Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0 Upgrade from Pro V5+ (Mac)

List Price: $159.00 Discount Price: $149.99

Features:

• Enable anyone using free Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8) to participate in document reviews, fill and save electronic forms offline, and digitally sign documents.
• Combine documents, drawings, and rich media content into a single, polished Adobe PDF document. Optimize file size and arrange files in any order regardless of file type, dimensions, or orientation.
• Send documents for review and track which reviewers have contributed feedback. Compile comments into a single PDF document with one-button ease and sort them by author, date, or page.
• Create Adobe PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Office applications. Windows users can also create Adobe PDF documents from Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, AutoCAD, and Lotus Notes.
• Combine multiple files as PDF documents in a searchable, sortable PDF package that maintains the individual security settings and digital signatures of each included PDF document.

Accessories:
Apple Mac OS X Version 10.5.1 Leopard	Apple Mac OS X Version 10.5.1 Leopard [5-User Family Pack]

Customer Reviews:

Not the Acrobat you know and love [Posted on 2007-02-17]
I've used the past few versions of Acrobat and this one is a disappointment. Navigation is a pain. Instead of the familiar window and arrows at the bottom of a page Adobe's engineers have moved navigation to the top of the page and have only a single arrow.The whole look and feel is most unMac-like, more like a windows application. I suppose if I wanted to take the time and energy to study the user manual I would find the application friendlier but I don't expect to have to re-learn to use an application when I upgrade. If you're thinking of upgrading, my advice is don't.

finally something for average users [Posted on 2007-05-16]
PLUS: Finally, Adobe managed to fix all bugs - I am still mad when I remember how I paid the upgrade from v4 to v5 only to discover the OCR was removed from v5 because Adobe was too lazy to fix it. Now in v8 there are all important features for normal users like myself:
- the OCR finally works; even on a normal G4; and it is (surprisingly) fast
- web capture can handle PNG files


MINUS:
-The price is quite high, the upgrade alone was $140- if I hadn't registered my previous software I am not sure I'd pay the full price.
-It took years to get to a working Mac version.
-Adobe's software updater - who needs it?

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