Announcing Adobe Reader X


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Announcing Adobe Reader X

Today Adobe is announcing the new Acrobat X Family of Products which includes Adobe Reader X as well as Acrobat X Suite, Acrobat X Pro, and Acrobat X Standard. Reader X will be available for download next month and we want to give you a preview of the valuable new features you can expect.

Reader X continues to set the standard for reliably viewing, printing, and commenting on PDF documents. Plus it’s the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and multimedia. Building on this strong foundation, we’ve added new features in Reader X to help teams be more innovative and productive in their work. Some of these new features include the ability to:

  • View and interact with PDF files that contain an even wider variety of content types, including drawings, email messages, spreadsheets, videos, and other multimedia elements.
  • Make notes and share your feedback with others by marking up PDF documents using the Sticky Notes and Highlighter tools.
  • Choose reading mode to fit more content on the screen or two-up mode to view page spreads. Use keyboard shortcuts like print, zoom, and find within the browser.
  • Take advantage of the added security of Protected Mode in Reader, which helps ensure safer viewing of PDF files.
  • Directly access online services at Acrobat.com from within Reader X. Perform common tasks such as creating PDF files, securely sharing and storing documents, and screen-sharing.
  • Expanded PDF access via mobile devices with free Adobe Reader for Android, Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry Tablet OS

To learn more about the new features in Acrobat X and pre-order, check out the new site on Adobe.com. Stay tuned for an announcement about where you can download the new Reader X next month!

Source: Adobe Reader Blog

View: Adobe Acrobat website

Adobe Reader X?? Calling it 'Adobe Reader 10' would have been too easy I suppose.

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Then they'll do Adobe Reader XI, like with Paint Shop Pro. *cringe*

(btw, dear Steve Jobs -- don't even think the thought!)

I wonder if they made the Adobe Reader application size 90% smaller and took out its support to execute code from PDF documents? That could be worth upgrading it.

I'll stick with Foxit. Nothing wrong with Acrobat, but Adobe Updater drives me up the wall.

I'll go along with that, plus the plain bloat of Adobe stinks too. Even disabling their update feature will still get you pop ups.

I have to have Adobe Reader installed on wife's computer due to her stupid credit union. Personally, I'd quit using that credit union just for that fact of NOT being able to use Foxit with their junk, but wife won't budge!

So what exactly is new?

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  • Choose reading mode to fit more content on the screen or two-up mode to view page spreads. Use keyboard shortcuts like print, zoom, and find within the browser.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">
  • Take advantage of the added security of Protected Mode in Reader, which helps ensure safer viewing of PDF files.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">
  • Directly access online services at Acrobat.com from within Reader X. Perform common tasks such as creating PDF files, securely sharing and storing documents, and screen-sharing.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">
  • Expanded PDF access via mobile devices with free Adobe Reader for Android, Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry Tablet OS

From the looks of it, they are looking more at adding features and less at making it smaller and less resource intensive. I'm not sure what happened however, they are just making a more and more bloated package anymore with the Acrobat products.

Maybe they should give their applications a native interface for a change. Thank God I don't need any of that Acrobat crap because of Mac OS X' build-in PDF support.

That is one thing I would like in Windows, and am pretty envious of. Getting a Mac just for the built in PDF support really isn't worth it .... yet.

How many security holes will this POS have?

POS? It's still the PDF reader that renders documents with highest quality afaik. It's also very fast at rendering pages. Yeah, it has had some security holes, but other PDF readers have had that too, like Foxit. The upcoming Adobe Reader will have a "sandbox" mode, which should be safe if they do it right.

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