What’s in Acrobat X Suite? Only five of the most powerful communications tools available today: Acrobat X Pro, Photoshop CS5, Captivate 7, Presenter 7 and LiveCycle Designer ES. With these tools you can create rich interactive media, edit and improve digital images, and deliver polished PDF communications.

Here are just a few things you can do with Acrobat X Suite that will amp up your otherwise mundane presentations.

Create presentations that talk. You can transform static PowerPoint slides into compelling, self-running presentations with Adobe Presenter 7. With just a few clicks, you can add narration, videos, and interactivity to make your business presentations look — and sound — better than ever.

Slick Photo editing. You can quickly edit and enhance photos to include in your PDF presentations and proposals. Use the suite’s simple tools to crop, resize, rotate, and color-correct existing photos for professional-looking results.

PDF Portfolio assembly. We all know how effective PDF Portfolios are. Now it’s easier than ever to quickly assemble a wide range of file types — including audio, video, and rich media content — in a polished, organized PDF Portfolio in just three simple steps using the new PDF Portfolio Wizard.

That’s just the beginning. Easy video insertion and screen recording, content aware fill, enhanced HDR imaging, PDF Portfolio customization, security are just a few more of the Suite’s features. So check out the free trial here and see how you can have your audience on the edge of their seats at your next meeting. And you’ll see that life is indeed suite.

Stephanie Baartz-Bowman, Principal Product Marketing Manager, Acrobat

With over one billion downloads, Adobe Reader continues its leadership as the global standard in PDF viewing and interaction.

Reader X for desktop enables an even greater level of interaction with the ability to share feedback through the use of Sticky Notes and Highlighter tools, as well as viewing of more content types, including drawings, email messages, spreadsheets, videos, and other multimedia elements.  You can also take advantage of the added security of Protected Mode in Reader X, which helps ensure safer viewing of PDF files.

With Reader X for Android, we’ve addressed some of the most important features our users have requested including support for Tablets, go to page, search, opening Portfolios and password protected PDF files, and sharing PDF files via email. Adobe Reader for Android was first released back in May of this year and has amassed over 3 million downloads in that short period of time.  In Reader X for Android we’ve also expanded language support to a total of thirteen including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, Czech, Polish and Turkish. 

Your feedback and comments are critical to our success.  Please continue to provide us with your feedback via the Adobe Reader user forums, here. To learn more about the new Adobe Reader X please visit our home page on Adobe.com.  Follow Reader X news on Twitter @Adobe_Reader…. and be one of the first to download Reader X today!

Steve Gottwals, Group Product Manager, Adobe Reader

You don’t mess with an iconic logo – certainly not one that’s been associated with highly successful software that debuted 17 years ago and is ubiquitous on computers worldwide.

But lo and behold, with today’s shipping announcement of Acrobat X, Adobe has launched a campaign creative expression that playfully leverages the iconic PDF Trefoil. And Wizard hats. Specifically, the Wizard hat, adorned by ‘Acrobat Wizards’ in ads now appearing on the Web:

So what is the story behind these ‘Acrobat Wizards?’ Recent versions of Acrobat were about increasing your productivity, but as the business world became more dynamic and social, ‘increased productivity’ meant doing more of the same, only faster. Acrobat X is about doing business in whole new ways. It’s an evolution that enables users to become ‘Wizards’ or heroes at their jobs. Acrobat X evolves Acrobat and PDF off the desktop and sets users up for success, transformation and accomplishment. For example, in one ad a knowledge worker proudly dons his Wizard hat saying, “I’ve inked so many international deals with Adobe Dynamic PDF, HR may change my title to Ambassador.” Another says, “Jon just finished presenting. And people clapped for him. No one’s ever clapped for him. Become an Acrobat Wizard!”

Acrobat X is a not just a next version, rather a new generation of Acrobat that lets people be creative with their work and really shine in ways they couldn’t before. Combining powerful collaboration tools, enterprise integration and ease of use, Acrobat X lets users innovate, create and share higher quality content, leading to tighter collaboration and productivity across teams.

So many tools, what’s a Wizard to do? Here are a few of my favorite new collaboration tools in Acrobat X:

• Guided Actions – Automate routine, multi-step tasks and easily share them with coworkers and collaborators, reducing the burden of training.
• PDF Portfolios – Business professionals can change how users view, think and interact with content and its context with completely new layouts, visual themes and color palettes.
• Microsoft SharePoint integration – Users can now drive consistency of PDF documents across the enterprise, check-in and check-out PDF files for reviewing and edit shared documents.
• Adobe SendNow – Work un-tethered to desktop software with new cloud-based services, including, Adobe SendNow, a new file sharing service that allows multiple people to access a single document from any number of locations.

Keep your eyes peeled for more Acrobat wizardry coming your way soon, and please tell us – what does it mean to YOU to be an Acrobat Wizard? Share how Acrobat has empowered you to be a Wizard at work, in the comment section of this blog. We’ll be featuring our top Acrobat Wizards in upcoming blog posts.

“Adobe Acrobat X is the next generation of a solution that is already invaluable to our firm. It includes all the robust tools we’re used to, as well as additional features so we can collaborate effortlessly and more securely with teams inside and outside our firm,” says Molly DiBianca, associate attorney, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP.

Customers are using such powerful new Acrobat X features like guided Actions, which simplify multi-step document preparation and publishing processes. They are creating amazing content using the completely new customization capabilities in PDF Portfolios to unify multiple file types into compelling presentations. And with Microsoft SharePoint integration, enterprises can be sure of the consistency of their PDF documents across their businesses. And the new, intuitive user interface is making Acrobat X a tool for everyone.

Patrick Lennon, print and publishing officer, Tourism Ireland, sums it up nicely: “Adobe Acrobat X Pro helps us work faster on projects from start to finish. Our ability to collaborate internally as well as with external partners is greatly enhanced with the one-click PDF generation, customizable review tools, enhanced viewing options, and simplified sharing functionality.”

So, it’s here. You can get Acrobat X now through Adobe Authorized Resellers, the Adobe Store and Adobe Direct Sales. For more information on how you can get Acrobat X, look here. See how quickly your business can benefit, try it today.

The Acrobat Solutions Team

As these devices have allowed us to become more connected, the need to be able to exchange documents easily becomes more and more critical to business as well as personal success. There is no longer any reason to tie documents to one machine. We should be able to get access to and retrieve and view those files reliably no matter where we are and no matter what device we are using at the time. And this is where the cloud delivers value.

Just a few weeks ago, we announced the new Acrobat X software family, including new cloud services from Acrobat.com. Today, we’re announcing the availability of those new services – Adobe SendNow and Adobe CreatePDF. Both services are ready to help you solve real business and collaboration problems now.

Adobe SendNow is our new file sharing service that provides a one-stop destination for sending and receiving large files among colleagues and coworkers. While this concept isn’t new —allowing for multiple people to access a single document from any number of locations —SendNow’s delivery is unique. Using just the one service, you can:

• Send large files from your computer to one or many recipients.
• View files that you’ve sent off in the past, and see when and to whom they were sent.
• Keep an eye out for files that have been sent to you.

From a central dashboard, you can now manage your sent documents and download others, all with just a few simple clicks. If the documents contain sensitive information, you can require your recipients to sign in before viewing the file, and can set a particular time frame in which the file can be downloaded. You’ll also have a record of all of your file transactions—sent and received—so you won’t lose track of who’s seen which file and when. What’s more, if you’ve already shared the file, and realized that you forgot to add someone to the list all you need do is locate the file in the “Sent Files” section and simply forward it with a single click.

Adobe CreatePDF is our new service for easy, online PDF creation from any desktop computer. Although this isn’t the first online PDF creation service we’ve offered, Adobe CreatePDF has been redesigned to simplify the process of turning your files into a high-quality PDF document, while allowing you to do more than before.

Now Adobe CreatePDF will let you do more than just convert your Office documents, images and other supported files into an Adobe PDF from your web browser. You will also be able to combine documents into a single PDF file, and if you are using Microsoft Windows, you will be able to install a special printer driver that will allow you to create a PDF file online from any application that can print. Within Adobe Reader X, a new Share pane provides a connection to the online Adobe CreatePDF service, making it easy to create a document that you know others will be able to view consistently.

So welcome to our cloud. I encourage you to try out these new services to experience the cloud like never before. And then let me know what you think.

Mark Grilli, Director of Product Marketing, Acrobat Solutions