Customer Reviews

Adobe Acrobat 5.0

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This is a great tool for anyone who wants to make files available for everyone via the web or other electronic means. However, the documentation is severely lacking and there are a number of features that have to be dug for.

This is a common problem with many software packages, as shown by the thriving market in "missing manual" type books. One wishes that the software publishers would give the info to the customers themselves, considering the prices they charge.

Adobe Acrobat remains the standard for business and government distribution of electronic formatted documents. The free Acrobat Reader is used to view corporate reports, technical manuals, tax forms and formatted online documents. Acrobat Reader works on every platform: PC, Mac, and Unix.

Adobe Acrobat 5.0 software lets you convert any document to a PDF file. Your document's layout, fonts, links, and images will remain intact when your use Adobe Acrobat.

What's new in the Adobe Acrobat 5.0 program?

PDF Writer is missing. Adobe Acrobat Distiller is added as a System printer. Also, added are enhanced security features like 128-bit encryption for passwording files and digital signatures. In addition, you have a new user interface and new Adobe Acrobat palette comments, information, fields and tags.

Adobe Acrobat has new menu commands, catalog, distiller, spelling and the unique function of saving Adobe Acrobat on the web. You can also create eBooks using Adobe Acrobat. In addition, Adobe Acrobat allows you to drag and drop new PDF files into the Master PDF.

Electronic Comments and Acrobat PDF Forms

Adobe Acrobat can shorten your document review cycles. Writers and reviewers can add comments such as electronic sticky notes and text highlights. You can use Adobe Acrobat to receive comments from multiple reviewers. Reviewers can add electronic comments quickly to an online Adobe PDF file.

Gather information and reduce costs with Acrobat PDF forms. Create interactive forms that look like their paper versions. Now you can easily link the forms to a Web server, so that computer users can fill them in and digitally sign them from within their Web browser.

You can use Photoshop 7 or Photoshop Elements to capture your files into Adobe Acrobat. Also, most scanners allow you to save your work in PDF with your scanners' OCR (Optical Character Reader) program. This allows you to print your work as a PDF file.

Pro Reaction

You can determine the skill levels of Adobe Acrobat person from novice to intermediate and finally to expert based on their PDF files work.

In Adobe Acrobat's thumbnail palette you can insert new pages quickly. Create documents anyone can open. Easily convert your Microsoft Office documents to Adobe PDF. Gather research information from the Web by downloading and converting Web pages to an Adobe PDF file. Then, you can save them as an Adobe PDF file with active links.

Con Reaction

Navigation changes in the Adobe Acrobat menus. The Adobe Capture document in Acrobat does not work on the Macintosh.

Final Notes

I use Acrobat both for my business and home use. The cross-platform of Acrobat reader has made my work easier when dealing with clients of the Windows' persuasion. Acrobat has been and remains one of my most important applications.

Yes, it can be a bit tricky to use this software. For example, the text editor is quite a bit different from the scheme Microsoft Word uses, so there is a lot to get used to. But I DON'T CARE. It's so useful that I found it worth the initial struggle.

If you want to do web publishing, this is a must-have. I found all kinds of uses for Acrobat for my website, which is devoted to knitting (boring, I know, but there are a lot of us who like to knit and it's a surprisingly technical discipline.) I use Acrobat to prepare patterns for distribution on the Web and also by e-mail and snail mail. I frequently use the printing function to "print" a web page or document into electronic form. You can set up a virtual printer in your printer dialog box to be the Acrobat printer and end up with PDF format files. This may be the feature I use the most.

I also transfer charts created in Microsoft Excel(tm) into PDF files to make graphic representations of stitch patterns. I start in Excel(tm) coloring in the cells with symbols and end up with a PDF file that is an attractive graphic chart that can be included in a PDF text file.

In short, this software is versatile for web and publishing applications as well as printing to file instead of paper. I would not be without it.

Being a poor struggling writer, I found myself in need of Adobe Acrobat in order to indie publish my novel, and about fell off my chair when I saw the price tag of Adobe 9. My heart sunk, as I knew that it was way outside of my budget.

I then started to dig around for the older versions, and looked for information on whether they were compatible with Windows XP. Despite what a couple of posters on the net claimed, Adobe officially assured that the older versions were indeed compatible with XP. So I ordered a copy, and was totally delighted with it. I works beautifully, and I have been able to format my novel without a hitch. I highly recommend Adobe Acrobat 5.0 for your newer system, and the price is a dream for anyone on a tight budget.

SL

I don't know how our household functioned without this handy little program. The older version works just fine, does everything it is supposed to do with ease. Sure, it lacks some of the fancy features of the newer versions, but the price is better.

One caveat: Be sure the item you are buying is a regular license, not a student or "educational" copy. Sellers do not always mention this little detail.

Pay very close attention to what they are selling you and the system it is going on.
I did not.
I originally gave it a one star, but then realized it was operator error and I have seen other
stupid reviews where the reviewer is not talking about the product, but shipping or something
like the dumb thing I just did.
So I lost 10 bucks, big deal.
I did have to order the Windows version for a hefty ten times the price though.
Live and learn, even at 66!

Acrobat has become the industry standard for creating PDF (portable document format) files for one very good reason... quality. Adobe, with the exception of InDesign, puts out some of the best programs for the graphics industry. Now, with the inclusion of the notation capability formerly available as the separate Acrobat Business Tools, Acrobat is a complete suite of tools to make life easier. ....

And, OSX users will want to know that Adobe is working on a Carbonized version for the latest Mac OS.