Adobe Readies Acrobat 7.0

15 Nov, 2004 at 10:54pm ET Article published in Tech

Adobe Systems by the end of the year will release version 7.0 of its Acrobat products, including a new free Acrobat Reader that now includes reviewing capabilities, the company plans to announce this week.

With the updates, San Jose, California-based Adobe is underscoring its focus on workgroups and document management. The client products all tie in to the company’s Intelligent Document Platform, a set of elements Adobe wants to use to make PDF (Portable Document Format) with XML (Extensible Markup Language) additions a common way to get data in and out of enterprise systems. Acrobat 7.0 Professional users can create PDF files and allow those to be reviewed and commented on by Acrobat Reader 7.0 users. The reader features a new reviewing toolbar that can be enabled when the PDF file is created in Acrobat Professional, according to Adobe. Included with Acrobat 7.0 Professional is Adobe LiveCycle Designer, a tool to design PDF forms that work with back-end enterprise systems using XML. These special forms allow organizations to automatically process data sent in PDF forms, so there’s no need to re-enter the information into their own back-end systems. Adobe’s Intelligent Document Platform goes up against Microsoft’s XML plans for Office and InfoPath and competes with products from several smaller vendors.

Source: PC World

Comments

15 Nov 2004 ~ 11:05pm Sputnik the real question is, can they do the impossible and make it even slower the the current Acrobat?
15 Nov 2004 ~ 11:22pm KingFish Good point Sputnik. When I prep a pc for deployment in our office, I use vers 5 because it's stable and starts up a lot quicker than vers 6. I think vers 6 was quite bloated myself. We'll have to see when we get our hands on it. I may stick with deploying vers 5 unless vers 7 can offer a better performance benefit than vers 6.
15 Nov 2004 ~ 11:37pm Cyclonite I've had a few issues with those that were still on ver 5 in my office. We ended up upgrading them to 6 and installing all new systems with 6. Unfortauntely, it IS much slower. *Sigh*
15 Nov 2004 ~ 11:49pm mmonnin I hate how long it takes to view one of their damn pages as well.
16 Nov 2004 ~ 2:57am BlackHawk Adobe Reader SpeedUp. Works like a charm.
30 Nov 2004 ~ 2:52pm madmom Has anyone experienced slowness in OTHER applications (like Word) after installing Acrobat 6? We are using the standard version.
30 Nov 2004 ~ 2:56pm Thrax I haven't.