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 adobe acrobat 8, 2008-01-22
this is a very useful product for a law firm like us because we make forms and we interact with clients using safe passwords... so after making a wonderfully useful form, we emailed to client with a password to open so that they could fill it up and email back to us.... but our clients who had lower version/free version of adobe couldn't do that. they just had to print the form out and mail to us... which made this whole password business silly. do they have to buy this same product to do what we want to do?
9 of 10 customers found the following review helpful:
 By all means try before you buy!, 2007-11-22
I'm so glad that I installed a trial version of Acrobat 8 Professional prior to buying it. Luckily, I did not need to uninstall a working version of the product in order to install the trial version, unlike the previous reviewer. The program crashed at least a dozen times during my first hour of use, and I wasn't trying to do anything complicated. For example, the program simply disappeared without a trace when I pressed the Settings button during a Save as... dialog or attempted to Edit -> Preferences for HTML export.
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Great must-have product, 2007-10-19
Creating a pdf from any other format is almost a must capabiity, however I was a bit disappointed Adobe imbedded itself everywhere. Good from a usability standpoint, but ask me first if I want to do that. In all, no problems with the product, in installation or use.
Window Media Center, Gateway laptop w/ AMD Turion64 & 1 gig RAM.
28 of 28 customers found the following review helpful:
FUBAR, 2007-10-12
Software that repeatedly crashes and requires multiple reloadings deserves NO STARS, but amazon does not allow that option, so this gets 1 star.
Having owned versions 4, 5, 6 and now 8, I've watched this product add features, and with them glitches. Would it be a great product if it worked? Yes. Unfortunately, it crashes, and crashes and crashes.
Adobe has already issued two update fixes, but still it crashes.
Not good.
UPDATE: Since writing the above, I have purchased a new HP desktop and Acrobat generally works on it. The major exceptions are the actions listed under the Document tab, especially Reduce File Size, which simply crashes as soon as you click on it. For anyone who stores large files, this is a significant defect.
My old computer (a Gateway) was about five years old. Both computers run on Windows XP, so the operating system is not the cause of the crashes.
2nd UPDATE: Today [02/06/08] Adobe released Ver. 8.1.2. It's still screwed up.
3rd UPDATE 02/23/08: There is an alternative on the horizon, PDF Converter Professional 5.0 by Nuance Communications, which sells OmniPage 16 Professional. Nuance has an ugly history of selling software before its time (i.e., using early purchasers as beta sites), but it's the only real alternative I've been able to find. There are other shareware programs, but they don't have the functionality of Adobe Acrobat 8.
UPDATE #4 02/26/08: Well, it looks like PDF Converter Professional 5 also lacks the functionality of Adobe Acrobat 8. I went to Nuance's website and downloaded the new version, only to find that it lacks support for scanners. (This is strange because Nuance's flagship product, Omnipage, does include support for scanners.) It does, however, include features for inserting, extracting, replacing, deleting, cropping and rotating pages, which I had been having trouble with in Adobe. In its promotional materials, Nuance claims that it will create headers and footers, but I see no evidence of that.
UPDATE #5 07/28/08: This will be my final update, since Adobe has released Adobe Acrobat Professional 9. I bought a copy yesterday and have just begun using it. It seems not to suffer from the flaws that afflicted Acrobat 8, but we'll see.
The clear lesson of all of this is that Adobe releases poorly written and documented software, treating its customers as beta testers. Caveat Emptor.
1 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Money well spent, 2007-08-12
Very pleased with the software. Easy install, no system conflicts and all the added upgrades, wizards and gizmos makes this product much more than simply a PDF maker. I'm a skeptic with most things, but this time my expectations were surpassed.
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