Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional (Mac)

by Adobe

Product Features

• Use LiveCycle Designer 7.0 to create PDFs that look like the paper forms they replace, incorporating business logic, such as calculations and Data validations
• Find a list of Adobe PDF documents and view them as thumbnails -- then Drag and drop files into related collections
• Extend comment capabilities for more active participation in reviews
• Improved attachment capabilities - Attach spreadsheets, multimedia files, images, and drawings to an Adobe PDF document
• Work with commenting tools including a highlighter, sticky notes, pen, strikethrough, and more

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000CEK60S
• Item model number: 12020265
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 8, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,035 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #58 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Document Creation
  • #82 in Software > Graphics > CAD
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software is the advanced way to create, control, and deliver more secure, high-quality Adobe PDF documents. Assemble electronic or paper files--even Web sites, engineering drawings, and e-mail--into reliable PDF documents that are easy to share with others using free Adobe Reader 7.0 software.

Create PDF documents from any application that prints.

Easily create Adobe PDF documents
Create Adobe PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Windows users can also create PDF documents with one-button ease from Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, and AutoCAD.

New Feature: Easily design Adobe PDF forms
Use Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 software (now included with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional--Windows only) to create PDF forms that look like the paper forms they replace. Incorporate business logic, such as calculations and data validations.

Enjoy improved performance
With improved performance you can quickly convert, collect, and organize Adobe PDF documents.

Reuse, don't re-create, work
Easily grab text, tables, measurements, and embedded object data to use in other applications.

Turn stacks of documents into easily searchable PDF archives.

Convert paper to electronic format
Scan paper documents and forms to create compact, searchable archives of Adobe PDF documents.

Assemble documents
Create a single Adobe PDF document from multiple sources--including portions of Web pages and previously combined Adobe PDF documents. Print, extract, or delete the subdocuments. Improved output preview tools help ensure that documents will be printed as designed.

Combine application files into a single Adobe PDF document.

Control document organization
Arrange pages in an Adobe PDF document in the order you want, to present information accurately and effectively.

Use enhanced headers, footers, and watermarks
Easily add headers, footers, and watermarks to Adobe PDF documents.

Search with more power
Search according to text and document properties to quickly find files on local machines and network drives.

Organize Adobe PDF documents
Quickly find a list of Adobe PDF documents you have recently opened. View them as thumbnails, and drag and drop files into related collections.

With improved performance you can quickly convert, collect, and organize Adobe PDF documents.

New Feature: Enjoy improved attachment capabilities
Easily attach source documents such as spreadsheets, multimedia files, images, and drawings to an Adobe PDF document.

New Feature: Extend commenting capabilities
Enable anyone who uses free Adobe Reader 7.0 software to actively participate in reviews.

Use familiar review and commenting tools
Use familiar commenting tools including a highlighter, sticky notes, pen, strikethrough, callout, dimension lines, and more.

With Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional, you can enable anyone with free Adobe Reader 7.0 software to use highlighter, sticky note, pen, and other commenting tools. Plus, organize comments from multiple reviewers with sorting and filtering tools.

Track reviews
Create a list of reviewers and automatically track the feedback you receive.

Approve documents electronically
Use digital signatures for faster electronic approval.

Protect sensitive and confidential documents
Add access control to protect documents inside and outside the firewall, online and offline.

Use password protection
Restrict access to documents using 128-bit encryption.

Control permissions
Set document permissions and restrictions on whether Adobe PDF documents can be printed, copied, or changed.

Add an electronic signature to your documents.

Sign documents digitally
Sign electronic documents using digital signatures.

Product Description

Acrobat 7.0 Professional is the advanced way to create, control, and deliver more secure, high-quality PDF documents. Assemble electronic or Paper files - even Web sites, engineering drawings, and E-mail - into reliable PDFs that are easy to share with others, using free Adobe Reader 7.0 software. Enjoy improved performance as you quickly convert, collect, and organize Adobe PDF documents. Create a list of reviewers and automatically track the feedback you receive Collect and manage comments using sort and filter tools, for bringing them together in a single document Protect sensitive and confidential documents inside and outside the firewall, online and offline Use password protection to restrict access to documents with 128-bit encryption Set document permissions and restrict which PDF documents can be printed or changed Sign electronic documents using Digital signatures

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Indispensable Tool for Any Pro, August 18, 2005

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Wild West (Oregon) - See all my reviews

Acrobat 7 Professional on the Mac offers very little over Acrobat 7 Standard. The windows version includes a whole extra program (livecycle designer) for creating forms and using xml data. The Mac version does not include that program.

However, Professional does offer a couple of very important features:
1) The first is building indexes of documents. Indexing is similar to a search but is much more powerful. An index is a pre-built catalog of all the words in your document, saved as a separate file. After the index is built, whenever you want to search a document, you search the index instead, and searches are almost instantaneous. Searching a regular pdf without an index is quite slow. The real power of the index comes when you index multiple pdf's at once. You could have 100 reports, or a dozen books, or whatever, pre-indexed, and any future search is very very fast. Indexing is definitely a slick feature and an impressive trick if you create content for end users or clients.

2) The other important feature is mostly for the advertising/design/print community. Acrobat Pro allows a lot of interaction with press-ready files. You can view separations, preflight documents, and chop large pages into smaller pieces and print any portion of a page you like. If you work with documents for a living, the Professional version is almost a must-have.

Finally....speed. Version 7 is still slow to load. But on a Mac you can leave your computer on for weeks at a time and just leave Acrobat running, so that's not too big of a deal. You can speed up load times by de-activating plug-ins that you don't use. If you just use Acrobat to just view documents, you don't need a lot of the plug-ins. If you use Acrobat professionally, I'd leave the plug-ins active. Do a Get Info on the Acrobat program, click open the Plug-ins tab, and you can uncheck plug-ins to deactivate. For a full description of each plug-in, look under the help menu while in Acrobat.

CONCLUSION: Great program. Good upgrade from 6. Pro version offers useful power features. Mac users a little shortchanged on forms creation.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes works, July 23, 2006

By 

Paul S Boyer "docbnj" (Morristown, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional (Mac) (CD-ROM)

Most of the time, when one tries to make a pdf document from scanned files, the images of the scanned files come out far too small to be of any use. So, perhaps I am not doing things right, even though I am following the rather simple directions. The problem is, there is no documentation for this program, and the help files are useless. There is an online forum, with a "knowledge base", but there are no abstracts of the included items, so unless you have several hours free to read through endless entries, it is also useless. One may call in to talk to Adobe for $40 per "incident," with no guarantee of a solution.

This is the way modern software is offered: lots of fanfare and advertising, but all the utility (if there is any) undermined by an almost total lack of documentation, and no help. It would be like offering a car with no steering wheel, no key, no brakes, and no windows, and expecting the customer to be happy with it.