By Dale Farris, Reviews Coordinator
Golden Triangle PC Club
July 2008

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended

Take advantage of the complete feature set in Adobe Acrobat 9 software — plus Adobe Presenter and Adobe LiveCycle Designer — to deliver the richest, most engaging PDF communications. Unify the widest range of content — including documents, spreadsheets, e-mails, images, video, 3D, and maps — in a single, compressed, and organized PDF Portfolio.

Collaborate through electronic document reviews
Create interactive forms and collect data easily
Protect and control sensitive information with robust security features
Enable users of Adobe Reader software to save and sign forms, apply digital signatures, and participate in reviews.

Get it all with Acrobat 9 Pro Extended.

Deliver the richest, most engaging PDF communications anytime, anywhere. Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended software now includes Adobe Presenter, Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES, and Adobe 3D Reviewer software.

Ideal for business and technical professionals. Use Acrobat 9 Pro Extended to:

Create interactive presentations
Use included Adobe Presenter software to liven up your slides with video, voice-over, demos, and interactive quizzes.

Bring people and ideas together
Gather feedback, build consensus, and get everyone on the same page through interactive document reviews and real-time collaboration
Communicate with impact Include audio, video, images, 3D, and maps in your PDF documents for reliable cross-platform sharing.

Acrobat 9 Pro Extended is available for Windows only.

Note: Adobe Acrobat 9 is now available in three editions:

Acrobat 9 Professional Extended
Acrobat 9 Professional
Acrobat 9 Standard

Top New Features and Enhancements

• Create interactive on-demand presentations with Adobe Presenter software • Combine multiple files in a single PDF Portfolio
• Use professional templates for PDF Portfolios
• Convert video to FLV for playback in PDF files
• Enjoy support for 3D content and interactive PDF maps

Top Reasons to Buy Acrobat 9 Pro Extended

Include Adobe Reader users
Enable users of free Adobe Reader software to digitally sign documents, participate in shared document reviews, and save forms locally. By extending Acrobat functionality to Reader users, virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate.

Help protect your documents
Use passwords to help control access to PDF documents. Use permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering. Save passwords and permissions as security policies that can be easily applied to new PDF files.

Permanently remove sensitive information
Use redaction tools to black out sensitive text, illustrations, or other information, permanently deleting the content from the PDF document. Inspect PDF documents for metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and remove before distributing to others.

Enable virtually anyone to access design data
Convert virtually any 2D and 3D designs— including layers, dimensions, and metadata— to a single PDF file to share product data more easily and securely.

Manage and track document reviews
Gain the input you need through interactive document reviews that enable participants to see and build on each other’s comments, which can be sorted by author, date, or page. Use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Synchronize document views
Ensure colleagues, clients, and partners are on the same page at the same time with the ability to co-navigate documents. To provide clarity and enhance discussion, e-mail a document and walk recipients through it in real time by controlling the exact page view they see.

Compare PDF documents
Automatically highlight the differences between two versions of a PDF document, including text and images, so you can quickly and easily identify what has changed.

View and interact with PDF maps
Search, measure, and mark up geospatially enabled PDF maps. Discover the longitude and latitude by placing your cursor over a location.

What is PDF?

Invented by Adobe Systems and with more than twenty 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.

Why Acrobat Pro Extended?

Easily create Adobe PDF documents from Microsoft Office, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, AutoCAD, Lotus Notes, or any application that prints.

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.

Enable users of Adobe Reader software (version 7 or 8) to participate in shared reviews. Use the Start Meeting button to collaborate in real-time with the new Adobe Acrobat Connect line of products.

Easily collect and distribute forms, combine collected forms into a searchable, sortable PDF package, and export collected data into a spreadsheet. (Windows only)

Control access to and use of Adobe PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity.

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 8.0 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.

Keen Features

Create and optimize Adobe PDF 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, AutoCAD®, and Lotus Notes files.

Scan to PDF with OCR
Scan paper documents with OCR technology to create compact, searchable Adobe PDF documents.

Convert e-mail to Adobe PDF files
Convert e-mail in Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes to Adobe PDF documents to facilitate searching, archiving, and retrieval. (Windows only)

Capture web pages as Adobe PDF files
Convert web pages to Adobe PDF documents to easily print, archive, mark up, or share. (Windows only)

Create in PDF/A or PDF/X
Create documents in PDF/A, the ISO standard for long-term archiving of electronic documents, or PDF/X, the ideal format for high-quality, professional printing.

Combine files from multiple applications
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.

Maintain individual file security settings
Maintain individual digital signatures and security settings in PDF files and forms when combining them into a single PDF package.

Include only the pages you need
Specify which pages, layouts, or sheets should be included from source files in your final, combined Adobe PDF document.

Optimize Adobe PDF output
Select from multiple file size and quality settings to optimize PDF output for your intended purpose.

Quickly regenerate a combined PDF file
Re-create a combined Adobe PDF document after revising source files, without having to locate and gather the native files again.

Unify with headers, footers, and watermarks
Automatically remove headers and footers from source files and add unifying headers, footers, or watermarks to your combined Adobe PDF document.

Attach native files
Share source files by attaching them to your Adobe PDF document in their original, native formats.

Enhance and extend document collaboration
Conduct e-mail–based reviews Initiate a document review in Adobe PDF via e-mail. Merge inbound comments and markups from all reviewers into one PDF document with a single click.

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 collaboration tools in Adobe Reader
Enable users of free Adobe Reader software to participate in e-mail– or server-based reviews using all of the commenting and markup tools in Acrobat 8 Professional, including notes, stamps, highlighter, pencil, lines, shapes, and more.

Track reviews and manage comments
Track which reviewers have contributed feedback, send reminders, and add new participants. Easily compile all comments into a single Adobe PDF document.

View and print comments
View and print feedback for easy reconciliation. Sort comments by author, date, or page. Search comments for words or phrases.

Export comments to Word or AutoCAD
Select and export comments back to your original Word or AutoCAD file. Comments appear in Word as tracked changes and in AutoCAD as a separate layer.

Streamline data collection with Adobe PDF forms
Get started with form templates Take advantage of an existing library of common form templates, such as human resources forms, invoices, and expense reports. (Windows only)

Easily create forms
Create fillable forms for distribution by e-mail or on the web from scanned paper, PDF documents, Microsoft Word documents, or Excel spreadsheets.

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 free Adobe Reader software.

Optimize form workflow
Easily distribute forms; combine collected forms into a searchable, sortable PDF package; and export collected data into a spreadsheet.

Enable form features in Adobe Reader
Enable users of Adobe Reader software to type information directly into Adobe PDF forms and save them locally for offline use.

Apply advanced document security and controls
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.

Sign documents digitally
Apply digital signatures to authenticate documents, manage their status, and help protect against unauthorized modification.

Enable digital signatures in Adobe Reader
Enable Adobe Reader users to digitally sign PDF documents.

Remove hidden data
Inspect Adobe PDF documents for metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and remove as needed.

Permanently remove sensitive information
Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive text, illustrations, or other information from the Adobe PDF document.

Protect attached files
Protect files attached to your Adobe PDF documents with 128-bit encryption.

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 don’t 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

$699 - Retail Price - Acrobat 9 Professional Extended
$229.00 Upgrade Price

$449 - Retail Price - Acrobat 9 Professional
$159 - Upgrade Price

$299 - Retail Price - Acrobat 9 Standard
$  99 - Upgrade Price

What's The Difference?

The following features are found in Acrobat 9 Standard, Acrobat 9 Professional, and Acrobat 9 Pro Extended.

View, print, and search PDF files, including PDF Portfolios and PDF maps

Author, store, and share documents, and share your screen, using Acrobat.com services

Experience richer content and greater interactivity with native support for Adobe Flash technology

Create PDF documents from any application that prints

Convert Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Access files to PDF with one-button ease (Windows only)

Capture web pages as rich, dynamic PDF files for review and archiving

Archive e-mail or e-mail folders from Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes (Windows only)

Scan paper documents to PDF and automatically recognize text with optical character recognition (OCR)

Save PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables, to facilitate reuse of content

Help protect PDF documents with 256-bit encryption

Apply restrictions on printing, copying, and altering PDF documents

Examine documents for hidden information and delete as needed

Merge files from multiple applications into a single PDF document

Assemble a wide range of content types in a polished, organized PDF Portfolio

Review documents using familiar commenting tools such as sticky notes, highlighting, lines, shapes, and stamps partial

Manage shared document reviews that allow review participants to see one another's comments

Enable real-time collaboration with synchronized document views and chat

Digitally sign PDF documents partial

Certify PDF documents using digital IDs

Easily create fillable PDF forms from paper or existing files using the Form Wizard

Distribute PDF forms to collect information and track their status (For ad hoc forms distribution and data collection for up to 500 people)

Enable users of Adobe Reader (ver 8 or later) to fill in and save PDF forms locally

Convert documents to PDF/A for archiving with easy search and retrieval

The following features are found in Acrobat 9 Professional and Acrobat 9 Pro Extended.

Validate documents for conformance to ISO standards PDF/A, PDF/E, and PDF/X

Personalize a PDF Portfolio with customizable templates for navigation and branding

Permanently delete sensitive information, including specific text or illustrations, with redaction tools

Convert Autodesk AutoCAD, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Project files to PDF with one-button ease, preserving document layers in Visio and AutoCAD and object data in Visio (Windows Only)

Enable users of Adobe Reader (ver 8 or later) to digitally sign PDF documents

Compare and highlight the differences between two versions of a PDF document

Create dynamic XML forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES (included) (Windows Only)

Preview, preflight, correct, and prepare PDF files for high-end print production and digital publishing

Create and validate accessible PDF documents

Insert FLV or H.264 video for direct playback in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader

The following features are found only in Acrobat 9 Professional Extended.

Easily add audio, video, and quizzes to your PowerPoint slides and create rich, interactive presentations with Adobe Presenter (included)

Convert a variety of video formats to FLV for playback in PDF

Embed video in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint and convert to FLV in PDF

Convert 3D content to PDF for cross-platform sharing and collaboration

Combine multiple CAD formats in one assembly and save as PDF with Adobe 3D Reviewer (included)

Convert 2D and 3D designs from major CAD applications to PDF for use by extended teams without expensive CAD or viewer software

Create PDF maps by importing geospatial files that retain metadata and coordinates

System Configuration Requirements

1.3GHz or faster processor
Win XP Home, Pro, Tablet PC Edition (SP 2 or 3) (32-bit and 64-bit)
Win Server 2003 (SP 2 for 64-bit)
Win Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise
(With or Without SP 1) (32-bit and 64-bit)
IE 6
512MB RAM
2.35GB free hard disk space
1,024 x 768 resolution
DVD-ROM drive
Video hardware acceleration (optional)

Supported UNIX platforms for Adobe 3D Capture Utility (Optional)

Sun Solaris 2.8: UltraSPARC processor
IBM AIX 5.2: POWER4 or PowerPC 604 processor
SGI IRIX 6.5: RISC 5000 processor
HP-UX 11.0: PA-RISC 2.0 processor
UNIX Capture Utility: 200MB of available hard-disk space

Contact

Adobe Systems, Incorporated
Corporate Headquarters
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, California 95110-2704
408-536-6000
800-833-6687
FAX 408-537-6000

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