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Prices
You can get Adobe Acrobat X Professional at these prices if your organisation is an eligible school, nursery, administrative office, home school, government school, educational hospital, educational research establishment, etc.
You can get Adobe Acrobat X Professional at these prices if your organisation is an eligible charity or not-for-profit organisation.
This software is downloaded from an Adobe website.
Overview
Adobe’s new top-of-the-range Acrobat X Professional builds on Acrobat X Standard, which itself builds on Reader X. As such, Acrobat X Pro has all the advances of the whole range, such as the enhanced interface, Reading mode, SendNow integration and SharePoint support.
Like Standard, most of Acrobat X Pro’s features are accessed through the new Tools task pane. This makes it easier to find functions, and it also gives you a taste of just how much power Pro offers, with options covering everything from XML-based forms creation through to colour-separated commercial print.
Obviously Adobe had the misssion of packing in as much PDF-based power as possible into Acrobat X Professional. To make it easier for you to access this and use this power, seven preset actions cover such common tasks as archiving paper documents and preparing for web distribution. For example, if you click on the Publish Sensitive Document wizard it walks you through marking up the document for redaction (a Pro-only feature), removing any hidden information, and general optimisation of the file.
It is also simple to edit existing actions as well as create your own from scratch.
Acrobat X Pro isn’t just intended to let you do more with your PDFs; its main function is to enable others to get more out of the PDFs you produce. Key to this, and perhaps the program’s greatest strength, is its ability to unlock power in the free Reader X to enable anyone to fill in forms and digitally sign documents. The biggest advance is in unlocking all commenting capabilities in Reader X’s Comments pane, so anyone can participate in a shared review.
As well as making the Reader program richer, Acrobat X Pro users can add content such as maps and 3D to their PDFs.
More useful is Acrobat X Pro’s ability to add audio, video and interactive content to bring your static paper-based publications to life. If this is a major part of your workflow, you may be interested in upgrading to Adobe’s new Acrobat Suite. Alongside Acrobat X Pro and Photoshop, this includes the latest versions of Captivate, Presenter and Media Encoder for creating Flash-based content to incorporate into your PDFs.
When it comes to presentation of PDFs, Adobe is well aware that just emailing a bunch of disparate PDFs, perhaps with a couple of original files and web links, doesn’t exactly create a great first impression. Simply merging them into a single PDF is hardly better. This is where Adobe’s concept of the PDF Portfolio comes in, acting as a professional, interactive front-end from which end users can load each of the separate components. You should find Acrobat X Pro’s portfolio handling is simpler and stronger than that in Acrobat version 9.
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