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With Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, Adobe offers a redesigned, Universal version of its flagship application for creating and distributing PDF (Portable Document Format) content. The new release focuses on and underscores the growing importance of collaboration and digital document management.
With this version, which will be part of Creative Suite 3, Mac users now have only one choice: Acrobat 8 Professional. Once you get over the loss of the Standard edition, you'll probably love what you see. First and foremost, it looks and feels like a true Mac OS X application. It sports a redesigned, task-oriented user interface with customizable toolbars. And, on Intel Macs, Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional feels remarkably faster than its predecessor.
Acrobat 8 Pro introduces some innovative new features. For example, the new Combine Files wizard makes it easy to arrange a set of files and merge them into a single PDF document or assemble them into a PDF package (a container for multiple documents). A PDF package preserves the security settings of the original files, such as digital signatures, and can protect its contents with additional security features.
Acrobat 8 Pro can also create a blank-page document, and it gives you some basic tools to add text to it right away.
This new version brings collaboration to a new level with a feature called Shared Reviews. A shared review relies on a shared folder, which functions as a central hub for the exchange of annotations between team members. A small helper process runs in the background to retrieve new comments and deliver updated versions of files. Best of all, it also works when Acrobat 8 Pro is not running.
A PDF file that is part of a shared review carries the network address of the shared folder and a unique review ID, which allows your comments to reach the shared folder regardless of your location. That means you can distribute copies of the file via e-mail, a document management system, a network shared folder, or the Web.
