Acrobat finds a new home on the Web
posted by admin in Home DepotThe past few weeks, Adobe has been doing its best Apple imitation, with a slew of product news aimed at creative professionals.
Macworld has already carried profiles of Acrobat 9 and Acrobat.com this week. But I thought it would be a good idea to look at Monday’s announcements from a creative pro perspective.
With Acrobat 9 Pro, designers can combine PDF files, video, audio, and other documents into easy-to-distribute PDF Portfolios, which are simple to browse using customizable interactive navigation designed in Adobe Flash. Designers also can include Adobe Flash Player-compatible video and application files in their PDF files and then play back this content in Acrobat 9 Pro and Adobe Reader 9.
Users of Adobe Acrobat Packages in previous versions of Acrobat will see some minor updates and a name change to PDF Portfolios. The OCR scanning engine has seen a minor update, among several other features already available in Acrobat 8.
Overall, I don’t see any huge changes for most print designers, which is actually a good thing in our industry. Instead, the bigger news this week was the unveiling of Acrobat.com. If Acrobat’s primary home is on the user’s desktop, you might say that this the application adds a condo on the beach in the form of this Web based-component.
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