Most designers use Adobe Acrobat to send articles, news, fillable forms and other such docs through mail. This helps to publish these docs on the Web without any loss of information or style. Adobe has recently launched Acrobat 9 Standard with a lot more features and modifications. You can say it creates a print-ready document format instead of Portable Document Format as the PDF is generated at up to 600 dpi resolution. Another great feature is that this version lets you incorporate multimedia within a PDE So. you can watch a video clip within the PDE You can open a PDF file like a web page and click on the multimedia item to play. This starts the embedded Flash movie. without requiring you to install or open any movie player like Windows Media Player or VLC Media Player.
Other features of the software include capturing web pages containing Flash movies to make PDF formats for printing or sharing PDFs using the Web capture facility. The PDF files are clear and sharper than before because the new version supports scanning as well as Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. When you scan a page in the earlier versions of Acrobat. they only create an image of that page. There is no provision for text modification. Acrobat 9 allows you to scan an image containing text and creates a PDE where you can edit text. The OCR technology eases the task of searching the desired sentence or words. Similarly. itis easy to convert a PDF file to Word without any change in formatting.
The new Form Wizard makes Word or Excel documents into PDF forms very quickly and easily. These PDF forms can be used to fill in details electronically using Adobe Reader. The Form Wizard creates forms from paper or electronic documents. The Form Tracker will monitor the people who've filled a particular form and and collect data electronically. After all forms are complete, you can easily export the data to a spreadŽsheet for future reference.
Upgrading from Acrobat Standard version 8 to version 9. So. this new version is best for existing users. They can include multimedia files of their important meetings and seminars within a PDF file and send them to different regional offices. This will cut traveling costs for meetings. It is possible for viewers to put a note on the video as well. As the PDF document is of high quality. ISO standard PDF/ A setting, it can archived for longer periods of time. As mentioned earlier. PDF/ A setting (up to 600 dpi) is good for quality printing also. You can also store and share these PDF files with anyone, anywhere using Acrobat.com services.




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