Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional Upgrade from Professional Version 6 [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Features

• Create PDF files with the click of a button from Microsoft applications and AutoCAD
• Create a single Adobe PDF document from multiple sources, including portions of Web pages and previously combined Adobe PDF documents
• Use the included Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 software to create PDF forms that look like the paper forms they replace
• Easily attach source documents such as spreadsheets, multimedia files, images, and drawings to an Adobe PDF document
• Enable anyone with free Adobe Reader 7.0 software to use highlighter, sticky note, pen, and other commenting tools

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 2 inches
• 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: B00069DSRC
• Item model number: 22020215
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 15, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,301 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #3 in Software > Web Development > Internet Utilities > Electronic Publishing
  • #7 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Scanning & OCR
  • #28 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Document Creation

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

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. Manage document reviews, synthesizing feedback from multiple reviewers while preserving document format and integrity. Extend commenting capabilities to anyone using Adobe Reader 7.0 and design intelligent Adobe PDF forms that include business logic, such as calculations and data validations, to help increase the accuracy of data collection while reducing the costs of manual data entry.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid: "Worse than Malware", April 6, 2005

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R. A. Levien "Aldaron" (Lexington, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional Upgrade from Professional Version 6 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Don't take my word for it that's a quote from the title of a recent post excoriating this irritating and increasingly bloated product on Slashdot.

Be warned: Adobe has not learned its lesson, and despite the outcry that followed the release of version 6, this latest release of Acrobat continues Adobe's aggressive trend of intruding into your desktop environment, again, as in version 6 without providing an easy way to undo the damage once its done--in fact, it's now nearly impossible. Like earlier releases, this version of Acrobat adds startup macros and new toolbar buttons to your existing applications and adds menu entries to your desktop "right click" menus. Adobe argues that these are conveniences, but they are entirely unnecessary (for most of us "printing" to Adobe PDF achieves the same result, is much more convenient, and a more natural model), and clutter what for most users is either a too-crowded user interface (for those who don't have the knowledge or patience to customize it) or a carefully tuned one (for those who do). Unlike many well-behaved applications that provide obvious ways of avoiding this kind of intrusive and disruptive behavior (e.g. through a simple checkbox option in a settings dialog), Acrobat's "option" for disabling this behavior, once deeply hidden in the setup process,is now almost completely absent. To disable the "Convert to Adobe PDF" button that mysteriously appears in the Outlook mail editor, for example, one has to be sure to choose "this feature will not be available" from the "Microsoft Outlook" option under "Acrobat PDFMaker" under "Create Adobe PDF". Simply deleting the button using Outlook's toolbar customization feature will not work: it comes right back when the editor is next opened. Similar problems arise in Word, Excel, Visio, Project, and Internet Explorer. And there's simply no way to get rid of the never-used "Convert to Adobe PDF" and "Combine in Acrobat..." entries in that appear in the desktop context menus for files (even if one installs none of the Acrobat PDFMaker features).

For the technically inclined wishing to repair some of the damage that Acrobat 7 does, there are complex but largely effective step by step instructions available on the web, but even the authors of these are driven to despair by version 7: ("Adobe has really pushed the boat out with Acrobat 7 and managed to screw Word royally") .

In short, Acrobat will make a mess of your working environment, there's no way to completely fix it, and even the partial fix is a pain (and not well documented). (This may seem a minor issue, but if every application followed Adobe's reckless example, our working environments would start to look like strip malls, crowded with features screaming for our attention to the point where it is hard to find what we need when we need it. One of the great strengths of the personal computer desktop is that users can configure it in ways that suit their needs; no application should interfere with that.)

Experienced Acrobat users will also notice that this version continues another frustrating trend for Acrobat (and most other Adobe applications): it is yet again slower to launch than the previous version. In fact, on my 2 GHz Pentium 4, it takes longer to launch than the entire Visual Studio .NET development environment, and longer than the boot sequence for Windows XP!

There are other minor problems as well (arbitrary rearrangements of menu and tool bar items, etc.) but these two major flaws are more than bad enough. Unless you really need the latest Acrobat features, you should probably avoid this upgrade. And if the "improvements" in this release are any indication of where Adobe plans to go with future releases, it may be time to start looking elsewhere for a tool for digital document management.

Fortunately, there's no reason at all to upgrade. Version 7 offers no usefully new features, so you can (and should) avoid this one (at all costs).

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good upgrade..!!!, January 10, 2005

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Srinivas Katta "cyberdentist" (Gainesville, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional Upgrade from Professional Version 6 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I have been using v.7 from the last week or so and i am very pleased with it. It loads very fast (unlike all other adobe versions), the conversion to PDF from doc or ppt files also is much quicker.

I have not encountered any problems yet, but its only been 7 days since i am using it..

Definitely worth the upgrade.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bummer, February 2, 2005

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Louis A. Schenfeld - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional Upgrade from Professional Version 6 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

If you use Microsoft Office (Word, Excel) don't buy it! Links to your previous .pdf simply don't work. Adobe knows about it, but have no viable work around. Stick with prevous versions.