBAR Oct 12, 2007
By Diego Banducci
Software that repeatedly crashes and requires multiple reloadings deserves NO STARS, but amazon does not allow that option, so this gets 1 star.
Having owned versions 4, 5, 6 and now 8, I've watched this product add features, and with them glitches. Would it be a great product if it worked? Yes. Unfortunately, it crashes, and crashes and crashes.
Adobe has already issued two update fixes, but still it crashes.
Not good.
UPDATE: Since writing the above, I have purchased a new HP desktop and Acrobat generally works on it. The major exceptions are the actions listed under the Document tab, especially Reduce File Size, which simply crashes as soon as you click on it. For anyone who stores large files, this is a significant defect.
My old computer (a Gateway) was about five years old. Both computers run on Windows XP, so the operating system is not the cause of the crashes.
2nd UPDATE: Today [02/06/08] Adobe released Ver. 8.1.2. It's still screwed up.
3rd UPDATE 02/23/08: There is an alternative on the horizon, PDF Converter Professional 5.0 by Nuance Communications, which sells OmniPage 16 Professional. Nuance has an ugly history of selling software before its time (i.e., using early purchasers as beta sites), but it's the only real alternative I've been able to find. There are other shareware programs, but they don't have the functionality of Adobe Acrobat 8.
UPDATE #4 02/26/08: Well, it looks like PDF Converter Professional 5 also lacks the functionality of Adobe Acrobat 8. I went to Nuance's website and downloaded the new version, only to find that it lacks support for scanners. (This is strange because Nuance's flagship product, Omnipage, does include support for scanners.) It does, however, include features for inserting, extracting, replacing, deleting, cropping and rotating pages, which I had been having trouble with in Adobe. In its promotional materials, Nuance claims that it will create headers and footers, but I see no evidence of that.
UPDATE #5 07/28/08: This will be my final update, since Adobe has released Adobe Acrobat Professional 9. I bought a copy yesterday and have just begun using it. It seems not to suffer from the flaws that afflicted Acrobat 8, but we'll see.
The clear lesson of all of this is that Adobe releases poorly written and documented software, treating its customers as beta testers. Caveat Emptor.
22 of 22 found the following review helpful:
Bloated and Unstable Jul 03, 2007
By E. D. Freeman
Another bloated, greedy and unstable piece of software from Adobe. Software whos auto-update feature caused my entire software suite to crash as Adobe burrows into everything for Word and Outlook to Internet Exploiter and Explorer. Here's the kicker, the Adobe software won't let you uninstall or reinstall, generating a consistent error that is not documented on Adobes website. And if you even bother to try their customer support line, find a comfortable chair and make a drink, you're gonna need it.
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Not for VISTA, validation problems and terrible tech support Jul 11, 2007
By John Mckenzie
Although this is a valuable product when it works. Beware, Adobe tech support told me that it NOT VISTA COMPATIBLE. We have personal experience of this. Additionally, as with all Adobe products their validation process often does not work. We have spent hours on the phone and come to heated tempers when trying to validate a legitimate Adobe product. Validation also stopped working after a few weeks and we had to repeat the process and encurr hours of loss time. We have also had Adobe updates crash the entire system which took day to fix with many incompetent tech support staff members.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Software good, help and support average. Apr 02, 2007
By Hound of the BookServile
"with audio"
I ran into errors displayed when trying to register the software. Wrote down the errors and called adobe, and adobe tells me to ignore the errors, the software is registered anyway. So far the product is working great for my required documentation project, but as usual with adobe products, the aftermarket need for additional manuals, training and tutorials is where the other 2/3 of the money is made. A product should have an in depth support and help system within the package you purchase. If the product has a feature, there should be an answer for all options in the product manual. I should not need to buy an aftermarket manual or visit an online support forum to find an answer to a question that should be in the product manual in the first place. I recommend the product in you need proprietary document formats or special document security for forms that the general public can access or needs to access. If you hope to get up and running in a hurry or need some help with the details, buy a little extra help, buy an aftermarket book on the product. The help information that comes with the product is frustrating for lack of necessary information, and sometimes the language to find the answers is frustrating itself. A little more intuitive menu help is all that is needed. If there is a name of an option or feature within the software, the same name should be in the help file index.
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