Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional [OLD VERSION]

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008ZGS2
• Item model number: Version 6.0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 27, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,699 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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  #24 in	Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Document Creation

• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional software allows business, creative, and engineering professionals who work with graphically complex documents to exchange business-critical documents accurately and efficiently. Convert any document to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), and with one click from Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Project, as well as from Microsoft Visio and AutoCAD, preserve document layers.

Combine multiple documents—including large-format technical drawings and page layouts—into one compact Adobe PDF file in a single step. Automatically initiate and manage document reviews using intuitive electronic tools. Create forms that can be exchanged with colleagues and customers, and archive your project files as searchable Adobe PDF files.

View, navigate, and comment on large-format documents with tools that eliminate the need for paper-based reviews, making it faster and easier to meet critical deadlines. Streamline proofing cycles with robust tools that let you automatically track, manage, and incorporate electronic feedback. View detailed artwork or large-format documents with intuitive navigation tools. Output PDF/X-compliant files, and help eliminate surprises at the printer by preflighting files and previewing and printing color separations.

Product Description
Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional for PC . Use Adobe Acrobat to convert any document to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Adobe PDF files can be opened reliably across a broad range of hardware and software, and look just like your original files. Easily convert your Microsoft Office documents to Adobe PDF. Simply click the Convert to Adobe PDF button on the Microsoft Office application toolbar. Gather research information from the Web by downloading and converting Web pages to an Adobe PDF file. Saved as an Adobe PDF file with active links, your Web content is easy to archive, print, and distribute reliably. Convert unlimited paper documents to Adobe PDF files. If you require searchable Adobe PDF files, you can use the Paper Capture feature within the Create Adobe PDF Online service. You receive three free trials per day.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

96 of 98 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Intrusive and Slow, June 24, 2003

By	R. A. Levien "Aldaron" (Lexington, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Be warned: this latest release of Acrobat continues Adobe's aggressive trend of intruding into your desktop environment, this time without providing an easy way to undo the damage once its done. 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 are deeply hidden in the setup process. 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).

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.

49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Really a mess, January 12, 2005

By	Kimba W. Lion "kimbawlion.com" (the East Coast) - See all my reviews

It's obvious that Adobe feels safe and entrenched as THE maker of PDF creation software, because Acrobat installs like a herd of elephants moving in to your computer. It completely re-worked my MS Word toolbars and would not allow me to restore them the way I want them. (Even after un-installation, there is still something at work against my normal.dot template.) Other applications felt the impact, too. All I want is a way to make PDF files, not a new lifestyle.

Unfortunately, Acrobat 6 could not deliver the PDF files for me. On a P4, 1.8 Ghz system, I allowed it to process my Word document for 5 hours before I gave up and had to get some real work done. I went and found activePDF Composer, which handled the same Word file and delivered my PDF file in just 10 minutes.

Get over yourself, Adobe.

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too Many Bugs...Wait for First Service Pack, June 28, 2003

By	Philip G. Michaels (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews

Unfortunately it looks like Adobe released Acrobat 6 too early. There are quite a few bugs and problems with no fixes yet. In general the program operates much slower than Acrobat 5. The main problem many users, including myself, presently have with Acrobat 6 is that we can not import a scan from our scanners. Some scanners work, but many do not (including most if not all HP USB scanners, and many other manufacturer USB scanners). There is presently no fix for the problem. I needed to be able to scan images into acrobat, so I had to temporarily uninstall Acrobat 6 and downgrade myself to Acrobat 5 until the problems are worked out. Adobe does not provide any time frame when a service pack to fix this problem will be made available. I suggest that potential buyers examine the Adobe users forum to see the many problems people are encountering with Acrobat 6... My suggestion is to wait until Adobe works out the problems in this version before you purchase it. They are a good company, so I know they will eventually get to fixing all the problems. Those of us who paid the money for the software already are stuck waiting for this to happen. In my case, the software is essentially useless until this happens. Good luck, if you decide to get it now. In my opinion, Adobe just released this one too eary. Hopefully next time they will test it first.