Adobe Systems today announce the latest version to the Adobe acrobat family. The Adobe® Acrobat® 8 Professional released includes a lot of bug fixes and improvements.
It offers significant increase in conversion speeds and load time. This version offers seemless integration to the Adobe Acrobat Connect line of products. The users can easily collect and distribute forms, combine collected forms into a searchable, sortable PDF package, and export collected data into a spreadsheet. The encryption algorithms are improved and its made easy to assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity.
This version support imports from Microsoft Office, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, AutoCAD®, Lotus Notes, or any application that prints create Adobe PDF documents. It also includes features like scaning paper documents with OCR technology to create compact, searchable Adobe PDF documents, Convert web pages to Adobe PDF format, unified header, footer and water marking, PDF optimisation, individual file security settings and more.
The Price of Preorder Professional version : US $449
Web: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/
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Is the Acrobat Reader updated?
EDIT: No it’s still at v 7.0.8