Acrobat 9 and Acrobat.com
A couple of big news items from the Acrobat team here at Adobe.
First up, we announced today the forthcoming introduction of Acrobat 9. You can read the press release here, but a few highlights include:
- Deep support for Adobe Flash technology within PDFs - enabling the inclusion of Flash video and .swf files in PDF documents
- Tighter real-time collaboration capabilities
- PDF Portfolios, the ability to assemble multiple media types, such as documents, video, audio, and even 3D objects, into one, compressed PDF file.
Next up, The Acrobat team at Adobe have also announced the public beta of Acrobat.com. Acrobat.com is a "a suite of hosted services available as free public beta that puts communication, productivity, and collaboration tools close at hand within a Web browse."
You can read the press release here, but again a few highlights include:
- Adobe Buzzword, a Web-based word processor that makes it easy to co-author and share documents for comment and review, creating high-quality print results
- Adobe ConnectNow, a personal Web conferencing service that includes desktop sharing, video and voice conferencing and integrated chat
- Centralized online file sharing with access controls and online PDF conversion
- Developer APIs for real-time collaboration, file sharing and conversion
However, like all these things, it's much better to use it than read it - so go to acrobat.com, sign-up and check it out.