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Adobe Adds Premium Services to Acrobat.com - for a Price

Posted 06/16/09 at 11:13:28 AM  by Mark Edward Soper

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Adobe adds extra-cost premium services to Acrobat.com

This week, Adobe converted its Acrobat.com online service, introduced last year,  from beta to production status, and rolled out two extra-cost upgrades while continuing to offer a free version. All versions of Acrobat.com include Adobe's Buzzword online word processing, but other features differ:

  • The free version can create up to five PDF files, allows up to 100 downloads per file, supports web conferences for up to three users, and provides tech support through moderated forums.
  • For $14.99/month or $149/year, you can upgrade to Premium Basic, which enables users to create up to 10 PDF files per month with unlimited downloads, web conferences for up to five users, and premium one-on-one phone chat tech support. Upgrade by July 16 to a one-year subscription, and save $15.
  • Upgrade to Premium Plus, the high-end service, for $39/month or $390/year, and get unlimited PDF creation and downloads, web conferences for up to 20 users, and premium one-on-one phone chat tech support. Upgrade by July 16 to a one-year subscription, and save $50.

All Acrobat.com users can also try two new features currently under development at Acrobat.com Labs: Tables and Presentations.

Tables is essentially an online spreadsheet, while Presentations is an online presentation program. Both support sharing and collaboration features, just as the Buzzword online word processor does. Presentations displays thumbnails along the bottom of the window, making it easy to get to any slide at any time.  Both programs provide immediate notification when users view the the table or presentation, as well as immediate notification when another user edits a cell or a slide. Tables offers a Private View feature you can enable before sorting and filtering data so that only your view of the table is affected.

Keep in mind that both Tables and Presentations are pre-release services, so make sure you keep the feedback coming (and don't use either service as your sole repository for data).

How do you think Acrobat.com compares with Google Docs or Microsoft Office Live? Hit Comment and tell us what you think.

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TAGS: online, sharing, pdf, Adobe, saas, Acrobat.com, collaboration, spreadsheet, presentation, word processing, software as a service
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avatarAdobe vs Foxit and Another "Clouded" Security Risk

Submitted by tugboat_2 on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 1:54pm

1st off, with Foxit there is NO limit to opening PDF's  (except for NOT wasting your comp's resources). Since I read MPC's Foxit reviews, I dumped ALL Adobe products, except required browser add ins, and gained a bunch of disk space, and lost a couple of annoying ''running services". The latest Adobe readers came with 2 or 3 extra programs that I had a heck of a time with.

 Add in Foxit's FREE editor and you get a virtual printer installed that lets you save "print friendly" articles/pages as pdf docs into any file (no limit on the number of files or docs). Other free addins alow you to edit pdf docs also. I have used them to edit existing advertising flyers for a friend's start up buisness, and I'm an idiot so that tells you how easy it is. The only caveat is that created docs have a watermark in the top rt corner. I checked for kicks Adobe's site and these to features cost several hundred $. If you want to get rid of the watermarks in Foxit their programs only cost about $70 I think it was. I could get the whole schmeare for less than a third the cost of Adobe.

As for those add on online services, why would anyone in their right mind want their stuff laying arround on some strange server just waiting to get hacked. Yeah tell me how Adobe's servers arre much more secure than Bank or national defense servers. NOT. We all know Adobe NEVER has security issues don't we?

 After loooking into Foxit, Open Office and Gimp and others, I have resolved that as soon as I build my new computer and get Win 7 loaded up M$, Adobe, and other mainstream cash cows won't be on my computer again.

Just my two cents

If you can't dazzel em with Brilliance, baffle em with bull puckey. (From the tome; Murphy's Law, Annex 5, Smooth Recoveries)

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avatarSo your going to go

Submitted by nekollx on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 2:39pm

So your going to go Linux?

 

Cause you know if your not going to paid for anything from MS/Adobe/etc you can't have win 7, it does have a built in kill timer in the RC.

 

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avatarPDF's are just another

Submitted by Digital-Storm on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 11:58am

PDF's are just another proprietary format that needs to die.

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avatarno...I have no problem with

Submitted by teh 1337 haxxor on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 6:45pm

no...I have no problem with the PDF file format. Adobe acrobat reader needs to die...and then be reborn using less memory and much faster.

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avatarwil you settle for its Foxy

Submitted by nekollx on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 8:58am

wil you settle for its Foxy daughter? She does all that, (and has a bag of chips!)

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avatar can you really call it

Submitted by nekollx on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 12:35pm

 can you really call it propriitary when FoxIt reader and Samba can open a PDF with ness resource hogging and no loss of functionality?

 

the same with DOC and Open Office, is it really Propritary?

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avatarMisleading Naming Scheme

Submitted by Trooper_One on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 11:09am

I hate how companies name their bottom (or near bottom) of the barrel services as being "Premium", as in this Adobe "Premium-Baisc".  Just call it what it is "Basic" and don't flower it!

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avatarAs far as i'm concerned,

Submitted by teh 1337 haxxor on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 10:29am

As far as i'm concerned, adobe products just plain suck (with the exception of photoshop) and are way the hell overpriced. Adobe can suck my balls...Seriously...should acrobat reader have to dl 20mb worth of updates 2-3 times a month? And why does acrobat reader waste 100-200mb of my memory to open a PDF? And why does it talke 10-15seconds to open a PDF???

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avatarOffice Live Workspace > Acrobat.com

Submitted by jtrpop on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 9:43am

Zzzzzzzz.  Not at the article, but at Adobe.  Microsoft Office Live Workspace http://workspace.officelive.com is a much better solution.  I used it plan and organize my last major event and it worked like a charm, and didn't cost me a dime.  That combined with Microsoft SharedView made for wonderful event planning collaboration.  (I have no affiliation with Microsoft)

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