Software Review – Adobe Master Collection - Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional From Adobe Systems - Page 2

• Collaboration – will allow you to accelerate feedback and approvals by giving you the tools for initiating, managing, and tracking document reviews. Reviewers can use sticky notes, stamps, highlighters, pencil strokes, strikethrough and other familiar tools. You can even merge the feedback into a single PDF file.

• Auto-recognize form fields – Automatically locate form fields in static PDF documents and convert them into interactive fields that can be filled electronically by anyone using Adobe Reader software (version 7 or 8).

• Permanently remove sensitive information – allows you to remove metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and use redaction tools to permanently delete the sensitive text.

• Archive Microsoft Outlook e-mail in PDF – format. Configure Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional to archive email in Microsoft Outlook for easy search and retrieval.

• Archive Lotus Notes e-mail in PDF – format. This allows you to convert email in Lotus Notes for easy search and retrieval.

• New user interface – that includes customizable toolbars and a getting started page that visually steps you through commonly used features.

Maybe the best feature in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional is the ability to combine, as opposed to merge, so many different files in to one package. This way you can send them around such that each one can be saved independently.

The other feature that I found has a lot of potential in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional is the enhancements for data collection using Adobe PDF forms. This feature includes a wizard for creating forms from templates, existing electronic documents, paper forms, and other data forms.

Adobe Acrobat has always been the standard for creating PDF documents. It is now the standard for creating secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection. With the ability to collaborate on documents by using e-mail, collect data via forms and new stronger security it is now taken to a new level.

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