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 Non-intuitive Relative to Acrobat 4 Jun 16, 2008
I recently upgraded to XP Pro. My trusty Acrobat 4.0 was no longer compatible with my OS. I purchased Acrobat Professional 8 because I wanted continued access to the "forms function." What was a functional, intuitive product has become a product that only a computer science major could love.
Thus far I have found:
1) When I open a document with form fields already embedded, I find I cannot access a view where I can edit the form fields, e.g., expand the size of the field or insert a new one. This was trivial in Acrobat 4.
2) I tried downloading part of a website as an Acrobat document. Access to the website required entry of simple password for all users. The download died on this page. I've not had time to try to explore why, but this, too, was trivial in Acrobat 4. Perhaps it is a DRM issue?
I hate to be a Luddite, but sometimes 'simple is beautiful.'
Making space for my Win98/Acrobat 4 machine is not an option. Too often recently created Acrobat documents are unreadable with this officially abandoned software combination.
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Bad License Policy Mar 10, 2008
Good upgrade in terms of features. Essential for Vista. However, the license policy ignores modern life. Most business workers have 3 machines: 1) a desktop at work, 2) a desktop at home, and 3) a portable for travel. The license permits only two installations, which Adobe monitors. According to Adobe customer service, you can always buy a second license. I'm sure that spending the extra money will make you feel really good about Adobe. Even Microsoft recognizes modern life and permits 3 installations.
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BIG, BIG CAVEAT! Dec 07, 2007
If you have ever purchased a digital edition of a book from this site or another site in the past, do yourself a favor and download Adobe Reader 7 while it is still available from the Adobe folks as many digital books cannot be read through Adobe Professional 8 and/or the new "Digital Editions" website which Adobe will redirect you to if you try to open a book previously purchased. (I have three digital books purchased which would not open until I downloaded Adobe Reader 7.) ..... Also, for those wishing to combine PDFs, the fastest and easiest program is one called Combine PDF. It is free, but the author accepts donations. Google it or go to monkeybreadsoftware.de. And finally, if you upgraded to Leopard, some of the functions of Adobe 8 Professional will not work until Adobe updates sometime in January 2008; no updates for Adobe 7 Professional are in the works.
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 Sweet compression essential! Oct 30, 2007
Now! Make anything into a pdf and edit it like a wizard!
I use it to create a magazine... flawlessly. Too many "graphic artists" don't know their basics: this at least fixes a lot of glitches before it hits press or the web.
Nicely makes editing pdfs easy. A LOT of tricks for a pro!
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 Primative "combine files" tool, Sep 24, 2007
I like how this version previews the documents, shows a loading bar in the lower window. Good updates and support for graphics card rendering (which i can't "tell" but it is a smooth and nice to view and edit PDFs. My first complaint is with the Combine Files window, which got some fixes in the 8.0 to 8.1 update, but I would rather the added files are listed in alpha-numeric order rather than the apparently random order they list themselves in now. I also when you load a batch of pdfs to be combined they are all all selected - to deselect them, you have to make the window bigger and find blank space below the last file and click on that blank space, clicking on one selected file does not deselect all of them and select the one you click like you would think it should. I want to drag around the files to reorder them, i don't want to select one at a time and click Move Up or Move Down to re-order the list. I am happy with the end file size, I am happy with the program speed, I am happy that Control-Shift-W works. I think Adobe needs a feedback tool like apple's feedback tool for apple products, very clean and logical. I would rather tell them my problems with the product. I also with that the PDF Printer got updated to 8.1 when the rest of the program did, the adobe supplied pdf printer still shows 8.0 (this is somewhat psychological but no less important).
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