Customer Reviews

Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 [OLD VERSION]

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I was very pleasantly surprised with this release. I had used Acrobat years ago and always found it lacking compared to Microsoft Word. However, it has surpassed most of Word's capabilities. The ability to generate a document that people can edit directly, with only acrobat reader installed has helped me significantly in my multi-platform work environment.

The only thing missing is a true index capability. The lack of that feature would significantly hamper anyone who wanted to use this to generate true documentation.

Good upgrade in terms of features. Essential for Vista. However, the license policy ignores modern life. Most business workers have 3 machines: 1) a desktop at work, 2) a desktop at home, and 3) a portable for travel. The license permits only two installations, which Adobe monitors. According to Adobe customer service, you can always buy a second license. I'm sure that spending the extra money will make you feel really good about Adobe. Even Microsoft recognizes modern life and permits 3 installations.

Now! Make anything into a pdf and edit it like a wizard!

I use it to create a magazine... flawlessly. Too many "graphic artists" don't know their basics: this at least fixes a lot of glitches before it hits press or the web.

Nicely makes editing pdfs easy. A LOT of tricks for a pro!

I am not happy with this software. For no reason I can understand it will duplicate a line on the document so that you have two identical lines of the document right under each other. Also it will duplicate part of the top of the document at the bottom. This only seems to happen when you create multi page PDF files. This makes it virtually unusable for me. The features though look great.

I like how this version previews the documents, shows a loading bar in the lower window. Good updates and support for graphics card rendering (which i can't "tell" but it is a smooth and nice to view and edit PDFs. My first complaint is with the Combine Files window, which got some fixes in the 8.0 to 8.1 update, but I would rather the added files are listed in alpha-numeric order rather than the apparently random order they list themselves in now. I also when you load a batch of pdfs to be combined they are all all selected - to deselect them, you have to make the window bigger and find blank space below the last file and click on that blank space, clicking on one selected file does not deselect all of them and select the one you click like you would think it should. I want to drag around the files to reorder them, i don't want to select one at a time and click Move Up or Move Down to re-order the list. I am happy with the end file size, I am happy with the program speed, I am happy that Control-Shift-W works. I think Adobe needs a feedback tool like apple's feedback tool for apple products, very clean and logical. I would rather tell them my problems with the product. I also with that the PDF Printer got updated to 8.1 when the rest of the program did, the adobe supplied pdf printer still shows 8.0 (this is somewhat psychological but no less important).

Been using it for years (the Windows version, anyway). New that I like is the review cycle for anyone with Adobe Reader, and the support for WebDAV as a storage target for reviews. The redaction tool is OK.

The "create" functions are very nice also, particularly creating a multi-document PDF to send out as a single Email attachment from several smaller files.

Works well - Universal Binary means it runs much cooler and with less battery drain that Office.

I recently upgraded to XP Pro. My trusty Acrobat 4.0 was no longer compatible with my OS. I purchased Acrobat Professional 8 because I wanted continued access to the "forms function." What was a functional, intuitive product has become a product that only a computer science major could love.

Thus far I have found:

1) When I open a document with form fields already embedded, I find I cannot access a view where I can edit the form fields, e.g., expand the size of the field or insert a new one. This was trivial in Acrobat 4.

2) I tried downloading part of a website as an Acrobat document. Access to the website required entry of simple password for all users. The download died on this page. I've not had time to try to explore why, but this, too, was trivial in Acrobat 4. Perhaps it is a DRM issue?

I hate to be a Luddite, but sometimes 'simple is beautiful.'

Making space for my Win98/Acrobat 4 machine is not an option. Too often recently created Acrobat documents are unreadable with this officially abandoned software combination.