May 26, 2009

It's show time. Presentations from Adobe!

Posted by Lisa Underkoffler at 2:01 PM

You asked. We listened. Today, we're announcing Acrobat.com Presentations.

This is a Labs Preview of our latest application - Presentations. It's an exciting, new product and we want you to give it a spin!

Our new presentation tool joins Buzzword in the growing ranks of our online collaborative offerings. You can try the public beta version on our labs site (http://labs.acrobat.com). If you already have an Acrobat.com account, you can just sign in. Or, there's free sign up for new users.


What's cool about it? It's collaborative - and in ways that will help make it really easy to work on presentations as a team. It's beautiful - an elegant user experience, tools where you need them, a great set of themes, smart color sets to make your presentations look good and much, much more. And, there's great visual effects you can do, since we're running in Adobe's Flash player - so your presentations will look very polished, with just a couple of clicks.

Acrobat.com Presentations is evenly balanced between working together and working apart. If you want to work on the same slide at the same time, go for it. On the other hand, if you and your colleagues are in different time zones, feel free to make your changes on your schedule.

Now, there is no need to search for the latest version or combine multiple copies in order to capture everyone's changes. Since everyone can work on the presentation, no one is locked out while others are making changes. Presentations also makes it easy to see who has access to the presentation, who is viewing, who is editing, even which slide each person is editing.

This Preview is on Labs because we live by the Web 2.0 dictum, "Ship Early, Ship Often." We want to share this first look at Presentations with our users so that we can get feedback and make sure we're on the right track. We have more features to add before we bring Presentations onto our Acrobat.com page. For example, we're not yet importing and exporting .ppt or .pptx files, but rest assured, the team is hard at work implementing that and more and will be releasing new features regularly. Let us know what you think - click on Send Us Feedback in the Presentations Help menu.

Adobe's Acrobat.com (and Presentations on Acrobat.com Labs) give you a new and elegant way to work together - on documents, on presentations, on web meetings....and there's more to come.

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Comments

May 30, 2009
4:54 PM

Andre Vlcek writes:

Think this is an excellent initiative. Tight integration with PPTX, including support for Hyperlinking, transitions and animations will make this offerring really rock!!

June 2, 2009
2:25 PM

Adriana Zona writes:

A compelling feature that you don't mention in your post is the ability to export the presentation to PDF. WOW - nice work.
I hope you add more fonts to the list.

June 2, 2009
3:27 PM

Gary Poyssick writes:

I agree with Andre. This is an excellent product, and I can see it evolving into a typically elegant Adobe application.

Both the AIR and the FLEX initiatives now being supported (and providing the underlying technology for things like Buzzword and Presentation) are going to change the world yet again. In many ways these technologies are going to have nearly the same impact as did Postscript.

gary in florida, USA.

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