Acrobat is already a collaboration tool Connect extends this concept to real-time (Figure 3).įigure 3.
That will buy you a personal meeting room that can be used by anyone, anywhere. It will be available in January 2007 for a subscription price of $39 per month, or $395 per year. The coolest new feature is Adobe Connect, a collaboration/meeting system similar to WebEx and Microsoft NetMeeting. Nice-looking icons in the Notes Properties dialog box. You’ll find colorful icons in many places in version 8 for example, in the Properties dialog box for Notes, as shown in Figure 2.įigure 2. People who work on a laptops may regret the change, as they need all the display space they can get. While it’s a stylish arrangement, it does steal desk space - the slice that holds the icons can no longer be used to display documents. For a larger version of this screenshot, click on the image. No more tabs - instead, bookmarks, comments, and so on are keyed by clicking on the icons at the left of the desktop. Acrobat then places an icon for the selection on your desktop so you can quickly access the panel the next time you need it.įigure 1. Right-clicking on the icons brings up a variety of panels, such as Comments, Fields, Help, and Model Tree. Version 8 greets you with a handsome interface makeover sporting colorful icons on the desktop (Figure 1), a nice change from version 7’s utilitarian tabs. However, that doesn’t mean it’s all bad news. This chore might not be practical, and it certainly won’t be welcomed by anyone’s IT department. The corporate audience might like the new collaboration features (as long as they’re willing to pay for them), but unless they’re on Macs, those same businesses also need to upgrade participating machines to Windows XP SP2 before they can collaborate. Some of the changes may confuse and frustrate long-time print-production professionals while adding features that most businesses may not need.
Although the entire package is fairly pricey ($499 upgrade $159) and was traditionally aimed at high-level users and print production folks, this version’s “improvements’ are aimed at, um, well, I couldn’t really identify a target audience. I’ll state this upfront: I find many of the changes in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional inexplicable.
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