Adobe's arrival of Acrobat X Solutions

By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 04:06 IST
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Banagalore:Adobe Systems announced the arrival of Adobe Acrobat X Solutions.According to the press release Acrobat X Solutions provides users an automate routine, multi-step tasks and easily share them with coworkers and collaborators, reducing the burden of training. With the new layouts, visual themes and color palettes in PDF Portfolios, business professionals can change how users view, think and interact with content and its context. With the new Acrobat X Suite, users can maximize the power of Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Acrobat to capture, edit and combine digital content right from the desktop and easily create dynamic communications. "Acrobat X addresses today's critical challenge of communicating and collaborating with widely dispersed teams of colleagues, partners and customers in a compelling way," said Kevin M. Lynch, vice president and general manager of Acrobat, Digital Enterprise Solutions Group, Adobe."Our new Acrobat.com services tackle the need to have access to, exchange, retrieve and view documents reliably from anywhere." New Microsoft SharePoint integration enables consistency of Adobe PDF documents across the enterprise; users can check-in and check-out PDF files for reviewing and editing shared documents.A streamlined process lets large organizations deploy, configure and manage updates and conform to ISO standards, in both Adobe Reader X and Acrobat X,including support for Microsoft SCCM and SCUP. "PDF Portfolios are essential to our collaborative processes," said Patrick Lennon, print and publishing officer, Tourism Ireland. "With Adobe Acrobat X Pro, we can use the Portfolio Wizard to easily incorporate rich media into a single, more secure PDF for streamlined review. It offers an engaging visual experience that makes presentations clearer, more lively, and interactive." Acrobat X offers an array of advanced features that lets me provide students richer, more robust feedback. In addition to using more refined commenting and mark-up tools, I can record verbal feedback and drop the audio file right into the student’s project in PDF for more precise and extensive review," said John Ittelson, professor emeritus of information technology and communications, California State University,Monterey Bay. Acrobat X Standard is immediately available in English, French, German, and Japanese language versions for US$299 ($139 upgrade) and Acrobat X Pro is immediately available for US$449 ($199 upgrade).While Acrobat X Suite is expected to be available by month's end for US$1199 ($799 upgrade).