Adobe Acrobat Pro 7 .0

When Acrobat Pro was first launched, Adobe had high hopes that the Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) would become the universal computer exchange standard and herald the advent of the paperless office. As it turned out the rise of Microsoft Office and the Internet put an end to that dream, but Adobe never gave up on its office-based aspirations. With this version and its central role in Adobe's "Intelligent Document Platform", Acrobat Pro 7.0, focused on advanced workflows, makes its most determined bid yet to put Acrobat technology back at the heart of office-based workflows. The secret of Acrobat's success lies in the freely available and ubiquitous Adobe Reader program, but to take advantage of it you need one of the paid-for Acrobat 7.0 applications - Elements, Standard or Professional - to create your PDFs in the first place. Key to this, though usually working behind the scenes behind the convenient "Adobe PDF" print driver, is Acrobat Distiller. It's this essential utility which takes a PostScript-based print-to-disk file from any application and converts it to PDF as an exact electronic replica. Distiller has now been updated to version Pro 7, complete with support for Acrobat 7's new PDF 1.6 format and a new proposed ISO standard, PDF/A, intended for the archiving of electronic documents. Otherwise there's relatively little that's new other than a largely cosmetic revamp. Distiller remains central to the universality of Acrobat Pro, but for the most important office applications, ie the Microsoft Office applications, Adobe extends Distiller with its PDFMaker capability. This offers one-click PDF authoring direct from the application along with support for extra functionality, such as bookmarks and live hyperlinks within converted Word documents. With each release Acrobat tends to improve its integration with the Microsoft apps and version 7 Professional is no exception with the new ability to convert Publisher publications and multiple Access reports.

Requirements:	No special requirements
Release Date:	October 22, 2012
Platforms:	Win2000,WinXP
Users rating:	0/10