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Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Upgrade OSX Mac

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If you purchase the Acrobat 5.0 upgrade for a Mac running OS 7.x or 8.x with Adobe Exchange previously installed, and your experience parallels mine, you'll waste 2 to 3 hours attempting without success to install it. If you then fight your way through Adobe's support system, you'll find that there's a "fix" on their web site -- In other words, Adobe will ship you a product *which they know at the time of shipping* to be totally non-functional, and despite having your contact information from the online order, give you no warning of this. (Incidentally, for your [money] they supply you with a CD *and no users manual*)

Almost everybody who is on the Net has the free download Adobe Acrobat Reader. With this reader, users are able to view .pdf documents in exactly the same format the writer published it. So, how did the writer publish his or her .pdf? Answer: he paid a lot more and got the non-freeware version of Adobe Acrobat (sometimes called Adobe Acrobat Pro or Adobe Acrobat Writer).

There is absolutely no doubt that this software is essential if you produce a lot of documents electronically. In any other format (HTML, Word, etc), you run the risk that the users' machines will reconfigure your document in ways that you hadn't intended. Adobe Acrobat locks your publication into a format that can be transferred between computers and across computer platforms.

It is, however, priced for the office user. Home users, once again, have to shell out over $... for the standard version and $... for the upgrade. It's a shame, as home computers are not just about games and surfing the Net. Some people do some serious writing outside of the office. If home users could pay half the price for this product, it would be well worth it.