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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
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Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
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Release Date: November 9, 2006
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 a good upgrade April 6, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
have been using acrobat since v3,v4,v6. v8 is in line. seems a bit faster, smoother etc. have tried imitations on other machines. from a purely subjective view, acrobat is best. a bit pricey, but the best. with the usual caveats, can be installed on a desktop and a notebook, but requires a call to tech support which was quick and smooth.
 The same awful experience. February 20, 2007
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
The "bad serial number" routine as the first reviewer. I'll try Adobe Customer Service when I stop fuming.
Maybe this will improve, but Quality Control for Adobe went down January 20, 2007
33 out of 37 found this review helpful
I use Adobe Acrobat Professional extensively both as an attorney and as a researcher/author. Because of the new features advertised which would enhance Acrobat storage of PowerPoint presentations, I bought it off the shelves at a local Staples office supply dealer. I am proficient at my own installations and expected no trouble on this. It acted like a virus. The program did not finish installing. Worse yet, it corrupted the underlying 7.0 installation and fixed that so the Windows Controller program could not install it. I had to hack through the registry to remove traces of it. Finally I got to a stage where it appeared to be going through the registry process again. Then I received the coup de grace -- a BAD SERIAL NUMBER MESSAGE. I checked carefully and it matched the serial number exactly as on the label sent by Adobe inside its factory package. I used MicroSoft OneNote to make a colored screen copy of this phenonema and marched the package back to Staples where they refunded my money. It's too bad about the 20 plus billable hours as a lawyer lost to this process. My experiences in calling Adobe in the past when I puzzled through a far lesser discourage me from wanting to talk to their technical support people (who too often know less than me given the increasingly apparent out-sourcing to people who read from a script and give us credit for knowing far less than we do). At any rate, I am now bitter. My 7.08 installation of Adobe worked great on my favorite computer where I had the bulk of my multimedia presentations which I hoped to reduce complete with sounds to the Adobe 8.0 format. I suspect that wrong serial numbers were slapped on the packages. I am deeply disappointed, even ANGRY at the inconvenience this has caused me. I took it home and tried it on my desktop there and it also would not complete the installation and ruined my chances of a clean uninstallation of 7.0. Deactivation of 7.0 could not take place either after installation of 8.0. I don't know what Adobe was thinking -- or if they were thinking. I have been a loyal customer of theirs for many years, but I'm thinking distinctly non-charitable thoughts about them this early morning. I hope they get their act together -- soon. They owe us all a quick fix and patch and they need DEEP REPENTANCE for the damage this did to Windows XP home installations which also appear to be corrupted in the process of installing this "upgrade" program which acts more like a computer worm or virus than a program.
Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0 January 5, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a major upgrade from previous versions . . . much easier to use and a much cleaner format.
Finally some good compression for scanned text/image November 14, 2006
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
I bought this package because I wanted good, high-compression universally accessible documents and images for my personal web page. (Google Werbos).
Finally, after zillions of googles on compression technology and trying many other things (see my other reviews), I found something that really, really works well, in a highly flexible and controllable way! What a relief! Much better than Acrobat 6.0, and other packages I have tried and reviewed.
The key capability lies in the "save as" command, which includes "optimized pdf" as one of the file types. The "settings" there gives you the power to choose JBIG2 and JPEG2000 compression, the very best formats for black and white or color scanned images or papers. And of course, as pdf, they are easy for anyone to read.
An example: two weeks ago, the world's top empirical nuclear physicist, in Japan, sent me a set of 24 1-meg JPEGs for a 24-page paper. Nothing I had would read it, except Microsoft Digital Image, which let me fix the pages and crop them; in Adobe 6.0, they ended up being a readable 14 meg document. No better. I printed it out at work, and scanned in the result at 400 dpi to a good modern copier/scanner. It ended up 5 megabytes. (The copier was modern and "intelligent".) Then, at home, in Adobe 6, it would
optimize it to pdf version 6, a nice 2.6 megabyte file. Today, I got it
to 940 K (and better quality, to the eye)in Acrobat 8.0, in a controllable
predictable way. I had previously tried many, many other options (including lots of Microsoft programs, all options).
If I understand what I have seen... I could have used Acrobat 8.0 DIRECTLY, without all that printout and scan nonsense! The direct control in the "save as" command gets rid of the need to do all that. What's more,
I just reduced a 3.5 meg file (from the best previous material) to 1.02 megs. (As best I recall, I used CVISION before and only got that file to 1.5-2 megs. Acrobat 8.0 seems to be doing much better.)
If you google a lot on compression and comparisons, you will see some small advantage of CVISION over older versions of Adobe Image Capture and Acrobat. But that's misleading. In Acrobat 6.0, I couldn't GET to that better compression. (Maybe if I had a PhD in Adobe, I could, but I tried hard..). With 8.0, it was easy. And the results are better than CVISION now, so far as I can tell. I certainly see no value at all in the new XPS formats Microsoft is touting, with Vista, now that something so much better is available.
One caveat: published benchmarks say that the DjVu format may be better yet. I did not consider it, partly because of cost, but more because everyone knows how to get the latest pdf reader but DjVu might stop people going to my web page. But if Google Books popularizes it, I might reconsider DjVu. But then again... knowing what lies behind DjVu.. we might figure out something even better... eventually... and maybe the future pdf standards will open to that!
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