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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"Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0 Upgrade from Pro V5+ [OLD VERSION] ", First - Kudos [...]!

I've been a long time user of Adobe Acrobat products - back to the original version. I've upgraded periodically, but had stopped at Ver. 5 and 6.

Version 8 finally had enough feature and interface upgrades to warrant me popping for the upgrade. I was VERY PLEASE with the new look and all the *new* features that I had been missing.

Along with the new product came some downloadable or viewable tutorials which eased the pain of getting into all of the new features.

ONE ISSUE! Within a week or two of buying 8.0 Professional - I was on the Adobe website and saw that Ver. 9 was already announced/released. Bummer!

I was able to contact Adobe and qualified for the FREE update - but I wish that there had been some notification or automatic offer to upgrade the product at the time that I purchased it OR when it was registered.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND this product . . .but at this point . . .Go with Ver. 9!

"Great Item", The software does what it claims to do, Im very satisfied with it, i'm glad I upgraded.

"Upgraded from V6", After reading the reviews on installation problems, I was a little nervous about installing this software. The installation could have been smoother, but it installed alright. Although it did detect my older version (Standard V6), and advised me to uninstall the old version prior to installing the newer one; when it came to verifying if I had a qualifying product the installation program could not detect that I had V6. Now it was requiring that I type in the serial number of the older version. Because of that I spent about 4 hours looking for the older software and software case that had the serial number for V6. After typing in the serial number of V6, the software installation continued without a problem.

I like this software, and it is much faster then V6, though I haven't checked out all the features. I'm still evaluating this product. One thing I like about the Pro version is the built in OCR. It's not the greatest recognition software, but if your scanned document has standard type it does a good job converting. It does not perform well if the document contains fancy fonts; especially script fonts.

"hdinap", I upgraded from Acrobat Pro 6 to Pro 8 and have been pleased with some of the new features the Pro 8 version has. I haven't reviewed all of those features but the one I like very much so far is the "typewriter" feature. It's very convenient when I download a form from some other source and can just start typing in it. I'm sure I'll have many more surprises in store when I start converting Word docs also.

"Great Service From Amazon", I ordered this and it was shipped here within a week. The product is as expected and installed ok after a bit of persuasion with Vista!

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"The same awful experience.", The "bad serial number" routine as the first reviewer. I'll try Adobe Customer Service when I stop fuming.

"Maybe this will improve, but Quality Control for Adobe went down", I use Adobe Acrobat Professional extensively both as an attorney and as a researcher/author. Because of the new features advertised which would enhance Acrobat storage of PowerPoint presentations, I bought it off the shelves at a local Staples office supply dealer. I am proficient at my own installations and expected no trouble on this. It acted like a virus. The program did not finish installing. Worse yet, it corrupted the underlying 7.0 installation and fixed that so the Windows Controller program could not install it. I had to hack through the registry to remove traces of it. Finally I got to a stage where it appeared to be going through the registry process again. Then I received the coup de grace -- a BAD SERIAL NUMBER MESSAGE. I checked carefully and it matched the serial number exactly as on the label sent by Adobe inside its factory package. I used MicroSoft OneNote to make a colored screen copy of this phenonema and marched the package back to Staples where they refunded my money. It's too bad about the 20 plus billable hours as a lawyer lost to this process. My experiences in calling Adobe in the past when I puzzled through a far lesser discourage me from wanting to talk to their technical support people (who too often know less than me given the increasingly apparent out-sourcing to people who read from a script and give us credit for knowing far less than we do). At any rate, I am now bitter. My 7.08 installation of Adobe worked great on my favorite computer where I had the bulk of my multimedia presentations which I hoped to reduce complete with sounds to the Adobe 8.0 format. I suspect that wrong serial numbers were slapped on the packages. I am deeply disappointed, even ANGRY at the inconvenience this has caused me. I took it home and tried it on my desktop there and it also would not complete the installation and ruined my chances of a clean uninstallation of 7.0. Deactivation of 7.0 could not take place either after installation of 8.0. I don't know what Adobe was thinking -- or if they were thinking. I have been a loyal customer of theirs for many years, but I'm thinking distinctly non-charitable thoughts about them this early morning. I hope they get their act together -- soon. They owe us all a quick fix and patch and they need DEEP REPENTANCE for the damage this did to Windows XP home installations which also appear to be corrupted in the process of installing this "upgrade" program which acts more like a computer worm or virus than a program.

"Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0", This is a major upgrade from previous versions . . . much easier to use and a much cleaner format.

"Finally some good compression for scanned text/image", I bought this package because I wanted good, high-compression universally accessible documents and images for my personal web page. (Google Werbos).
Finally, after zillions of googles on compression technology and trying many other things (see my other reviews), I found something that really, really works well, in a highly flexible and controllable way! What a relief! Much better than Acrobat 6.0, and other packages I have tried and reviewed.
The key capability lies in the "save as" command, which includes "optimized pdf" as one of the file types. The "settings" there gives you the power to choose JBIG2 and JPEG2000 compression, the very best formats for black and white or color scanned images or papers. And of course, as pdf, they are easy for anyone to read.
An example: two weeks ago, the world's top empirical nuclear physicist, in Japan, sent me a set of 24 1-meg JPEGs for a 24-page paper. Nothing I had would read it, except Microsoft Digital Image, which let me fix the pages and crop them; in Adobe 6.0, they ended up being a readable 14 meg document. No better. I printed it out at work, and scanned in the result at 400 dpi to a good modern copier/scanner. It ended up 5 megabytes. (The copier was modern and "intelligent".) Then, at home, in Adobe 6, it would
optimize it to pdf version 6, a nice 2.6 megabyte file. Today, I got it
to 940 K (and better quality, to the eye)in Acrobat 8.0, in a controllable
predictable way. I had previously tried many, many other options (including lots of Microsoft programs, all options).
If I understand what I have seen... I could have used Acrobat 8.0 DIRECTLY, without all that printout and scan nonsense! The direct control in the "save as" command gets rid of the need to do all that. What's more,
I just reduced a 3.5 meg file (from the best previous material) to 1.02 megs. (As best I recall, I used CVISION before and only got that file to 1.5-2 megs. Acrobat 8.0 seems to be doing much better.)
If you google a lot on compression and comparisons, you will see some small advantage of CVISION over older versions of Adobe Image Capture and Acrobat. But that's misleading. In Acrobat 6.0, I couldn't GET to that better compression. (Maybe if I had a PhD in Adobe, I could, but I tried hard..). With 8.0, it was easy. And the results are better than CVISION now, so far as I can tell. I certainly see no value at all in the new XPS formats Microsoft is touting, with Vista, now that something so much better is available.
One caveat: published benchmarks say that the DjVu format may be better yet. I did not consider it, partly because of cost, but more because everyone knows how to get the latest pdf reader but DjVu might stop people going to my web page. But if Google Books popularizes it, I might reconsider DjVu. But then again... knowing what lies behind DjVu.. we might figure out something even better... eventually... and maybe the future pdf standards will open to that!