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With its incorporation of Flash-based media handling and new integration with Acrobat.com, the Acrobat platform fully embraces the internet age – at last.
Adobe Acrobat made its public debut back in 1991 and the PDF (Portable Document Format) it introduced was intended to become the universal format for design-rich, cross-platform electronic communication.
The launch of the World Wide Web in the same year forced Adobe to radically revise its plans, but the Acrobat platform survived and eventually prospered by making itself indispensable in a whole host of workflows situations, from documentation distribution to commercial printing.
Recently however Acrobat has been showing its age and come to feel slow, lumbering and old-fashioned: a dinosaur in today’s fast-pace internet age. With the chronically unimpressive version 8 release it even seemed that Acrobat might be reaching the end of its useful life. The good news is that that’s not the case at all. In fact version 9 is the most exciting Acrobat release since the launch of the all-important free Reader application.
Acrobat 9 Pro Extended is available at an academic discount price of $215.
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