Adobe Acrobat Professional


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.

Why is it important to understand Acrobat Professional features?

At some point, an author may require Acrobat Professional in order to create and enable a PDF document with certain usage rights so that Adobe Reader users can collaborate and take full advantage of all of the features available in Reader. For example, an attorney may want to solicit comments on a draft document from colleagues who use the free Adobe Reader software. The attorney would use Acrobat Professional to enable a PDF with usage rights that give Adobe Reader users options for adding comments to a PDF document. The attorney would need Acrobat Professional to add the functionality to the PDF, but all the other users would need only Adobe Reader to participate in a review. Keep in mind that at least one installation of Acrobat Professional needs to be present in a work environment to create files for the Adobe Reader users.




    Adobe Reader 7 Revealed. Working Effectively with Acrobat PDF Files
    Adobe Reader 7 Revealed: Working Effectively with Acrobat PDF Files
    ISBN: 0321305310
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 168
    Authors: Ted Padova

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