Adobe Acrobat 8 Bows In To Rave Reviews
Organizations Including Crate & Barrel, the IRS and the Wharton School Test Software for Communication and Collaboration Processes Beyond Simple PDF Creation.
SAN JOSE, CA, Nov. 2, 2006 - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Acrobat® 8 software amid an enthusiastic early reception from knowledge workers worldwide who for months have tested and provided feedback to help the company fine tune the product line.
Communicate and Collaborate
The new Acrobat 8 provides business professionals with innovative tools
for communicating and collaborating with confidence across the
boundaries of operating systems, applications and firewalls. With
Acrobat 8, users can now more effectively engage with the rich,
high-value information in PDF documents and forms, and more reliably
and securely drive their work to completion leveraging the ubiquitous,
free Adobe Reader® software.
Acrobat 8 builds on Adobe's heritage in the digital documents
business, and unveils a truly comprehensive set of capabilities for
working with PDF documents within a sleek, modern user experience. The
product line introduces several major innovations for professionals in
a wide variety of areas, such as architecture, engineering and
construction (AEC), IT, legal, marketing, manufacturing, and
publishing. Moving far beyond simple PDF creation, industry leaders
like Caterpillar Inc., Eaton Corporation, the Internal Revenue
Service, Quebecor World Inc., and others are testing Acrobat 8 to
improve communication and collaboration inside and outside their
organizations.
Acrobat 8, Force Multiplier
"Design and construction processes are notorious for being
inefficient and paper-intensive," said John Moebes, director of
Construction, Crate & Barrel. "With building costs growing at about 10
percent annually, we need tools like Acrobat 8 and PDF that act as
force multipliers, enabling one person to do a job that previously
might require several people. For instance, with advances in Acrobat
8, many design and construction documents can now be combined into a
single, more secure PDF package and delivered in seconds nationwide to
project teams that can review, comment on and digitally sign materials
simply using Adobe Reader."
Other innovative organizations are realizing equally impressive
benefits, leveraging the versatility of Acrobat and PDF to implement
solutions tailored to their specific business needs. Successful law
firms like Dallas-based Cowles & Thompson and The Veen Firm of San
Francisco rely daily on Acrobat to streamline capturing, reviewing and
assembling case documents, while students at the world-renowned
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania now collaborate more
easily with each other and faculty using PDF documents. For creative
services providers, including industry leader Capps, Acrobat is
especially vital, accelerating design review cycles and helping ensure
more reliable printing.
Free Trial Version of Connect
Adobe today also announced the immediate availability of a free
trial of the Adobe Acrobat® Connect™ hosted service, the first
web conferencing and collaboration solution to offer "always-on"
personal meeting rooms. Acrobat Connect enables knowledge workers to
instantly connect online with nothing more than a web browser and the
ubiquitous Adobe Flash® Player software. Together with Acrobat 8,
the newly expanded Acrobat family accelerates the flow of business by
allowing people to easily work together in real-time.
The Acrobat family consists of Acrobat 8 Professional, Acrobat 8
Standard, Acrobat 8 Elements, Acrobat 3D Version 8, Acrobat Connect,
and Acrobat Connect Professional.
Pricing and Availability
Acrobat 8 Professional for Microsoft® Windows® and Mac OS X,
and Acrobat 8 Standard for Windows, are immediately available in
English, French, German, and Japanese language versions. The Mac OS X
version of Acrobat 8 Professional is a Universal Binary that will
install on Intel® and PowerPC® based Macintosh systems. Acrobat 8
Professional is available for an estimated street price of US$449, and
registered users of qualifying earlier versions of Acrobat(1) can
upgrade to Acrobat 8 Professional for an estimated street price of
US$159. Acrobat 8 Standard is available for an estimated street price
of US$299, and registered users of qualifying earlier versions of
Acrobat(2) can upgrade to Acrobat 8 Standard for an estimated street
price of US$99. Additionally, Adobe Reader 8 is expected to be
available in early December 2006.
The Acrobat Connect hosted service is immediately available as a
free trial through the end of the current calendar year. The trial can
be accessed via the "Start Meeting" button in Acrobat 8 and Adobe
Reader 8, and directly at www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnect. The
commercial release of Acrobat Connect, initially in English, is
expected to be available in January 2007 for a subscription price of
US$39 per month, or US$395 per year per personal meeting room.
Adobe Creative Suite® 2.3 Premium software, which includes
Acrobat 8 Professional and also bundles Dreamweaver® 8 software, is
expected to be available on Nov. 8, 2006.
More information on the Acrobat family, including Acrobat 3D
Version 8, Acrobat 8 Elements, and Acrobat Connect Professional, is
available online. Customers in North America
can also call 1-800-833-6687.
Adobe Systems Incorporated revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium.
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1 Acrobat 5.0, Acrobat 6.0 Standard, Acrobat 6.0 Professional, Acrobat 7.0 Standard, Acrobat 7.0 Professional
2 Acrobat 5.0, Acrobat 6.0 Standard, Acrobat 7.0 Standard
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