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Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard

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Most designers use Adobe Acrobat to send magazine articles, news, fillable

forms and other such docs through mail. This helps to publish these docs on the

Web without any loss of information or style. Adobe has recently launched

Acrobat 9 Standard with a lot more features and modifications. You can say it

creates a print-ready document format instead of Portable Document Format as the

PDF is generated at up to 600 dpi resolution. Another great feature is that this

version lets you incorporate multimedia within a PDF. So, you can watch a video

clip within the PDF. You can open a PDF file like a web page and click on the

multimedia item to play. This starts the embedded Flash movie, without requiring

you to install or open any movie player like Windows Media Player or VLC Media

Player.

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Other features of the software include capturing web pages containing Flash

movies to make PDF formats for printing or sharing PDFs using the Web capture

facility. The PDF files are clear and sharper than before because the new

version supports scanning as well as Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

technology. When you scan a page in the earlier versions of Acrobat, they only

create an image of that page. There is no provision for text modification.

Acrobat 9 allows you to scan an image containing text and creates a PDF, where

you can edit text. The OCR technology eases the task of searching the desired

sentence or words. Similarly, it is easy to convert a PDF file to Word without

any change in formatting.

The new Form Wizard makes Word or Excel documents into PDF forms very quickly

and easily. These PDF forms can be used to fill in details electronically using

Adobe Reader. The Form Wizard creates forms from paper or electronic documents.

The Form Tracker will monitor the people who've filled a particular form and and

collect data electronically. After all forms are complete, you can easily export

the data to a spreadsheet for future reference.

Upgrading from Acrobat Standard version 8 to version 9 costs only $99. So,

this new version is best for existing users. They can include multimedia files

of their important meetings and seminars within a PDF file and send them to

different regional offices. This will cut traveling costs for meetings. It is

possible for viewers to put a note on the video as well. As the PDF document is

of high quality, ISO standard PDF/A setting, it can archived for longer periods

of time. As mentioned earlier, PDF/A setting (up to 600 dpi) is good for quality

printing also. You can also store and share these PDF files with anyone,

anywhere using Acrobat.com services.

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Price: Rs 17,104



Meant For:Designers


Key Specs: Improves form management, converts Web pages to high-res
PDFs



Pros: Capture Web pages with multimedia content and make print ready
PDFs



Cons: None


Contact: Adobe Systems, Noida,


Phone: 2444711


email: prsingh@adobe.com


SMS Buy 130293 to 56677






The PDF of pcquest.com home

page. The items encircled in red are animations from the Web page that play

on the PDF as well. This constitutes the new Web Capture feature.

Bottomline: Adobe has included Web pages as part of the

mix that can be converted to print-ready PDFs by enabling embedded video and

animation. The overall ease of use is also enhanced.

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