RSSAdobe Pushes New Acrobat 7 Line
By David Worthington | Published November 15, 2004, 4:43 PM
Adobe has announced version 7.0 of its Acrobat family of products. New capabilities permit workgroups to use Acrobat 7 and Adobe's PDF format to manage business activities including form building, assembling documents from multiple sources and secure collaboration on projects outside of firewalls. In addition, the free Acrobat Reader will now have integrated commenting tools. Adobe has also introduced a new content type for PDF: 3D computer-aided design (CAD). Acrobat 7 will ship before the end of the year with retail pricing starting at $299 USD.
I'm still using good old Acrobat Reader 4.05 optimized with Acrobat Speed-Up.
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|Amen to that!
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|2003 saw a lot of companies release screwed-up, bloated versions of their software, for which they lost revenue and new customers. I could name a dozen apps off the tip of my tongue and you can think of 3-4 without trying. Acrobat 7 seeks to get back on track after a disastrous 6.0 release in which Adobe stripped beloved features from version 5. From what I read at PlanetPDF.com, version 7 mainly enhances comments and speeds up start time. I'll buy it because we use it at my company, but my first impression is BIG DEAL. Not.
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|Acrobat Reader is total junk.
I know this is for the Full version of acrobat but I still hate the reader. I don't condone the user of either.
I wish people would quit using PDF as a standard. Even if you tweak the reader so it opens faster it's a joke. I think PDF is just one of the most annoying formats ever. Always have to install the dang reader. Bloatware anyone?
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|you don't need acrobat to create or view pdf files.
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|PDF Is just that, a standard. It's one of the few formats that allow formatted text, graphics and other stuff, not have to pay for a document viewer, is multiplatform, even down to PalmOS and Java implementations.
It's key feature, is it's guarenteed to look and print the same regardless of platform. That's a pretty good standard if you ask me...
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|We rely on Acrobat Reader, so we just preload it into the startup group, set to minimized, so the load-times don't mean much. Especially on a PIV 3.2 ghz machine, it's not a big deal. :)
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|Great ... the reader will now take 20 seconds to launch..
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|I agree. But you know, I've been using GSView and Ghostscript for PDFs. It's much faster, with about 1/10th of the features.. but then again, I only used about 1/20th of the features... so it works okay. If only it didn't nag, and had a browser plugin. :(
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|LOL! Yeah, I dread the time I have to fire that thing up.
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|I've seen the realease and used it. The start up is actually quicker than previous versions. Way quicker.
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