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Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional [OLD VERSION]x$279.99
  (29 reviews)
Best Price: $449.00 $279.99
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents more easily. It's the essential tool for more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection. Combine files from multiple applications, collaborate on documents via e-mail or server, and collect information with electronic forms. Protect sensitive information with passwords and permissions. Enable users of Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8) to participate in document reviews, fill and save forms, and digitally sign documents. Create new PDFs rapidly with Adobe LifeCycle Designer, and start working more easily with AutoCAD documents, even without owning a CAD tool. Convert e-mail in Lotus Notes to Adobe PDF to facilitate searching, archiving, and retrieval Inspect PDF documents for hidden information, including metadata, annotations, attachments, form fields, layers, and bookmarks -- selectively delete as needed Enhanced OCR capabilities - Scan paper more accurately to generate searchable PDF documents Take advantage of improved functionality for saving Adobe PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables Enhanced review and markup tools for easier, more accurate placement and resizing of markup items Create documents in PDF/A, the new ISO standard for long-term archiving of electronic documents Enable anyone using free Adobe Reader software to participate in document reviews, fill and save electronic forms offline, and digitally sign documents Create Adobe PDF documents from Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, AutoCAD, and Lotus Notes Quickly create high-quality, compact PDF files from AutoCAD designs tha Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional for Windows software enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection. Protect sensitive information with passwords, permissions, and digital signatures. Enable users of Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8) to participate in document reviews, fill and save forms, and digitally sign documents. Top reasons to upgrade to Acrobat 8 Create and optimize Adobe PDF documents
Create an Adobe PDF document from Microsoft Office, Outlook, Internet Explorer, or any application that prints. Easily convert and optimize documents, spreadsheets, e-mails, websites, and technical drawings into more secure Adobe PDF files that preserve the formatting and integrity of the original files. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader software. 
Acrobat 8.0 Professional has a new, more intuitive user interface. View larger.
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Enable Adobe Reader (version 7.0 or 8) users to participate in document reviews, digitally sign documents, and fill in and save PDF forms. Then organize comments from multiple reviewers with Acrobat's sorting and filtering tools.
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Acrobat lets you combine files from multiple applications into a single Adobe PDF document.
| Combine files from multiple applications
Easily assemble documents, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mails, web pages, forms, CAD drawings, and diagrams into a single Adobe PDF document. Present files in your preferred order, regardless of file type, paper size, or orientation. Embed multimedia, 3D designs, audio, and video for a richer experience. Enhance and extend document collaboration
Accelerate feedback and approvals with robust tools for initiating, managing, and tracking document reviews. Enable Adobe Reader (version 7.0 or 8) users to participate in document reviews with commenting tools. Reviewers can use familiar commenting tools—including sticky notes, stamps, highlighter, pencil, strikethrough, callout, dimension lines, shapes, and clouds—for review and markup of Adobe PDF files. Merge feedback into a single PDF file to reconcile comments. Streamline data collection with Adobe PDF forms
Automate manual entry and help reduce costly errors by managing information electronically with PDF forms. Easily create a wide range of electronic forms for distribution through e-mail or on the web. Enable users of free Adobe Reader (version 7.0 or 8) to fill and save forms (for ad-hoc forms distribution and data collection for up to 500 people.). Capture and consolidate inbound data into spreadsheets or back-end systems. Apply advanced document security and controls
Control access to and use of Adobe PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity. Set document permissions to define whether a file can be printed or changed. Apply passwords to help restrict document access. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document control policies to precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document. Top reasons to buy Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional - Enable advanced features in Adobe Reader — Enable anyone using free Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8) to participate in document reviews, fill and save electronic forms offline, and digitally sign documents.
- Combine and optimize documents — Combine documents, drawings, and rich media content into a single, polished Adobe PDF document. Optimize file size and arrange files in any order regardless of file type, dimensions, or orientation.
- Accelerate document reviews — Send documents for review and track which reviewers have contributed feedback. Compile comments into a single PDF document with one-button ease and sort them by author, date, or page.
- Save in Microsoft Word — Save Adobe PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables, to facilitate reuse of content.
With a scanner and Acrobat's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, you can turn stacks of paper documents into easily searchable electronic PDF archives.
| - Create advanced forms — Design dynamic, interactive forms to collect and aggregate data through email or on the web with included Adobe LiveCycle Designer software.
- Easily create Adobe PDF documents — Create Adobe PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Office applications. Windows users can also create Adobe PDF documents from Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, AutoCAD, and Lotus Notes.
- Apply passwords and assign permissions — Restrict access to Adobe PDF documents using 128-bit encryption. Set document permissions to help restrict who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.
- Permanently remove sensitive information — Permanently remove metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and use redaction tools to permanently delete sensitive text, illustrations, or other content.
- Archive papers and e-mails for easy search and retrieval — Scan paper documents with OCR technology to create compact, searchable Adobe PDF documents. Convert Microsoft Outlook e-mail archives to Adobe PDF to facilitate search and retrieval.
- Generate professional, print-ready files — Automate the preflight process and correct issues that might compromise print quality without creating a new Adobe PDF document.
Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional - Combine multiple files into one PDF package — Combine multiple files as PDF documents in a searchable, sortable PDF package that maintains the individual security settings and digital signatures of each included PDF document.
- Auto-recognize form fields — Automatically locate form fields in static PDF documents and convert them to interactive fields that can be filled electronically by anyone using Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8).
Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source.
| - Manage shared reviews — Easily conduct shared reviews — without IT assistance — that allow review participants to see one another's comments and track the status of the review.
- Enable advanced features in Adobe Reader — Enable anyone using free Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8) to fill and save electronic forms offline and digitally sign documents.
- Permanently remove sensitive information — Permanently remove metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and use redaction tools to permanently delete sensitive text, illustrations, or other content.
- Archive Microsoft Outlook e-mail in PDF — Configure Acrobat 8 Professional to automatically archive e-mail in Microsoft Outlook for easy search and retrieval.
- Archive Lotus Notes e-mail — Convert e-mail in Lotus Notes to Adobe PDF to facilitate searching, archiving, and retrieval.
- Save in Microsoft Word — Take advantage of improved functionality for saving Adobe PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables.
- Enjoy improved performance and support for AutoCAD — More rapidly convert AutoCAD drawing files into compact, accurate PDF documents, without the need for the native desktop application.
- Take advantage of a new, intuitive user interface — Complete tasks more quickly with a streamlined user interface, new customizable toolbars, and a "Getting Started" page to visually direct you to commonly used features.
| Product Feature Comparison | Acrobat 8
Standard | Acrobat 8
Professional | | | Create PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Office, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Access, and Publisher as well as Lotus Notes (Windows only) | x | x | | | Combine files from multiple applications into a single PDF document | x | x | | | Conduct collaborative document reviews that allow review participants to see one another’s comments | x | x | | | Protect PDF documents with passwords and 128-bit encryption | x | x | | | Enable Adobe Reader (version 7.0 or 8) users to participate in document reviews, digitally sign documents, and fill and save PDF forms (for ad-hoc forms distribution and data collection for up to 500 people) | | x | | | Create PDF documents with one-button ease from AutoCAD, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Project (Windows only) | | x | | | Quickly and easily create high-quality, compact PDF files from AutoCAD designs that preserve layers, scale, page layout, and page size (Windows only) | | x | | | Create advanced Adobe PDF forms with included Adobe LiveCycle Designer software (Windows only) | | x | |
MPN: 22020404 - UPC: 883919018621
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Customer Reviews
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Good release, a bit glitchy though and more bloated than ever.
By A5J5IUEQZDTAD on 2007-01-11
Adobe comes out and delivers another fine Acrobat product. While I purchased this for the sole purpose of creating PDFs and forms we could email our customers, have them fill out, save and email back, the brief touches I've had with the automatic form generators have left me impressed. The user interface is well thought out and clean which is a touchy subject for me personally as a programmer who specializes in UI design. Everything is movable, hide-able and customizable in a new sharp looking set of toolbars that should feel right at home in Windows Vista.
But, while it's a fine product that loads quickly thanks to a pre-loader when Windows starts, it does suffer from it's share of problems. The new user interface, while fancy, is glitchy, and has crashed out the software on more than one occasion. Simple innocuous tasks such as dragging a form element into alignment can suddenly leave you staring dumbfounded at your desktop as Windows defends itself from some index out of bounds fault. Is it entirely stable? No, but sadly, it's up to par with 99% of the industry's X.0 release software standards; which means it's 98% usable, but don't hand your boss an unpadded deadline that doesn't take into account a few crashes here and there.
Finally, yes, while the price of RAM continues to decrease, the memory (and hard disk) footprint of software continues to increase to obscene levels. Make sure your office equipment is on the more modern side because it'll take up 20meg+ of your RAM just when the computer starts; which is in this IT professional's opinion, a hefty price to pay just to look at PDFs in my web browser or on my hard drive without a 20 second load-up delay. Load it up and create a PDF of a simple Word 2003 document that contains only a page of text, and task manager tells you it's now eating up 50 meg. In short, it won't run well on the bargain-basement Intel Celeron, 256meg Windows XP machine.
As a final note for those who aren't heavily into IT looking to buy this product for their small office, you need to be connected to the internet when this is installed and be absolutely sure you install it on the computer it's going to permanently reside on. Like most expensive modern business software, Acrobat requires an activation in the name of Digital Rights Management that records it's serial number and the hardware ID of the computer it's installed on and keeps it on file at Adobe. One copy of the software will let you install it on exactly one machine. Try to install it on another machine (even if the original machine got obsoleted, kicked the bucket or transferred to different personnel), and you'll be met with a "this is already installed, please buy another copy" message. DRM forces forethought in these modern times.
Overall, it's excellent software, and for the faults I listed, I still give it 4 stars because it's an extremely solid product that'll work hard for you. Expect the crashing issues to clear up as Adobe silently releases 8.0.1 and onward as free patches that will be downloaded automatically thanks to Adobe's built-in upgrade manager. While executives balked at the idea of office personnel with 1 gig of RAM in a common desktops a year ago, in reality, that's the working minimum these days for your office's power users who may have eight things open and/or running at once. It's a $50 upgrade that to a power user, saves about 5 minutes of worktime on every hour of computer use. Do the math and get them the tools they need because software like this won't be getting less bloated anytime soon.
Finally, if all you're looking at is to create PDF files, there are many smaller, cheaper programs out there that can easily do the task. You might want to hit up Google and investigate further.
FUBAR
By A2AV7Q95QGPTO0 on 2007-10-12
Software that repeatedly crashes and requires multiple reloadings deserves NO STARS, but amazon does not allow that option, so this gets 1 star.
Having owned versions 4, 5, 6 and now 8, I've watched this product add features, and with them glitches. Would it be a great product if it worked? Yes. Unfortunately, it crashes, and crashes and crashes.
Adobe has already issued two update fixes, but still it crashes.
Not good.
UPDATE: Since writing the above, I have purchased a new HP desktop and Acrobat generally works on it. The major exceptions are the actions listed under the Document tab, especially Reduce File Size, which simply crashes as soon as you click on it. For anyone who stores large files, this is a significant defect.
My old computer (a Gateway) was about five years old. Both computers run on Windows XP, so the operating system is not the cause of the crashes.
2nd UPDATE: Today [02/06/08] Adobe released Ver. 8.1.2. It's still screwed up.
3rd UPDATE 02/23/08: There is an alternative on the horizon, PDF Converter Professional 5.0 by Nuance Communications, which sells OmniPage 16 Professional. Nuance has an ugly history of selling software before its time (i.e., using early purchasers as beta sites), but it's the only real alternative I've been able to find. There are other shareware programs, but they don't have the functionality of Adobe Acrobat 8.
UPDATE #4 02/26/08: Well, it looks like PDF Converter Professional 5 also lacks the functionality of Adobe Acrobat 8. I went to Nuance's website and downloaded the new version, only to find that it lacks support for scanners. (This is strange because Nuance's flagship product, Omnipage, does include support for scanners.) It does, however, include features for inserting, extracting, replacing, deleting, cropping and rotating pages, which I had been having trouble with in Adobe. In its promotional materials, Nuance claims that it will create headers and footers, but I see no evidence of that.
UPDATE #5 07/28/08: This will be my final update, since Adobe has released Adobe Acrobat Professional 9. I bought a copy yesterday and have just begun using it. It seems not to suffer from the flaws that afflicted Acrobat 8, but we'll see.
The clear lesson of all of this is that Adobe releases poorly written and documented software, treating its customers as beta testers. Caveat Emptor.
Bloated and Unstable
By A1VTMUC27YC20J on 2007-07-03
Another bloated, greedy and unstable piece of software from Adobe. Software whos auto-update feature caused my entire software suite to crash as Adobe burrows into everything for Word and Outlook to Internet Exploiter and Explorer. Here's the kicker, the Adobe software won't let you uninstall or reinstall, generating a consistent error that is not documented on Adobes website. And if you even bother to try their customer support line, find a comfortable chair and make a drink, you're gonna need it.
This upgrade looks nice, but is much slower
By A1SY450R72NAQV on 2006-11-03
It's quite a bit slower than version 7. But it looks really good and the form designer has been improved by leaps and bounds.
Not for VISTA, validation problems and terrible tech support
By A1S7HF7EY2PZJI on 2007-07-11
Although this is a valuable product when it works. Beware, Adobe tech support told me that it NOT VISTA COMPATIBLE. We have personal experience of this. Additionally, as with all Adobe products their validation process often does not work. We have spent hours on the phone and come to heated tempers when trying to validate a legitimate Adobe product. Validation also stopped working after a few weeks and we had to repeat the process and encurr hours of loss time. We have also had Adobe updates crash the entire system which took day to fix with many incompetent tech support staff members.
- Acrobat 8.0 does not work with Office 2007 Vista
By A33VHGAPWY0VA4 on 2007-04-18
I have a recently purchased Acrobat 8.0 Professional. It installed fine on my new Vista machine, although it cites only Office 2003 products. But I have MS Office 2007. After installation (and reinstallation) no Acrobat conversion options show on MS Word, and when trying to use Acrobat directly for an MS Word file conversion it first reinstalls itself, and then reports that the Word file (I have tried several) is corrupt.
I now have to ask colleagues with older software to do my PDF conversion.
I could not find out if or when Adobe plans to be compatible with Vista and Office 2007.
- Software good, help and support average.
By A3GC8839D88GUV on 2007-04-02
I ran into errors displayed when trying to register the software. Wrote down the errors and called adobe, and adobe tells me to ignore the errors, the software is registered anyway. So far the product is working great for my required documentation project, but as usual with adobe products, the aftermarket need for additional manuals, training and tutorials is where the other 2/3 of the money is made. A product should have an in depth support and help system within the package you purchase. If the product has a feature, there should be an answer for all options in the product manual. I should not need to buy an aftermarket manual or visit an online support forum to find an answer to a question that should be in the product manual in the first place. I recommend the product in you need proprietary document formats or special document security for forms that the general public can access or needs to access. If you hope to get up and running in a hurry or need some help with the details, buy a little extra help, buy an aftermarket book on the product. The help information that comes with the product is frustrating for lack of necessary information, and sometimes the language to find the answers is frustrating itself. A little more intuitive menu help is all that is needed. If there is a name of an option or feature within the software, the same name should be in the help file index.
- Version 8.1.0 does not work at all
By AB27YUAMXQ28L on 2007-08-08
Like many other reviewers, My version would not even load to the opening screen before an error code and system shutdown occurred. I downloaded 8.1.0 direct from Adobe and installed it on a professional workstation. An HP xw9300 with Windows Professional XP with all service packs and no viruses or spybots. I tried an hour with Adobe customer support but got nowhere. They outsource telephone support to India. I talked to two separate individuals that did not even know how to use their own computer. Don't even think of buying this product.
- Failure of trial version Adobe Acrobat 8.01
By A3CHDLWLFJOXJP on 2007-08-04
I tried the Adobe Acrobat 8.01 professional trial version before purchasing the upgrade. In the process of installation it required a working version of Acrobat Professional 6.0 to be removed. The trial version did not work on an updated Windows XP environment. This led me to an on-the-road problem: no working version of Acrobat. I do not recommend this product until new versions are compatible with simulaneous presence of earlier versions and bugs in the present version are fixed.
- Like Very Much
By A2PDUO4V073Y51 on 2007-02-02
I bought Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional for home use after having used an older version at work. The software was very easy to install, activate, and register; and I liked the orientation program that explained how to use the features. Since I am active with three community service organizations, I welcome the addition to my home computer for the convenience it adds to assembling mixed media "binders." This program makes it easier to email formal reports, create handbills and pamphlets, and post them to my web page.
- By all means try before you buy!
By A3D0YXXL3CDETC on 2007-11-22
I'm so glad that I installed a trial version of Acrobat 8 Professional prior to buying it. Luckily, I did not need to uninstall a working version of the product in order to install the trial version, unlike the previous reviewer. The program crashed at least a dozen times during my first hour of use, and I wasn't trying to do anything complicated. For example, the program simply disappeared without a trace when I pressed the Settings button during a Save as... dialog or attempted to Edit -> Preferences for HTML export.
- Installation Nightmare - RAID 1 won't work
By A2LHGFZD90DY57 on 2008-03-03
My initial installation of Adobe 8 failed on 32-bit Vista, though with the available patches it ultimately worked on Vista. We purchased new workstations with RAID 1 (mirrored hard drives) because of a catastrophic data loss last year.
However, to protect themselves from piracy, Adobe employed Macrovision to write their copy protection module. It will not allow Acrobat to run with mirrored drives (RAID 1). This is essentially undocumented. There were no error messages saying this product is not licensed for use on a RAID array equipped workstation. Worst of all their technical support did not know or would not say that RAID is not permitted. Rather they blamed our hardware, software, network, ...
All we saw was a locked up Adobe Acrobat 8 activation screen. After a week of working with Adobe technical support we finally proved that RAID 1 is not a permitted configuration. We, at Adobe's insistance, purchased an enterprise licensed version over and above the the retail version (not returnable). We changed out processors, motherboards and did major server (Group Policy) reconfiguration but did not fix the problem. We went through XP and Vista both 32 bit and 64 bit at Adobe's request.
Adobe really should just tell customers that RAID 1 is not permitted. Their technical support should know this and not waste a week of their customer's time trying everything else. Their blame the customer and debug in the field approach has me looking for alternatives.
Other than that it is a very good product.
- More features than ever
By A23HFCBI4N3XQI on 2007-05-24
Most people probably buy this product for one main reason - to make PDFs from the Print function of other apps. But Acrobat has an incredible amount of features beyond that - I'm a fairly big techie and even I was surprised.
Forms designner, digital signature creation and storage, review and collaboration, Sharepoint integration, the list goes on and on. I'm probably not doing the product justice, and don't have the time to go into more detail, but it wouldn't take much to make Acrobat the principal tool in the info sharing, forms routing, approval segment of your business.
- No problems with install or use.
By A1WL8YG5YCYTI7 on 2007-08-09
I'm running Win XP SP2 and Office 2007; Adobe Acrobat 8 pro installed without a problem and interfaces just fine with Office 2007 applications - even Outlook. Have not run into any problems.
- Acrobat has become bloatware...
By ACUYXGCMWVF7S on 2008-04-02
This is really quite disappointing- Acrobat, which used to be a quick, low-resource alternative to text delivery, has become a piece of software so bloated that it crashes constantly, takes an eternity to install or uninstall, and is generally not worth the upgrade. I'd wager that 90% of people would be just fine with Acrobat from 6 years ago, and most of the "features" added to this suite are unnecessary and actually detrimental to the software. Avoid, and look for open-source alternatives!
- Dramatic change
By A279WP0V7YZP6B on 2007-01-10
At first I had some difficulty adjusting to the new interface. Once I got used to it though I find it a lot more useful and comfortable to operate.
It's a great step forward in all senses for Acrobat!!!
- Money well spent
By A17NAS0JNC052J on 2007-08-12
Very pleased with the software. Easy install, no system conflicts and all the added upgrades, wizards and gizmos makes this product much more than simply a PDF maker. I'm a skeptic with most things, but this time my expectations were surpassed.
- They'll try to screw you
By A1LZUFGGEHFV9J on 2008-02-21
Adobe has a habit of making sure their new products break their old ones, thus forcing you to upgrade. Try editing a pdf in Acrobat Professional v5.0 Seems to work... but you can't print it from any of the newer versions of the reader. Oops. And did you ever have the pdf writer? If so, you may have noticed that a fairly recent upgrade of the Reader disabled your installation of the writer. Hmmm... now why would that happen? Time to upgrade, I guess.
Do yourself a favor and find an alternative solution. Adobe wants more wallet share, and they're willing to do whatever it takes to get it.
- It's okay, but not great
By A3B9NWEPPFDUP9 on 2007-02-20
The software does everything it's supposed to do, but not easily. It's the only thing out there, though, so at least it's better than nothing.
- Great must-have product
By A19DUNL9BGIR5R on 2007-10-19
Creating a pdf from any other format is almost a must capabiity, however I was a bit disappointed Adobe imbedded itself everywhere. Good from a usability standpoint, but ask me first if I want to do that. In all, no problems with the product, in installation or use.
Window Media Center, Gateway laptop w/ AMD Turion64 & 1 gig RAM.
- Good not excellent
By A5C4QNLIZIDR0 on 2008-02-24
It's a very good product but for Vista I would go with Acrobat 9. 8 and 9 are practically the same in terms of what a user can do. Adobe cleaned some of the bugs in Version 9, which is particularly important for Windows Vista.
- Great Service
By A1CYZJO88E2BCA on 2007-05-09
I appreciated the prompt service that I received when I ordered this product. It arrived before the anticipated delivery date. I would recommend using Amazon for your order.
- adobe acrobat 8
By A15NOVT45QAWFC on 2008-01-22
this is a very useful product for a law firm like us because we make forms and we interact with clients using safe passwords... so after making a wonderfully useful form, we emailed to client with a password to open so that they could fill it up and email back to us.... but our clients who had lower version/free version of adobe couldn't do that. they just had to print the form out and mail to us... which made this whole password business silly. do they have to buy this same product to do what we want to do?
- Just as Advertised
By A2SDSJRJ9EL1E4 on 2008-01-28
Brand new. Shrink-wrapped. Just as advertised. Installed with no problem. I am happy.
- Full Version Works as Expected and What a Price
By A1I6UWCUJ29ACF on 2008-02-28
We had been pricing this elsewhere at 300 plus dollars. Wow, what a bargain we got. Works as expected, no gotchas, a smooth install and great product as Acrobat usually is.
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