New comparison features, not in Acrobat Standard, highlight the edits between versions of a document. Locking down PDFs can't get much more thorough, given the digital signatures and metadata removal also available. Responses can be sorted, filtered, and exported to spreadsheets.Īcrobat 9's security enhancements enable users to add 256-bit encryption, which online banks use, for PDFs. Potentially delighting conference planners, a forms-tracking dashboard will show, for example, the status of responses to a mass party invitation e-mail and let a user send reminders to guests. Geospatial mapping is cool in this update, but it's only available in the pricey Acrobat 9 Pro Standard.įor creating online forms, Acrobat 9 adds intelligence to recognize content for conversion to fillable fields. At least you can view the dynamic content, once Pro Extended users drop it into a PDF, within Acrobat Reader 9.

These creative options are cool for professionals, but we wish you didn't need to pay $699 to use them. In addition, architects and other designers using CAD software can embed 3D models within PDFs. Mapping features only in Acrobat Pro Extended 9 preserve geospatial coordinates and enable users to mark locations and measure distances. We were able to use this in Internet Explorer, but the command described by Adobe seemed to be missing from Firefox 2 or 3. Unfortunately, in a couple of cases Acrobat wouldn't let us add some Flash movies, and it didn't offer a solid explanation.Īcrobat 9 also will take snapshots of Web pages and convert entire pages or chunks of them to a PDF that preserves links and animation. We created PDF Portfolios without a snag in some experiments. Adobe also tried to make it easier for companies using Pro and Pro Extended to make pages match visually with themes and custom logos, and it improved tools for comparing documents. Myriad layout and presentation options include a flip-through view similar to Apple's Cover Flow for the iPhone. The new PDF Portfolios feature in Acrobat 9 lets users drag and drop content into a PDF bundle.

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