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Adobe Acrobat Version 8 Released
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Yesterday Adobe announced the availability of version 8 of the Acrobat family of products. |
In the first signs of integration with the MacroMedia line of products since acquiring MacroMedia in 2005 for $3.4 Billion, Adobe has re-branded the FlashPlayer-based MacroMedia Breeze product as Acrobat Connect. Connect is a new addition to the Acrobat product line but it is quite a bit different than the other Acrobat component products.
Acrobat Connect is a hosted web conferencing service similar to WebEx or Microsoft’s NetMeeting. Members are assigned permanent virtual meeting rooms with fixed user-definable URLs, similar to phone numbers or email addresses. The service is billed monthly with unlimited usage for up to 15 participants. Functionality is similar to other web conferencing solutions, including screen sharing, white boarding, chat and video conferencing. The Connect Meeting room allows customized layout with small windows of information called “pods”. The Acrobat Connect service is free through the end of the year and $39/month after that. There is also an SDK that would allow developers to create custom interactive applications based on Connect.
Another new version 8 capability include the Acrobat 8 Professional support for true redaction. In earlier versions of Acrobat, text could be redacted by hiding the text with layered markups, but the text was still in the file and could even be searched.
Acrobat 8 introduces a redaction toolbar with a “Search & Redact” capability. Redactions are displayed using color-codes that you select based based on the type of redaction being made. Redacted text is totally removed from the document. Within the context of document management, the feature is great — a frequently asked for capability, but you’ll need to remember to keep the original document archived using a different set of access control privileges.
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