Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard Upgrade from Standard Version 4-6 (Mac) [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Features

• Easily create Adobe PDF files—create PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Enjoy improved performance—with improved performance you can quickly convert, collect, and organize Adobe PDF documents.
• Assemble documents—create a single Adobe PDF file from multiple sources—including Web pages and e-mail—to deliver one professional document that anyone can open using free Adobe Reader 7.0 software.
• Protect sensitive and confidential documents—control documents inside and outside the firewall, online and offline.
• Enjoy improved attachment capabilities—easily attach source files such as spreadsheets and images to an Adobe PDF document.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 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: B00069E8RG
• Item model number: 12001715
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 15, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,109 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #26 in Software > Web Development > Internet Utilities > Electronic Publishing
  • #63 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Scanning & OCR

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard software is the simple way to create and share more secure and reliable Adobe PDF documents. Generate Adobe PDF files that accurately represent the original document, and take advantage of robust tools for sharing information and commenting on electronic files.

Create and share documents quickly and easily

Create Adobe PDF documents from Microsoft Outlook
Collect, convert, and organize Microsoft Outlook e-mails into searchable Adobe PDF documents. Include attachments, links, and bookmarks sorted by sender, date, or subject. (Windows only)

Turn stacks of documents into easily searchable PDF archives.

Convert paper to electronic format
Scan paper document archives to create compact, searchable Adobe PDF documents.

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

Combine different files to create an organized document

Assemble documents
Create a single Adobe PDF file from multiple sources--including Web pages and e-mail--to deliver one professional document that anyone can open using free Adobe Reader 7.0 software.

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

Add your own headers, footers, or watermarks.

Use enhanced headers, footers, and watermarks
Easily add headers, footers, and watermarks.

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

Enjoy improved attachment capabilities
Easily attach source files such as spreadsheets and images to an Adobe PDF document.

Use familiar tools for review and commenting

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

Easily manage comments from multiple reviewers.

Manage reviews
Collect comments, not rewrites, from multiple reviewers that appear together in a single Adobe PDF document. Manage comments using sort and filter tools.

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

Protect document content to help preserve its integrity

Protect sensitive and confidential documents
Control 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 restrict whether Adobe PDF documents can be printed or changed.

Sign documents digitally
Sign electronic documents using digital signatures.

Product Description

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard software is the quick and easy way to create and share Adobe PDF documents. You can convert files from applications such as Microsoft Office into Adobe PDF documents that can be read by anyone using free Adobe Reader software. Combine spreadsheets, presentations, images, and other files into a consolidated Adobe PDF document that others can read but not alter. Offer reviewers familiar commenting tools to quickly gather input. View comments and feedback from multiple reviewers, and then generate an Adobe PDF file with advanced security features that accurately represents the original document.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Reason to Upgrade, August 18, 2005

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Wild West (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard Upgrade from Standard Version 4-6 (Mac) [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Acrobat 7 Standard on the Mac offers nearly all the features of Acrobat 7 Professional. The windows version of Professional 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.