Adobe Acrobat Professional 9 [Mac]

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Product Features

• Deliver the richest, most engaging PDF communications anytime, anywhere
• Unify the widest range of content--including documents, spreadsheets, e-mail, images, video, 3D, and maps--in a single compressed and organized PDF Portfolio
• Collaborate through shared document reviews, help protect and control sensitive information--quickly gain the input you need to efficiently develop and complete work
• Simplify the creation and completion of forms to efficiently analyze and use data
• Includes professional templates for PDF portfolios, Adobe Reader review and commenting, LiveCycle Designer ES for dynamic forms

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0018QY9WA
• Item model number: 12020597
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 30, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,013 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

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Communicate and collaborate more effectively and securely. Unify a wide range of content in a single organized PDF Portfolio. Collaborate through electronic document reviews. Create and manage dynamic forms. And help protect sensitive information.

Communicate and collaborate more easily and securely with Adobe PDF. For a more in-depth comparison, download a feature comparison (PDF format).

Deliver professional documents
Easily organize content from a variety of sources--including documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web pages--in a single searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your company logo and colors. Quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Create and manage forms
Simplify the creation and completion of forms to efficiently analyze and use data. Convert Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF forms with automatic recognition of fillable fields. Or use Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES software, a professional form design tool included with Acrobat 9 Pro software, to further customize and automate dynamic XML forms. Extend Acrobat functionality to Reader users so virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. And easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

Manage document reviews
Accelerate the exchange of ideas with colleagues, extended teams, and customers. Through easy-to-manage electronic document reviews, participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are being made, so you can quickly gain the input and consensus you need to efficiently develop and complete work. Enable virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software to participate in reviews, and use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Protect documents and accelerate information exchange with PDF.

Acrobat lets you combine files from multiple applications into a single Adobe PDF document.

With a scanner and Acrobat's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, you can turn stacks of paper documents into easily searchable electronic PDF archives.

Help protect sensitive information
Control access to and use of PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity. Set document permissions to define whether a file can be printed or changed. Apply passwords to help restrict document access. Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive information. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document security policies to precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.

Top reasons to buy Acrobat 9 Pro

Deliver a compelling branded experience using PDF Portfolios
Bring multiple files together in a single organized and interactive PDF Portfolio. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your logo and include descriptions to guide recipients through the contents.

Help protect your documents
Use passwords to control access to PDF documents. Use permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering. Save passwords and permissions as security policies that can be easily applied to new PDF files.

Easily create and manage electronic forms
Build dynamic forms, distribute and track forms and responses, and easily export data for analysis and reporting.

Manage and track electronic document reviews
Gain the input you need through interactive document reviews that enable participants to see and build on other reviewers' comments, which can be sorted by author, date, or page. Use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Include Adobe Reader users
Enable users of free Adobe Reader software to digitally sign documents, participate in shared document reviews, and save forms locally. By extending Acrobat functionality to Reader users, virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate.

Synchronize document views
Provide clarity and enhance discussion by e-mailing a PDF document and walking recipients through it in real time by controlling the exact page view they see.

Remove sensitive information
Use redaction tools to black out sensitive text, illustrations, or other information, permanently deleting the content from the PDF document. Inspect PDF documents for metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and remove before distributing to others.

Compare PDF documents
Automatically highlight the differences between two versions of a PDF document, including text and images, so you can quickly and easily identify what has changed.

Improve print processes
Help control costs and reduce errors with automated output controls to preview, preflight, correct, and prepare PDF files for high-end print production and digital publishing.

Create and validate accessible PDF documents
Ensure your PDF documents are optimized for people with disabilities. Quickly evaluate, correct, and automatically tag PDF documents for optimized accessibility and reflow.

Product Description

Adobe Acrobat v.9.0 Professional - MAC

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mac Version Does Not Support Word .docx Rich Content to PDF, June 29, 2009

By	David L. Sieving - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I used this product just long enough to discover that the Mac version does not support rich content when converting Word .doc or .docx files to PDF. Internal links (cross-references to bookmarks in the same document), for example, are not converted. For that, I was told after several support calls, one needs the Windows version, which is supposed to come with PDFMaker for use in such conversions.

All that was several weeks ago. It took that long, working faithfully with the call center from day to day and from week to week to sort out (1) who I am - I had an older customer ID associated with a purchase made years ago, and it took several calls to figure out the customer ID under which my Acrobat 9 purchase was made; (2) make them realize that I'd uploaded my software destruction agreement as a prerequisite to the license swap that would get me the Windows version; (3) confirm shipment. The Windows version is due to arrive this week. All I can do is hope that I don't have to call back and start over at the beginning.

Adobe makes great products and is uniquely situated in today's ebook marketplace as the purveyor of PDF, the new preferred format for the Kindle DX. They won't have to do much to ride the wave of success built on quality and market positioning made all the more profitable by this new wave of good fortune. There isn't much in this mix to motivate a more efficient customer support organization, and it shows.

The call center people are very sharp and helpful but mired in a disjointed business model. They do the best they can.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars At Work: Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Pro, December 22, 2008

By	Paul Gerstenbluth "Reviewer" (East Greenwich, RI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

What's New in Adobe Acrobat Pro?

First, there are new tools for graphics professionals in Acrobat. These new features are designed for graphic designers, production artists, and pre-press and printing professionals.

The new Touch Up Text tool lets users make last-minute text edits to a PDF file or edit images embedded in PDF documents by way of the new Graphics Select Tool.

More: What's New in Adobe Acrobat Pro

Easily convert files to PDF with Acrobat. It's now a snap to convert files in other formats to PDF. The user can drag and drop a graphic, spreadsheet, text, HTML, or other file onto the Acrobat icon. The file will automatically open as a new PDF file with Acrobat.

New Ease-of-Use Features

Adobe has also added new ease-of-use features to Acrobat software, including drag-and-drop conversion of Microsoft Word and other formatted files into PDF format.

* Yellow Highlighting Annotation Tools

Acrobat adds a set of new annotation tools: Yellow highlighting pen and a pencil tool. Now, adding changes to an Acrobat document is as easy as making corrections to a paper document.

* Highlight Text

Adobe Acrobat users can now emphasize words, sentences, or entire paragraphs in an Acrobat document using a digital yellow highlighter pen. The user can change the yellow to pink, blue, or a custom color.

The electronic highlighting marks in Acrobat show up when the document is photocopied or faxed. By comparison, highlighting marks made on paper documents does not show up when faxed or photocopied.

* Underline Text

Another way to call attention to a word or sentence in Acrobat 9 Pro is to underline it.

* Strike through Text

Acrobat 9 Pro users can now suggest editing cuts more explicitly by drawing a line through unwanted text.

Forms in Acrobat are Easier

Creating forms in Acrobat is easier because it comes with built-in functions for data calculations, validation and formatting. You don't need programming experience to create forms. Adobe Acrobat's simple "point-and-click" works together with pull-down menus and dialog boxes makes form creation fast and easy. Acrobat allows you not only to design forms in Microsoft Word or Adobe InDesign, and convert them to PDF. Now you make them dynamic documents that recipients with Acrobat or the free Acrobat Reader can fill out and return to you Online.

Pro Reaction

Adobe Acrobat easily creates and review PDF files. Now, you can publish PDF files anywhere. With free Acrobat Reader software, you can view, navigate and print PDF from Mac, Windows and UNIX computers.

Transfer PDF files to service bureaus and printers electronically. You can easily make brochures and presentations accessible worldwide. Also, you can post PDF documents such as HR forms online complete with links and bookmarks without reauthoring in HTML.

Con Reaction

Companies misuse Adobe Acrobat by not making bookmarks nor text links to navigate through their help software PDF manuals. In addition, two and three columns text PDFs are difficult to read on the computer screen.

Acrobat Standard only works on Windows computers. Acrobat Pro works on both Windows and Mac OS computers.

Personal Observation

I have always liked working with Adobe Acrobat. Most of my presentations were made using the slide show portion of Adobe Acrobat for cross-platform PC and Mac clients.

1.0 out of 5 stars Updater Makes me quit Safari., October 29, 2009

By	Benjamin W. Peek (Arlington, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Adobe needs to hire some developers with a pulse, or some kind of ability to empathize with it's users.. I get some annoying nagging icon, that keeps bouncing until i click it. Sorry Adobe products, but you are not that important to me, I don't think you deserve to bounce endlessly in my dock. Also, thanks for making me quit Safari to run your crappy update. So now instead of killing time while waiting for your crappy updates by browsing the internet, i get to sit and watch your crap slowly update.