Adobe Acrobat Professional is the premiere Acrobat end-user product. You can purchase Acrobat Professional directly from Adobe Systems or from a software reseller. The full-featured program enables you to convert a variety of different file types to PDF, edit PDF documents, and save your edits. With Acrobat Professional you can create PDF forms and use a variety of print tools to print documents to commercial devices such as offset printers and prepress systems. In addition to using its many editing tools, you can also use Acrobat Professional to enable a PDF document with usage rights, allowing Adobe Reader users to comment on and mark up documents. Figure 2.1 shows the number of tools available in Acrobat Professional when all the toolbars are in view. Figure 2.1. Acrobat Professional contains many tools for editing PDF documents.If you work in a company where PDFs are widely used, you need to have one or more copies of Adobe Acrobat Professional installed for users who author documents and enable usage rights. Depending on your needs and the number of PDF authors, you may find that only a handful of users actually need the Acrobat Professional software, while the remaining users in your company can comfortably use the Adobe Reader software.
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