Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional Upgrade [Old Version]
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Software Reviews of Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional Upgrade [Old Version]

Customer Review: Nice, only for the refined search function....bye indexing..
Summary: 2 Stars

I have some issues with Adobe's/Acrobat's all over the map development. One minute its for maintaining a documents integrity, the next its for collaborative review of documents. Then its for printing professionals to deliver burnable files to printing agencies....

Great product but all over the map as far as how Adobe is developing it.

I'm currently involved in a project using Acrobat in creating legal documents for an impending trial. We use Acrobat HEAVILY to say the least. And I can honestly say that Adobe needs to work on a few upgrade items to make it suitable for business needs. A much more lucrative market in the long run.

1. Extractable Bookmarks: It is such a pain to extract pages and have to recreate the bookmark structure manually all over again. When you've done this for the millionth time you are pretty much convinced its a function inexcusably lacking. BTW-this upgrade does not provide the feature.

2. Printing of a documents page structure in relation to bookmarks: It would be wonderful to print or view the bookmarks in relation to the pages they map to. This would verify a logical chronology within the document vs having to literally click each bookmark to verify its link. They provide mapping views in programs like Dreamweaver or <gasp> Frontpage. This seem like such a no brainer to include in Acrobat.

3. Extraction of groups of documents that are not synchronus. Currently you can only extract documents that are in order. This makes for very slow going when it comes to compilling and arranging "unique" new documents.

The paperless office is a long way away and Adobe made a wonderful step in that direction when it created Acrobat. However their development path has become a comedy of immediate gratification errors. They have the awesome interface, have made it astonishly simple to use....but why has no one from Adobe made an effort to approach industries, businesses, et al to research what their document needs are.? I somehow bet that Adobe is paying some idiot analyst research firm to confirm their (presupposed) notion that Acrobat is best used in the realm of the print professional vs the business environment at large. Short sighted needs being met vs mirroring the inspired leap that made Acrobat truly unique in the first place.

If you are going to bloat out Acrobat why not make it a word processing, layout program suited for business. Maintaining document integrity yet creating a defacto standard when it comes to a truely editable, searchable, PAPERLESS office.

Adobe gets some of the picture but they have fallen sadly short over the past few years. Once visionaries they are now satisfied attending Sybold and thinking that everyone out here is a graphics geek professional. No overt attempts at creating a product that rivals the unique and forward thinking paradim shift that Acrobat could have been developed into. They are now a corporate mill, set on satisfying stock holders and content to reap rewards in roulette wheel fashion. Meanwhile ignoring what compelled them to be unique and revolutionary in the first place.

Final Analysis? Better interface, searchable Bookmarks. But wait before you buy, 6.5 may be the version to hold out for. If you currently own 5.0 it'll be fine til the fixes for 6.0 start cropping up!

Description of Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional Upgrade [Old Version]

Combine multiple documents?including large-format technical drawings and page layouts?into one compact Adobe PDF file in a single step. Automatically initiate and manage document reviews using intuitive electronic tools. Create forms that can be exchanged with colleagues and customers, and archive your project files as searchable Adobe PDF files.

View, navigate, and comment on large-format documents with tools that eliminate the need for paper-based reviews, making it faster and easier to meet critical deadlines. Streamline proofing cycles with robust tools that let you automatically track, manage, and incorporate electronic feedback. View detailed artwork or large-format documents with intuitive navigation tools. Output PDF/X-compliant files, and help eliminate surprises at the printer by preflighting files and previewing and printing color separations.

Note: This is an upgrade version.

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