Acrobat X Professional -Win

by Adobe

Product Features

• ADOBE SOFTWARE 65083161 ACROBAT X PROFESSIONAL WIN

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• ASIN: B0046DH8PC
• Item model number: 65083161
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 17, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #1 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Latest Version of Adobe Acrobat: Acrobat X Professional

When it comes to creating and sharing professional-level PDF files—with audio, video, and rich media—there’s Adobe Acrobat X Pro, and then there’s everything else. Acrobat X helps you increase your productivity and deliver better, more polished work. It’s so much more than just a simple PDF creation tool. Also confidently store and share documents through easy-to-use services at Acrobat.com.

Showcase your work with PDF Portfolios.

Automate routine tasks with the Action Wizard.

Streamline document reviews with comment tools for your entire team.

Top Overall Features

PDF Portfolios
Combine a wide range of file types into a polished, organized PDF Portfolio. Apply professionally designed layouts, visual themes, and color palettes. Easily add logos and colors to reflect your branding.

Rich media support
Quickly bring ideas to life through rich, interactive documents. Insert audio, Adobe Flash Player-compatible video, and interactive media into PDF files, for seamless playback in Adobe Reader X or Reader 9.

Action Wizard
Automate routine, multistep tasks into a single, guided Action. Create, manage, execute, and share a sequence of frequently used steps that can be applied to a single PDF or batches of files.

Acrobat X Professional Highlights

Extend Reader functionality
Enable Adobe Reader X or Reader 9 users to participate in shared reviews, fill and save forms, and digitally sign and approve PDF documents—regardless of platform or operating system.

Streamlined Document Reviews
Provide team members with a complete set of comment and markup tools, so everyone can participate in shared document reviews using Adobe Reader X or Reader 9 software. See and build on each other's comments, plus track progress and participation.

Permanent information removal
Use redaction tools to permanently delete sensitive information, including specific text and illustrations. Easily sanitize documents with one click, finding and deleting hidden information such as metadata, annotations, attachments, form fields, layers, and bookmarks.

Online file sharing
Use Adobe SendNow online services from within Acrobat to send, share, and track large files without the headaches of email size restrictions, FTP sites, and costly overnight services.

Before you choose, consider Adobe Acrobat X Pro as a part of Adobe Acrobat X Suite software.

Product Description

Experience the full power of next-generation Acrobat Dynamic PDF. Use Adobe Acrobat X Pro software to deliver high-impact communications that combine audio, video, interactive media, and a wide variety of file types into a polished, professional PDF Portfolio. Get feedback faster through easy-to-manage electronic reviews. Create and distribute fillable PDF forms to collect critical data. Apply passwords and permissions to protect your work. And confidently store and share documents through easy-to-use services at Acrobat.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

69 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good product, but not good enough to justify price, May 26, 2011

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Peachbulb (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Acrobat X Professional -Win (DVD-ROM)

(What's this?)

Before I begin, I should say that I'm reviewing this from an individual user's perspective. Large businesses and other organizations would find the product more useful, but I figure they're unlikely to buy the software from Amazon.

The main issue for potential Amazon buyers shouldn't be whether it's a useful product--it is. Rather, is it useful enough to justify its high price? For most users, I think it isn't. Instead, I recommend looking at some other products whose *combined* price is a fraction of Acrobat X Professional.

Here are the PDF features I use most and that I think are most relevant to individual users.

PRINTING TO PDF. If this is all you want from a PDF software, then Acrobat is waaaay overkill. The free version of Cute PDF is all you need.

SCANNING TO PDF. Many scanners come with software that allows you to save as a PDF, so look into that first. Otherwise, check out Cute PDF Professional and Foxit Phantom PDF Suite.

SEARCHING PDF. The free Acrobat Reader has a nice search function.

EDITING TEXT IN PDF. I recommend Corel PDF Fusion because of its great function that allows you to import a PDF directly into Word and edit it there.

COMBINING DOCUMENTS, DELETING/INSERTING PAGES, ETC. There are many PDF software programs that do this. Cute PDF Professional allows you to insert blank pages into a PDF, something Acrobat still doesn't let you do even though it's a basic feature that many people would like.

I've mentioned a few PDF programs so far (PDF Fusion, Cute PDF Professional, Foxit Phantom PDF Suite), but there are some that I haven't tried that may be worth investigating:

--Nitro PDF

--Soda PDF

--PDF Suite Pro

--Inflix PDF

You may have noticed that I didn't mention Nuance PDF Converter. Until Nuance fixes its problem of making you re-activate if you insert an external hard drive, I can't recommend it.

Even if you have to buy more than one of these products to get all the features you want, the combined price is still less than Acrobat, and you'll get some additional features that Acrobat doesn't have.

Now, who *should* buy Acrobat? First, people who need good optical character recognition (OCR). There's no better software for this. Second, people who want to create PDF forms. Again, no better software.

Bottom line, Acrobat offers almost all the features you get in other programs, all in one package. But that's one very expensive package, and for the price, you could get multiple other PDF programs and have money left over.

Before buying, I highly recommend downloading the free 30 day trial of not just Acrobat but also the other software programs I've mentioned.

Full disclosure: I received a free test copy of Acrobat X Professional but was not compensated for this review.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Acrobat X is inferior compared to Acrobat Pro 9., February 2, 2011

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ccc - See all my reviews

This review is from: Acrobat X Professional -Win (DVD-ROM)

I was hoping that Acrobat X would be faster with less glitches than Acrobat Pro 9. However, it is actually worse! The tools are so disorganized. In Acrobat Pro 9, you can customize the tool box in an intuitive fashion, but in version X, it is so convoluted and I couldn't figure out how to make it the way I wanted. Also the Typewriter now pops up with its own window that you cannot integrate into the tool bar. What the heck? And the interface is just ugly. What were the designers thinking???

Don't waste your money on this, and stick to the Acrobat Pro 9.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ugly user interface mars this new edition, May 24, 2011

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KWJ (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Acrobat X Professional -Win (DVD-ROM)

(What's this?)

I have been a fan of Adobe Acrobat from day one. I do a great deal of work in the print-on-demand field, and PDFs are the defacto-standard, and require specialized formatting. I was excited that version 10 was out, and was looking forward to a lot of new features and a better program all around, but I was disappointed.

The user interface is completely changed from v.9, and it actually looks like it belongs to a "lite" version, rather than the flagship v.10 this has been touted to be. It took me a while to find my way to my favorite tools, and even though I've used it a while now, I don't like the configuration, and am going back to v.9. (Adobe has provided user tutorials to help you learn the newly revamped interface. Really? Why do I want to spend time learning a new interface to a program I've already used for years?)

If you're upgrading from a really old version of Acrobat, then the features here will seem heavenly. But if you're already using v.9, I would suggest sticking with it until we see what Adobe has planned for v.11. I'm hoping they'll take user comments to heart, and return us to the user interface we can all use in our sleep, and not make us re-learn how to do things we already know how to do.