Acrobat 8.0 Professional
Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional software is the advanced way to create, control, and deliver more secure, high-quality Adobe PDF documents. Assemble electronic or paper files -- even Web sites, engineering drawings, and e-mail -- into reliable PDF documents that are easy to share with others using free Adobe Reader
software.
Create and reliably exchange content-rich documents:
- Easily create Adobe PDF documents
- Create Adobe PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Word, Excel,
and PowerPoint. Windows users can also create PDF documents with one-button ease
from Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, and AutoCAD.
- Scan to PDF with OCR
- Scan paper documents with OCR technology to create compact, searchable Adobe PDF documents.
- Create in PDF/A or PDF/X
- Create documents in PDF/A, the ISO standard for long-term archiving of electronic documents, or PDF/X, the ideal format for high-quality, professional printing.
Assemble multiple files into a single, polished
document:
- Combine and optimize 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.
- Maintain individual file security settings
- Maintain individual digital signatures and security settings in PDF files and forms when combining them into a single PDF package.
- Include only the pages you need
- Specify which pages, layouts, or sheets should be included from source files in your final, combined Adobe PDF document.
- Optimize Adobe PDF output
- Select from multiple file size and quality settings to optimize PDF output for your intended purpose.
- Quickly regenerate a combined PDF file
- Re-create a combined Adobe PDF document after revising source files, without having to locate and gather the native files again.
- Unify with headers, footers, and watermarks
- Automatically remove headers and footers from source files and add unifying headers, footers, or watermarks to your combined Adobe PDF document.
- Attach native files
- Share source files by attaching them to your Adobe PDF document in their original, native formats.
Collect and manage review feedback:
- Conduct e-mail–based reviews
- Initiate a document review in Adobe PDF via e-mail. Merge inbound comments and markups from all reviewers into one PDF document with a single click.
- Manage shared reviews
- Easily conduct shared reviews — without IT assistance — that allow review participants to see one another's comments and track the status of the review.
- Enable collaboration tools in Adobe Reader
- Enable users of free Adobe Reader software* to participate in e-mail– or server-based reviews using all of the commenting and markup tools in Acrobat 8 Professional, including notes, stamps, highlighter, pencil, lines, shapes, and more.
- Track reviews and manage comments
- Track which reviewers have contributed feedback, send reminders, and add new participants. Easily compile all comments into a single Adobe PDF document.
- View and print comments
- View and print feedback for easy reconciliation. Sort comments by author, date, or page. Search comments for words or phrases.
- Export comments to Word or AutoCAD
- Select and export comments back to your original Word or AutoCAD file. Comments appear in Word as tracked changes and in AutoCAD as a separate layer.
Streamline data collection with Adobe PDF forms:
- Easily create forms
- Create fillable forms for distribution by e-mail or on the web from scanned paper, PDF documents, Microsoft Word documents, or Excel spreadsheets.
- Auto-recognize form fields
- Automatically locate form fields in static PDF documents and convert them to interactive fields that can be filled electronically by anyone using free Adobe Reader software*.
- Optimize form workflow
- Easily distribute forms; combine collected forms into a searchable, sortable PDF package; and export collected data into a spreadsheet.
- Enable form features in Adobe Reader
- Enable users of Adobe Reader software* to type information directly into Adobe PDF forms and save them locally for offline use.†
Apply advanced document control and security:
- Apply passwords and assign permissions
- Restrict access to Adobe PDF documents using 128-bit encryption. Set document permissions to help restrict who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.
- Sign documents digitally
- Apply digital signatures to authenticate documents, manage their status, and help protect against unauthorized modification.
- Enable digital signatures in Adobe Reader
- Enable Adobe Reader users* to digitally sign PDF documents.
- Remove hidden data
- Inspect Adobe PDF documents for metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and remove as needed.
- Permanently remove sensitive information
- Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive text, illustrations, or other information from the Adobe PDF document.
- Protect attached files
- Protect files attached to your Adobe PDF documents with 128-bit encryption.
Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional for Mac System Requirements:
- PowerPC G3, G4, G5, or Intel processors
- Mac OS X v.10.4.3
- 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended)
- 1,060MB of available hard-disk space
- 1,024x768 screen resolution
- DVD-ROM drive
*Requires Adobe Reader 7.0 or 8
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