Customer Reviews

Adobe Acrobat Standard 8.0 Upgrade from Standard V5+ [OLD VERSION]

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I love the product. I especially like being able to type text onto scanned pdf documents. Extremely helpful for filling in government or preset forms. I should have checked the nnumber of licenses with the upgrade (only 2). I use on my office, home and laptop computers. A single license is not available so I had to buy two full upgrades.

Product as usual works as described, but help through the product or parent company is lacking.
I upgraded from version 5 and had no major problems (although you cannot run both versions in that 8 removes 5 from your system) with installation.
Once you are in 8 much has changed and even with a large degree of compter savy working through the changes were not intuitive nor were the help files clear and easy.

Adobe Standard 8.0 is worth the upgrade from earlier versions. If you do research and want a better interface, design and functions then you need this new version of Adobe. It is an incredible tool for gathering, sorting, copying and formatting information. It also is faster than older versions. See details (above) on Amazon. Recommended for all information-knowledge workers.

Adobe Acrobat Standard 8.0 installed with ease on my XP system and "worked" just fine. However, after registering my product I was "offered", a short time later, the latest update from Adobe to version 8.1.1. DON'T download and install this update.....it took forever to do so and afterwards every time I opened a .pdf in Adobe I would receive a message stating that: "Adobe has caused an error in IE and will now close"...and it would close! The updated version (Adobe Acrobat 8.1.1) was unusable! Thank goodness for GoBack (i.e. System Restore) as I was able to restore my operating system to a point before I installed that update. My Adobe Acrobat 8.0 works fine once again but I will always say NO to any further updates!

Installed as an upgrade from V5.5. LOVE the program, especially the OCR capability to reverse a pdf to editable text. Highly recommended product for any office that sends a lot of documents via fax. Instead of faxing now I send via email as a scanned pdf and don't have to pay the long distance phone bill to fax out of the area.

The upgrade presents a good value for a Vista-compatible product that includes improvements to ease of use, particularly for combining documents into a single PDF.

I just updgraded from version 7 for the sole purpose of being able to PDF Office 2007 files. It doesn't work yet. Complex graphics with the new sophisticated Office 2007 drop shadows do not convert well. The free Microsoft plug does a good job in about 30% of the time. I am waiting for the patch

Two problems. One is not enough documentation. The second is that, although the upgrade is an improvement over previous version, it is not a $100 (it's price) improvement over the previous version. $50 - $60 yes. $100, no.

I was concerned that this version from Amazon was not Windows Vista compatible. It is! Just install then go to Help > Check for Updates and you will get version 8.1.1 which does work on Vista. I am very happy with this version of Acrobat. It can make a PDF from an Excel workbook regardless of the number of worksheets -- even if there are different print settings between worksheets.

I have used versions 5, 7, and 8. I avoided 6 due to bad reviews. I only upgraded from 5 because it would not properly print revision triangles I used in many of my documents. Other than that, 5 was the best version of all. Easier to use, and I could read the preview screen.