Adobe Acrobat Professional 9 [Mac] [OLD VERSION]

by Adobe

Product Features

• Deliver the richest, most engaging PDF communications anytime, anywhere
• Unify the widest range of content--including documents, spreadsheets, e-mail, images, video, 3D,
• And maps--in a single compressed and organized PDF Portfolio
• Includes professional templates for PDF portfolios, Adobe Reader review and commenting, LiveCycle Designer ES for dynamic forms
• Collaborate through shared document reviews, help protect

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 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: B0018QY9WA
• Item model number: 12020597
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 30, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #775 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #11 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Document Creation

Product Description

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Adobe Dynamic PDF technology enables you to connect, interact, and engage in powerful new ways.  Streamline how your team works, collaborates, and creates high-impace communications--all with the reliability, visual fidelity, and control you expect from Adobe.  Designed to meet the needs of today's businesses, Adobe Dynamic PDF helps your team get more done--easier, faster, better.

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Deliver professional documents
Easily organize content from a variety of sources--including documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web pages--in a single searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your company logo and colors. Quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Create and manage forms
Simplify the creation and completion of forms to efficiently analyze and use data. Convert Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF forms with automatic recognition of fillable fields. Or use Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES software, a professional form design tool included with Acrobat 9 Pro software, to further customize and automate dynamic XML forms. Extend Acrobat functionality to Reader users so virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. And easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

Manage document reviews
Accelerate the exchange of ideas with colleagues, extended teams, and customers. Through easy-to-manage electronic document reviews, participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are being made, so you can quickly gain the input and consensus you need to efficiently develop and complete work. Enable virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software to participate in reviews, and use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Protect documents and accelerate information exchange with PDF.

Acrobat lets you combine files from multiple applications into a single Adobe PDF document.

With a scanner and Acrobat's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, you can turn stacks of paper documents into easily searchable electronic PDF archives.

Help protect sensitive information
Control access to and use of PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity. Set document permissions to define whether a file can be printed or changed. Apply passwords to help restrict document access. Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive information. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document security policies to precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.

Top reasons to buy Acrobat 9 Pro

Deliver a compelling branded experience using PDF Portfolios
Bring multiple files together in a single organized and interactive PDF Portfolio. Add video, sound clips, documents, and your own branding.  Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your logo and include descriptions to guide recipients through the contents.

Help protect your documents
Use passwords to control access to PDF documents. Use permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering. Save passwords and permissions as security policies that can be easily applied to new PDF files.

Find lost files fast
Keep your documents organized--easily.  Simply convert and archive all your e-mails and attachments into searchable PDF files--directly from Microsoft Outlook and Lotus notes.  The next time you need to find something, it's only a keyword away.

Share dynamic work in a dynamic way
Engage colleagues by integrating video clips and Adobe Flash Player compatible animations directly into your PDF documents.  With native Flash technologies, no additional media player is necessary for playback--virtually anyone, anywhere can enjoy the show.

Manage and track electronic document reviews
Gain the input you need through interactive document reviews that enable participants to see and build on other reviewers' comments, which can be sorted by author, date, or page. Use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Include Adobe Reader users
Enable users of free Adobe Reader software to digitally sign documents, participate in shared document reviews, and save forms locally. By extending Acrobat functionality to Reader users, virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate.

Synchronize document views
Provide clarity and enhance discussion by e-mailing a PDF document and walking recipients through it in real time by controlling the exact page view they see.

Remove sensitive information
Use redaction tools to black out any text, illustrations, or confidential data--permanently deleting the content from your PDF document.  You can also inspect files for metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information.

Compare PDF documents
Automatically highlight the differences between two versions of a PDF document, including text and images, so you can quickly and easily identify what has changed.

Improve print processes
Help control costs and reduce errors with automated output controls to preview, preflight, correct, and prepare PDF files for high-end print production and digital publishing.

Create and validate accessible PDF documents
Ensure your PDF documents are optimized for people with disabilities. Quickly evaluate, correct, and automatically tag PDF documents for optimized accessibility and reflow.

Product Description

Adobe Acrobat Professional v 9.0 Mac

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mac Version Does Not Support Word .docx Rich Content to PDF, June 29, 2009

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David L. Sieving - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Acrobat Professional 9 [Mac] [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

I used this product just long enough to discover that the Mac version does not support rich content when converting Word .doc or .docx files to PDF. Internal links (cross-references to bookmarks in the same document), for example, are not converted. For that, I was told after several support calls, one needs the Windows version, which is supposed to come with PDFMaker for use in such conversions.

All that was several weeks ago. It took that long, working faithfully with the call center from day to day and from week to week to sort out (1) who I am - I had an older customer ID associated with a purchase made years ago, and it took several calls to figure out the customer ID under which my Acrobat 9 purchase was made; (2) make them realize that I'd uploaded my software destruction agreement as a prerequisite to the license swap that would get me the Windows version; (3) confirm shipment. The Windows version is due to arrive this week. All I can do is hope that I don't have to call back and start over at the beginning.

Adobe makes great products and is uniquely situated in today's ebook marketplace as the purveyor of PDF, the new preferred format for the Kindle DX. They won't have to do much to ride the wave of success built on quality and market positioning made all the more profitable by this new wave of good fortune. There isn't much in this mix to motivate a more efficient customer support organization, and it shows.

The call center people are very sharp and helpful but mired in a disjointed business model. They do the best they can.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Acrobar Professional 9 for Mac, May 1, 2010

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Paul J. Vitol (Ashburn, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Acrobat Professional 9 [Mac] [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

I had used Acrobat for Windows for years and liked it very much. A stable and useful program.

I got an IMac and the Mac version of the same program. Whatta dog! The program hung up on its own files when doing a search on the same HD as the application. You got an error message when you tried to update saying the original file had changed and that you had to reinstall. It was a stupid error message in that updates created a different file than the original (duh, Adobe). The final straw was that I got an error message saying my original program was part of a suite (it wasn't) and that I should activate with another product of that suite that I did not have.

It has been three weeks since my latest Adobe case number and they seem to be more interested in getting CS5 out than improving current programs and making them usable.

Steve Jobs was right in not allowing Adobe products to run on Apple machines.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As Writer & Artist, I Use It Daily WITH Mac's iWork 09, August 23, 2009

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carol irvin "carol irvin" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Acrobat Professional 9 [Mac] [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

I need this product because of the things that I do. I am an artist and a writer. This product may be overkill, however, for those who do not have a professional use for it. Another reviewer mentions on this page that a serious problem with it is that it does not natively support certain microsoft document files. I bet the reason for that is that most of us using Macs use iWork 09 as our Word equivalent software. Thus, Pages software opens a document file and then you may convert it to whatever you wish. I used to keep Open Office on my macbook but then I discovered that between the Adobe products and iWork 09, I really no longer needed Open Office. I had used Open Office to replace Microsoft Office since it is freeware and essentially the same software as MS Office. Remember, this is a product for Macs and it usually works best to use Mac products along with the Adobe products. The first reviewer covers all the things this product does very, very well so I will not reiterate all of that. I think what this product is called "professional" pretty much sums up the user for it. You can use lesser versions if this does not address your professional needs.