Today, Adobe Systems announced Acrobat 8, enabling business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection.

Here's a preview of some of the new Acrobat security capabilities:

* Native document redaction
* Document inspection (for metadata, attachments, and other potentially hidden information)
* Support for Adobe Online Services
* "Roaming Credential" system for easier digital signature deployments
* Updated user-interface for digital signatures
* Security plumbing updates like SHA256 & SHA512
* and more...