Adobe Releases Acrobat 9 With Porfolios, Sharing, Flash
Adobe has released the latest version Acrobat for Windows and Mac platforms which support embedding of Flash technology to create rich PDF documents. Another feature is the ability to create Porfolios and also added the ability for collaborators to co-navigate document.
Acrobat 9 has been launched in three flavors, including Acrobat 9 Standard, Acrobat 9 Pro, and Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (which includes Adobe Presenter software). Pricing of Acrobat 9 is: Standard for $299 or $99 to upgrade; Pro for $449 or $159 to upgrade; and Pro Extended for $699 or $299 to upgrade.
Full press release after the jump.
Adobe Delivers Acrobat 9 With Flash Support
Adobe has reveaked Adobe Acrobat 9 software, an upgrade to its popular document management technology which has native support for Adobe Flash technology, the ability to unify a wide range of PDF Portfolios, store video files in PDF, new compression feature and new collaboration feature. All of this can be found on Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro beta.
Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president, Business Productivity Business Unit said, “The expectations organizations and individuals have for communicating and collaborating in the workplace continues to grow significantly. The ability to break through and communicate a message in a compelling way has never been at a greater premium. Acrobat 9 is a response to this environment and is poised to fundamentally change how professionals communicate and collaborate using electronic documents.”
Source: Adobe Press Release
Adobe Revealed Adobe.com
Adobe is going after Google and Microsoft by launching the most ambitious web 2.0 application: Acrobat.com, a suite of interative tools that combine document creation, sharing, white boarding and A/V communications. Acrobat.com is now released as public beta for free signup.
The features are file sharing and storage, PDF converter, online word processor (not as good as Microsoft), and web conferencing which take advantage of PDF, Flash and Air technologies. The hosted services are Buzzword, ConnectNow, Create PDF, Share and My Files.
Source: Adobe Press Release, Acrobat.com
