Acrobat in Education

I have had a few Intel Mac users in academia ask me this week if Acrobat 8.0 for Mac OS X is a Universal Binary application. The answer is "YES!"

That is, it will run natively on Macs with Intel chips and those that have PowerPC processors. Rosetta is a translator that allows Mac software applications that were built for PowerPC processors to run on Mac OS X for Intel-based machines, albeit with a performance hit. For example, Acrobat 6.0 or 7.0 will run on Rosetta as they shipped before Apple started making available Intel-based Macs.

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Adobe has announced the all new Acrobat 8.0 family of products. There is A LOT in this release that those in the academic community will find useful, so keep an eye on this blog for my thoughts and ideas on how you can use those features effectively. By the way, I'm sorry that I've been away for a while. Whilst being out on the road visiting school districts, university campuses and speaking at conferences I've had the opportunity to beta-test Acrobat 8.0 over the summer, and it's a great release! I'm going to be making many posts on the new capabilities, but in the meantime check the updated Acrobat 8.0 for Education pages on Adobe's web site.

Posted by Ali Hanyaloglu at 08:32 AM | Permalink