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Acrobat 9 Release Represents Good News, Bad News for Adobe PDF Users

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New features in Adobe Acrobat 9 include rich media, Flash support

Hooray! Acrobat 9 Ships

UK's The Register reports that Adobe Acrobat 9 was released Wednesday. As with other recent versions, the new Acrobat release is available in three versions, Standard, Pro, and Extended.

What's New in Acrobat 9 Standard

Acrobat 9 Standard ($299 full, $99 upgrade from Acrobat 6.x, 7.x, or 8.x) includes these new features:

  • Easy fillable-form creation, form fill-in, and form tracking
  • Software launches in half the time of Acrobat 8 (a much-needed improvement in my view)
  • Include Adobe Flash-based audio and video inside PDF documents (can we expect more exciting e-Books now? I hope so!)
  • Better OCR and scanner support to make it easier to turn paper into editable text
  • Convert web pages, including pages with rich and interactive media, into PDF files
  • Search multiple PDF files in the same folder
  • Works with Acrobat.com website

For most users, though, Acrobat Standard just doesn't have enough goodies to justify the price. To find out why Acrobat Pro 9 will hit more users' "sweet spot," read page 2.

COMMENTS
avatarI don't buy anything from

I don't buy anything from members of the Business Software Cartel.  Therefore, I am not interested in this latest piece of Adobe Crapware given the fact that they employ a private police force to shake down small businesses and force them to buy the same software twice.

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avatar$700 for the Pro Extended

$700 for the Pro Extended version???

EXCUSE ME?? That's messed up. Thank goodness I don't need or use Acrobat.

 Just my opinion.

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