Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional (Upgrade Edition) (PC)

The Acrobat 8 family helps users initiate, manage, and organize ad-hoc collaboration by creating and sharing content-rich documents; combining multiple files into a single, polished Adobe PDF document; managing and organizing feedback to expedite document collaboration; collecting and exchanging high- value information; and controlling document access with confidence.

The Acrobat family has been strengthened to help meet industry-specific requirements regarding information sharing. New tools allow users to permanently remove sensitive text, images, metadata, and other information in an Adobe PDF document. Converting complex, large-format documents into Adobe PDF is significantly faster, and industry-specific markup tools have been enhanced for easier use. New shared reviews streamline collaboration. Review initiators can enable users of free Adobe Reader 8 software to participate in shared reviews using intuitive Acrobat commenting tools. Collecting data from Adobe PDF forms is easy, as Adobe Reader 8 users can now electronically fill out, digitally sign, and locally save an electronic form and its data (when those capabilities have been enabled in Acrobat 8 Professional software and Acrobat 3D, Version 8.) And an enhanced interface lets users quickly choose the task or tool they need so they can get the job done even faster.

Acrobat 8 Professional
Acrobat 8 Professional includes a comprehensive set of tools for working with Adobe PDF. New and enhanced features make it easier than ever for workgroups and individuals in enterprises and industries such as Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) and legal to collaborate more efficiently and more securely share critical data. With high-value Adobe PDF document workflows, enterprises can help improve productivity, reduce costs, and speed development of products and services.

Take advantage of interface enhancements, including new customizable toolbars and a new Getting Started screen that visually directs users to the most-often used tasks and help sections.

Easily convert documents created in the widest array of authoring programs, including Microsoft Office applications, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Visio, and Autodesk AutoCAD into Adobe PDF files.

AutoCAD files can now be converted to Adobe PDF significantly faster and shared with any user of free Adobe Reader software for review and commenting.

Users can group related but separate documents together in a single Adobe PDF package, which makes it easier to add, extract, search, and browse only those files that are needed while also keeping digital signatures and security settings intact.

Comments added to a document in a shared review are automatically stored on virtually any file server, Web server, network directory, Microsoft SharePoint workspace or WebDAV server.

Reviewers can view and respond to comments as soon as the comments are available, which helps reduce redundancies and speed the review process. Turn on intuitive Acrobat review and commenting tools in Adobe Reader 8, enabling users of the free software to add comments to Adobe PDF files.

Adobe Reader 8 users can also fill out, digitally sign, and locally save Adobe PDF forms when enabled in Acrobat 8 Professional. Automatically add interactive form fields to static Adobe PDF and Microsoft Office files.

Aggregate forms automatically into an Adobe PDF package and export the data to a spreadsheet. Easily remove sensitive information, including metadata, from Adobe PDF documents.