Adobe Acrobat 7.0

Acrobat 7.0 Professional
Acrobat 7.0 Standard

Enterprises and large organizations such as manufacturers, financial institutions, and government agencies have invested heavily in automating structured, back-end enterprise systems and core business functions. But much of the gathering and sharing of business-critical information that keeps an organization running happens outside of and disconnected from core systems, in the manual, unstructured ways that people actually work-through paper, e-mail, and document-based processes. The Adobe Intelligent Document Platform provides a secure, flexible way to extend the power and reach of business-critical information inside and outside the firewall. The platform leverages the ubiquitous Adobe Reader software; Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), the defacto standard for electronic document exchange; and Adobe document services, which deliver desktop and server-based capabilities for creating, managing and integrating document-based processes. The Adobe Acrobat 7.0 software family, with new features designed to improve unstructured desktop (or peer-to-peer) workflows, extends Adobe document services to the broadest range of colleagues, customers, partners and suppliers for collaborative information gathering and sharing. Through enhanced integration with Adobe LiveCycle Server solutions and new connections to partner systems (PLM, ECM, ERP), the Acrobat 7.0 family can become an integrated part of an orchestrated process, acting as the hub between structured and unstructured workflows.

Primary benefits & users:Acrobat 7.0 Professional enables business, technical, and creative professionals to convert a wider variety of documents into Adobe PDF with the touch of a button and assemble them into one comprehensive Adobe PDF file for easy, secure sharing. Users can include anyone with free Adobe Reader 7.0 software in a document review cycle. Adobe Reader 7.0 users can then add comments to Adobe PDF files with intuitive Acrobat review and commenting tools. Feedback from multiple reviewers can be easily gathered, tracked, and managed. Performance and security enhancements help make sharing documents faster, easier, more secure, and more flexible.

Key features for business professionals: Marketing, sales, legal, finance, and human resources professionals can convert documents created in Microsoft Office programs, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Internet Explorer into Adobe PDF files with the touch of one button. Convert multiple reports from Microsoft Access and e-mail and message folders from Microsoft Outlook into Adobe PDF (Windows only). Turn on intuitive Acrobat review and commenting tools in Adobe Reader 7.0, enabling users of the free software to add comments to Adobe PDF files. With 128-bit encryption, Acrobat 7.0 Professional lets users easily restrict access to Adobe PDF files and prevent others from altering or printing a document. When integrated with Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server, Acrobat 7.0 Professional users can create a server-managed security policy and apply it in one step to an Adobe PDF document.

Key features for technical professionals: Engineering, architecture, and IT professionals can now create a single Adobe PDF from multiple layouts in Autodesk AutoCAD. Comments added to an Adobe PDF file can be imported back into AutoCAD documents as objects on a layer. The embedded scale of AutoCAD files 2 is retained when converted into Adobe PDF. Custom properties in Microsoft Visio files are preserved when converted into Adobe PDF. Acrobat 7.0 Professional now includes Adobe LiveCycle Designer, the professional form design tool from Adobe built to meet a wide range of business form requirements.

Key features for creative professionals: New tools provide production managers, service providers, and graphic designers advanced control over Adobe PDF files. Correct printing inks, adjust color spaces, fix stroke weight problems, and correct other potentially costly errors before an Adobe PDF print job goes to press. Adobe Reader 7.0 users included in a document review initiated in Acrobat 7.0 Professional can preview overprints in an Adobe PDF file, which also helps reduce print errors. Easily share preflighting results with service providers and clients by converting preflight results into Adobe PDF files.

Primary benefits & users:Acrobat 7.0 Standard provides business professionals with easy-to-use tools for creating, reviewing and exchanging Adobe PDF files. The document review management and commenting tools in Acrobat 7.0 Standard-combined with the strengths of Adobe PDF-help ensure more secure and reliable group review, commenting, and approval of business-critical documents. As a result, business professionals can work smarter and more productively, saving time and improving accuracy.

Key features: With the touch of one button, Acrobat 7.0 Standard users can convert content into Adobe PDF files from Microsoft Office applications and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Acrobat 7.0 Standard now allows users to convert Microsoft Outlook e-mail and message folders (Windows only). Quickly assemble multiple Adobe PDF files into one polished document for easy sharing and archiving, with pages arranged in the order chosen by the author. Easily combine and track comments from multiple reviewers. Restrict access to Adobe PDF files and prevent others from altering or printing a document. When integrated with Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server, Acrobat 7.0 Standard users can create flexible security policies and apply them in one step to an Adobe PDF document.