Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional Extended (Win)

The Acrobat 9 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.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended includes:

• Adobe Presenter
• Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES
• Adobe 3D Reviewer
• Adobe 3D Capture Utility for UNIX

Ideal for business and technical professionals. Use Acrobat 9 Pro Extended to:

• Create Interactive Presentations - Use included Adobe Presenter software to liven up your slides with video, voice-over, demos, and interactive quizzes.
• Bring People and Ideas Together - Gather feedback, build consensus, and get everyone on the same page through interactive document reviews and real-time collaboration.
• Communicate with Impact - Include audio, video, images, 3D, and maps in your PDF documents for reliable cross-platform sharing.
• Help Protect Sensitive Information - Control access to and use of PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity.

FEATURES:

• Create interactive on-demand presentations with Adobe Presenter software.
• Combine multiple files in a single PDF Portfolio.
• Use professional templates for PDF Portfolios.
• Convert video to FLV for playback in PDF files.
• Enjoy support for 3D content and interactive PDF maps

MORE FEATURES:

Create and share PDF documents

• Easily share video in PDF - Convert a variety of video formats to FLV for reliable, cross-platform sharing of video, animations, and applications in PDF documents. With native support for Adobe Flash technology, no additional media player is necessary for playback.
• Create interactive, on-demand presentations - Use Adobe Presenter, included with Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, to liven up your Microsoft PowerPoint slides with video, voice-over, demos, and interactive quizzes, and then output to PDF for reliable, cross-platform sharing.
• Insert video in PDF - Embed video in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint and convert to FLV in PDF or insert FLV or H.264 video in PDF files for direct playback in Acrobat and Adobe Reader.
• Create PDF maps - Import geospatial files that retain metadata and coordinates to create PDF maps that can be searched, measured, and marked up with Acrobat or Adobe Reader. Discover the longitude and latitude by placing your cursor over a location. Measure PDF maps in real-world units.

Combine files from multiple applications

• Unify the widest range of content in a PDF Portfolio - Assemble documents, drawings, e-mail, spreadsheets, and rich media -- including audio, video, 3D, and maps -- in a single, compressed PDF Portfolio.
• Use professionally designed templates - Choose one of many professional templates to quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to your PDF Portfolio. Add your logo and include descriptions to guide recipients through the contents.
• Include only the pages you need - Specify which pages, layouts, or sheets should be included from source files in your final, merged PDF file or PDF Portfolio.
• Quickly regenerate a PDF Portfolio - Re-create a PDF Portfolio after revising source files, without having to locate and gather the native files again.

Protect and control sensitive information

• Help secure PDF documents - Help protect PDF documents with 256-bit encryption.
• Permanently remove sensitive information - Use redaction tools to black out sensitive text, illustrations, or other information, permanently deleting the content from the PDF document.
• Sign documents digitally - Apply digital signatures to authenticate documents, manage their status, and help protect against unauthorized modification.
• Help protect attached files - Help protect all the documents in your PDF Portfolio with 256-bit encryption.

Collaborate through shared document reviews

• Easily review video - Comment on video using any of the commenting and markup tools to add feedback to a specific frame.
• Easily track reviews - Use the Review Tracker to monitor progress and participation in shared reviews. View the status of reviewers, e-mail reviewers, send e-mail reminders, or invite additional participants to a review.
• Modify and end reviews - Use the Review Tracker to add and change review deadlines, end reviews, delete reviews, and start a new review with the same reviewers.
• Synchronize document views - Help colleagues, clients, and partners get on the same page at the same time with the ability to co-navigate documents. To provide clarity and enhance discussion, use Acrobat.com services to enable collaboration on a PDF file. Then distribute the PDF file and walk recipients through it in real time by controlling the page view they see.

Easily create forms and collect data

• Easily create and manage electronic forms - Use the new Form Wizard to convert Microsoft Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to fillable PDF forms.
• Get started with form templates - Take advantage of an existing library of common form templates, such as human resources forms, invoices, and expense reports.
• Create dynamic forms - Use Adobe LiveCycle Designer, a professional form design tool included with Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, to further customize and automate dynamic XML forms.
• Optimize form distribution - Easily distribute forms, combine collected forms in a single document or view for easy filtering and analysis, and export collected data in a spreadsheet * .

Collaborate in 3D

• Convert virtually any CAD file to a PDF document using templates - Convert designs from CAD applications such as CATIA V4 and V5, NX, I-DEAS, JT, SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, Autodesk Inventor, and many others to rich, interactive Adobe PDF documents to empower customers, suppliers, and co-workers to easily review, mark up, and interrogate designs. Leverage templates to communicate more clearly and effectively.
• Measure and cross-section on precise geometry - Generate dynamic cross-section views or measurements based on precise CAD model geometry. Call attention to parts or subassemblies so everyone fully understands the design details.
• Repurpose CAD design data to publish richer technical documentation - Quickly clean up CAD designs; create bills of materials; add and modify lighting, materials, or colors; create exploded views, balloons, and animations; and then save as PDF or 2D raster/vector images, creating richer and more interactive technical manuals without the need for an expensive CAD application.
• Generate mold parting lines and analyze draft angles quickly - Reduce the time it takes to design various types of molds by automating the calculation for core/cavity splitting. Use interactive mold analysis tools that automatically generate parting lines and parting direction. Easily calculate draft angles based on different manufacturing conditions.

Use Open Standards

• Create standards-compliant documents - Create documents in PDF/A, the ISO standard for long-term archiving of electronic documents; PDF/X, the ideal format for high-quality, professional printing; and PDF/E, the standard format for the reliable exchange of engineering documentation and drawings.
• Verify compliance with PDF standards - Get details on compliance of your documents with the new PDF Standards pane, which provides information on PDF/A, PDF/X, and PDF/E.
• Create and validate accessible PDF documents - Ensure your PDF documents are optimized for people with disabilities. Create accessible PDF documents from almost any source to help comply with standards. Quickly evaluate, correct, and automatically tag PDF documents for optimized accessibility and reflow.

* For ad hoc form distribution and data collection for up to 500 people.

Adobe Acrobat : Datasheet

Adobe Acrobat 9 Product Comparison

System Requirements

ACROBAT PROFESSIONAL FOR WINDOWS

• 1.3 GHz or faster processor
• Microsoft Windows XP Home, Professional, or Tablet PC Edition with Service Pack 2 or 3 (32-bit and 64-bit); Windows Server 2003 (with Service Pack 2 for 64-bit); or Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with or without Service Pack 1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Internet Explorer 6.0
• 512 MB of RAM
• 2.35 GB of available hard-disk space
• 1024 X 768 screen resolution
• DVD-ROM drive
• Video hardware acceleration (optional)

SUPPORTED UNIX PLATFORMS FOR ADOBE 3D CAPTURE UTILITY (OPTIONAL)

• Sun Solaris 2.8: UltraSPARC processor
• IBM AIX 5.2: POWER4 or PowerPC 604 processor
• SGI IRIX 6.5: RISC 5000 processor
• HP-UX 11.0: PA-RISC 2.0 processor
• UNIX Capture Utility: 200MB of available hard-disk space

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