Why I buy this one ?
- 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.

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What our customer's say!

"Adobe Acrobat", Adobe Acrobat is worth every penny. I'm glad we purchased it. Our purchase was easy and shipping was excellent.

"Falls Way Short of Expectations", This piece of software is disappointing at best. Too many seemingly basic things are incredibly difficult to do. For example, try formatting text from the default red, 10 point font. Only a search of the internet clued me in that pressing "Ctrl - E" would magically pop up a text formatting toolbar. Merging pdfs is clunky at best. There is no simple way to add pages from one file to a new one. Toolbars seem to disappear at will. I would not recommend spending 200+ dollars for this unpredictable piece of software. Adobe should dominate the PDF creation market but it would take very little to surpass this product.

"Works Great!", I run this product on my WinXP desktop and Vista laptop. It installed easily and has been very stable for me (no lockups or crashes). I use it to create pdf documents and to fill out and save pdf forms. It has been working out great for me so far.

There have been quite a few reviews complaining about stability and installation issues. I haven't experienced those problems and do not know what the differences could be between my computers/software and theirs. There may be forums on the web that list the specifications of the computers experiencing these issues.

As far as I'm concerned, this product is very useful to me and I recommend it.


"Acrobat has become bloatware...", This is really quite disappointing- Acrobat, which used to be a quick, low-resource alternative to text delivery, has become a piece of software so bloated that it crashes constantly, takes an eternity to install or uninstall, and is generally not worth the upgrade. I'd wager that 90% of people would be just fine with Acrobat from 6 years ago, and most of the "features" added to this suite are unnecessary and actually detrimental to the software. Avoid, and look for open-source alternatives!

"Very Unstable!!!", Even after installing the 2 updates it still freezes (Windows XP). DO NOT upgrade to version 8 ...

Read this reviews before You buy...

"adobe acrobat 8", this is a very useful product for a law firm like us because we make forms and we interact with clients using safe passwords... so after making a wonderfully useful form, we emailed to client with a password to open so that they could fill it up and email back to us.... but our clients who had lower version/free version of adobe couldn't do that. they just had to print the form out and mail to us... which made this whole password business silly. do they have to buy this same product to do what we want to do?

"By all means try before you buy!", I'm so glad that I installed a trial version of Acrobat 8 Professional prior to buying it. Luckily, I did not need to uninstall a working version of the product in order to install the trial version, unlike the previous reviewer. The program crashed at least a dozen times during my first hour of use, and I wasn't trying to do anything complicated. For example, the program simply disappeared without a trace when I pressed the Settings button during a Save as... dialog or attempted to Edit -> Preferences for HTML export.

"Great must-have product", Creating a pdf from any other format is almost a must capabiity, however I was a bit disappointed Adobe imbedded itself everywhere. Good from a usability standpoint, but ask me first if I want to do that. In all, no problems with the product, in installation or use.
Window Media Center, Gateway laptop w/ AMD Turion64 & 1 gig RAM.

"FUBAR", Software that repeatedly crashes and requires multiple reloadings deserves NO STARS, but amazon does not allow that option, so this gets 1 star.

Having owned versions 4, 5, 6 and now 8, I've watched this product add features, and with them glitches. Would it be a great product if it worked? Yes. Unfortunately, it crashes, and crashes and crashes.

Adobe has already issued two update fixes, but still it crashes.

Not good.

UPDATE: Since writing the above, I have purchased a new HP desktop and Acrobat generally works on it. The major exceptions are the actions listed under the Document tab, especially Reduce File Size, which simply crashes as soon as you click on it. For anyone who stores large files, this is a significant defect.

My old computer (a Gateway) was about five years old. Both computers run on Windows XP, so the operating system is not the cause of the crashes.

2nd UPDATE: Today [02/06/08] Adobe released Ver. 8.1.2. It's still screwed up.

3rd UPDATE 02/23/08: There is an alternative on the horizon, PDF Converter Professional 5.0 by Nuance Communications, which sells OmniPage 16 Professional. Nuance has an ugly history of selling software before its time (i.e., using early purchasers as beta sites), but it's the only real alternative I've been able to find. There are other shareware programs, but they don't have the functionality of Adobe Acrobat 8.

UPDATE #4 02/26/08: Well, it looks like PDF Converter Professional 5 also lacks the functionality of Adobe Acrobat 8. I went to Nuance's website and downloaded the new version, only to find that it lacks support for scanners. (This is strange because Nuance's flagship product, Omnipage, does include support for scanners.) It does, however, include features for inserting, extracting, replacing, deleting, cropping and rotating pages, which I had been having trouble with in Adobe. In its promotional materials, Nuance claims that it will create headers and footers, but I see no evidence of that.

"Money well spent", Very pleased with the software. Easy install, no system conflicts and all the added upgrades, wizards and gizmos makes this product much more than simply a PDF maker. I'm a skeptic with most things, but this time my expectations were surpassed.