Adobe has just unleashed a new online platform containing a word processor, file storage and sharing, both tied together with a Flash-enabled Acrobat 9.The free Acrobat.com beta includes the Buzzword word processor. Its ConnectNow Web conferencing and desktop sharing tool enables chatting via text, video, and voice. The hosted services invite file storage and sharing with the capability to convert up to five documents to PDF.
Users of Acrobat.com can join each other in virtual rooms, and all those in the room have access to the same document. This is a great feature for virtual meetings, paper editing, and much more.
Acrobat 9 will include many features aided by the integration of Flash. Some of these features include animation integration and dynamic maps.
For creating online forms, Acrobat 9 adds intelligence to recognize content for conversion to fillable fields. And a forms tracking dashboard will show, for instance, the status of responses to a mass party invitation e-mail and let a user send reminders to guests. Responses can be sorted, filtered, and exported to spreadsheets.
With this Acrobat facelift, we can also expect a speedier environment. Everyone has had the 'PDF opening blues', which is hoped to be eliminated with Acrobat 9.
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There is 64-bit support
Yes, Acrobat continues to be a 32-bit application that can run and has been tested on Microsoft® Windows Vista® 64-bit, Windows XP 64-bit, and Windows Server® 2003 64-bit.
Last edited by niki_bl on 02 Jun 2008 - 16:26
There is 64-bit support
Yes, Acrobat continues to be a 32-bit application that can run and has been tested on Microsoft® Windows Vista® 64-bit, Windows XP 64-bit, and Windows Server® 2003 64-bit.
I think he's referring to there being no NATIVE 64bit support. Quite why this is such a big deal, I do not know.
And if acrobat/flash were standalone apps on their own, I wouldn't mind them being 32-bit, the same way I dont mind MOST of the apps today being 32-bit. But neither flash nor acrobat plugin will run on 64-bit browsers and that's a huge drawback.
And if acrobat/flash were standalone apps on their own, I wouldn't mind them being 32-bit, the same way I dont mind MOST of the apps today being 32-bit. But neither flash nor acrobat plugin will run on 64-bit browsers and that's a huge drawback.
And the benefit of a 64bit browser is....?
Dunno about there, there's always the good ol' .txt ;P
They do? They have? What's that then?
They do? They have? What's that then?
They do? They have? What's that then?
It's when you're happily browsing the web, click a link and THEN realise it was to a PDF. Cue a solid 5-10min wait while your browser attempts to load the adobe reader plugin, just so you can close the tab.
Any attempt to close it early, so you can get back to good ol' web browsing, results in you shutting down your browser because windows thinks it's hung.
It's why I use foxit reader instead.
They do? They have? What's that then?
But wasn't that about Acrobat 9 which isn't just a reader, not a new version of Adobe Reader (I can't see Reader 9 even being released yet)? That's what confused me a bit, at least. I thought they meant opening stuff in Acrobat itself. But maybe Reader is part of that package too, I can't say I remember.
They do? They have? What's that then?
A lot of the delay is due to loading squillions of plugins that are almost never required. There are (were?) a couple of freeware apps kicking around (PDF Speedup is one I think) that let you disable these selectively. I got Acrobat 7's startup time down to a couple of seconds using one of these, and never came across a document I couldn't open with the plugins removed.
I've hardly used Acrobat since I went Linux, anyway: KPDF is much faster and I haven't had a compatibility issue yet.
However, if you create or import your existing documents into Buzzword, you can export them as PDF unlimited times, I believe. Just use the Document -> Export menu.
Adobe has become huge bloat, starting with version 6 and above.
Adobe has become huge bloat, starting with version 6 and above.
+1
Yep, I also use FoxIT. Got tired of all the adobe updates, startup programs, and that bloated piece of software that adobe put out.
Adobe has become huge bloat, starting with version 6 and above.
v9 is different, trust me
Looks like it. There are lots of these online office suites now. I'm not sure if anyone's using them, or why they'd want to.
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