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 By
Dale Farris, Vice President
Golden Triangle PC Club
January 2005
Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional software is the simple way to create and share more secure and reliable
Adobe PDF documents. Generate Adobe PDF files that accurately represent
the original document, and take advantage of robust tools for sharing
information and commenting on electronic files.
Acrobat 7 is available in two editions:
Acrobat 7 Professional
Acrobat 7 Standard
What is PDF?
Invented by Adobe Systems and with more than ten years of
innovation, Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is a publicly available
specification used by standards bodies around the world for secure,
reliable electronic document distribution and exchange. Adobe PDF has been
adopted by governments and enterprises to streamline document management,
increase productivity, and reduce reliance on paper. Today, Adobe PDF is
the standard, secure format for the electronic submission of drug
approvals to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and for
electronic case filing in U.S. federal courts. It is also the standard
format used for advertising pages, in newspapers and magazines.
As an open file format specification, PDF is available to anyone who wants
to develop tools to create, view, or manage PDF documents. More than 1,800
vendors offer PDF-based solutions.
Preserve the look and integrity of your original documents Adobe PDF
files look exactly like the original pages and fulfill requirements for
electronic filing and document security.
Share documents with anyone Anyone can open Adobe PDF documents on any
system regardless of the software platform, the original application, or
the availability of specific fonts using free Adobe Reader software.
Easy to use Adobe PDF files have more features to enhance usability than
PDF files created from non-Adobe applications embedded fonts, color
profile information for more accurate color rendition across different
systems, as well as tags in the document that reflow the pages for
different screen displays.
More secure document exchange With Adobe Acrobat 7.0 or Adobe LiveCycle
software, you can password-protect PDF files to prevent unauthorized
viewing and altering, while also enabling authorized reviewers to use
intuitive commenting and editing tools.
Searchable Adobe PDF files are searchable for words appearing in the
text and in annotations, bookmarks, and data fields.
What's New in Version 7?
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software is the advanced way to
create, control, and deliver more secure, high-quality Adobe PDF
documents.
Enjoy improved performance - Extend commenting capabilities
Easily design Adobe PDF forms - Organize Adobe PDF documents
Enjoy improved attachment capabilities - Enjoy improved performance
With improved performance you can quickly convert, collect, and organize
Adobe PDF documents.
Extend commenting capabilities
Enable anyone who uses free Adobe Reader 7.0 software to actively
participate in reviews.
Easily design Adobe PDF forms
Use Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 software (now included with Adobe Acrobat
7.0 Professional Windows only) to create PDF forms that look like the
paper forms they replace. Incorporate business logic, such as calculations
and data validations.
Organize Adobe PDF documents
Quickly find a list of Adobe PDF documents you have recently opened. View
them as thumbnails, and drag and drop files into related collections.
Enjoy improved attachment capabilities
Easily attach source documents such as spreadsheets, multimedia files,
images, and drawings to an Adobe PDF document.
Keen Features
Create and reliably exchange content-rich documents
Easily create Adobe PDF documents
Create Adobe PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint. Windows users can also create PDF documents with
one-button ease from Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access,
Publisher, and AutoCAD.
Easily design Adobe PDF forms
Use Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 software (now included with Adobe Acrobat
7.0 Professional Windows only) to create PDF forms that look like the
paper forms they replace. Incorporate business logic, such as calculations
and data validations.
Enjoy improved performance
With improved performance you can quickly convert, collect, and organize
Adobe PDF documents.
Reuse, don't re-create, work
Easily grab text, tables, measurements, and embedded object data to use in
other applications.
Convert paper to electronic format
Scan paper documents and forms to create compact, searchable archives of
Adobe PDF documents.
Assemble multiple files into a single, polished document
Assemble documents
Create a single Adobe PDF document from multiple sources including
portions of Web pages and previously combined Adobe PDF documents.
Print, extract, or delete the subdocuments.
Control document organization
Arrange pages in an Adobe PDF document in the order you want, to present
information accurately and effectively.
Use enhanced headers, footers, and watermarks
Easily add headers, footers, and watermarks to Adobe PDF documents.
Search with more power
Search according to text and document properties to quickly find files on
local machines and network drives.
Enjoy improved attachment capabilities
Easily attach source documents such as spreadsheets, multimedia files,
images, and drawings to an Adobe PDF document.
Collect and manage review feedback
Extend commenting capabilities Enable anyone who uses free Adobe Reader
7.0 software to actively participate in reviews.
Use familiar review and commenting tools
Use familiar commenting tools including a highlighter, sticky notes, pen,
strikethrough, callout, dimension lines, and more.
Track reviews
Create a list of reviewers and automatically track the feedback you
receive.
Approve documents electronically
Use digital signatures for faster electronic approval.
Apply advanced document control and security
Protect sensitive and confidential documents
Add access control to protect documents inside and outside the firewall,
online and offline.
Use password protection
Restrict access to documents using 128-bit encryption.
Control permissions
Set document permissions and restrictions on whether Adobe PDF documents
can be printed, copied, or changed.
Sign documents digitally
Sign electronic documents using digital signatures.
Professional Uses
Think it will always take more time than you have to manage a paper trail
of handwritten comments and blurry faxes from key reviewers around the
world, make sense of it all, and still get your work done?
Think again about Adobe Acrobat. No matter what your profession or
occupation, you need to share documents with others. Marketing people need
to gather office documents, photos, graphics, and presentations for review
and approval. Legal professionals need to securely exchange contracts and
briefs with others who dont use the same software programs. Finance
professionals need to distribute confidential reports. And HR
professionals need to gather employee review information using forms,
route documents, and obtain approvals.
Assemble and combine all your work into one convenient, polished document
for sharing or review. Protect confidential information and prevent others
from changing documents. Speed up your document review processes,
regardless of the location and number of reviewers. Capture information
from people online or offline using intelligent forms.
Price
$449.00 Retail Price - Professional Edition
$159.00 Upgrade Price
$299.00 Retail Price - Standard Edition
$ 99.00 Upgrade Price
System Configuration Requirements
Windows
Pentium processor
Windows 2000 (SP 2), XP Pro or Home, XP Tablet PC Edition
IE 5.5
128MB RAM (256MB recommended)
460MB free hard disk space
Cache for optional installation files requires 300MB hard disk space
1,024 x 768 screen resolution
CD-ROM drive
Internet or phone connection required for product activation
Macintosh
PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
Mac OS X v.10.2.8 or 10.3
128MB RAM (256MB recommended)
495MB free hard disk space
CD-ROM drive
Contact
Adobe Systems, Incorporated
Corporate Headquarters
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, California 95110-2704
408-536-6000
800-833-6687
FAX 408-537-6000
Order Online at
Adobe Corporation
www.adobe.com/store/main.jhtml
You can also order from other retailers or online vendors.
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