| Acrobat 5.0 Upgrade Win | 
 enlarge | From: Adobe Systems Inc.
Category: Software
Buy New: £39.99
Buy New/Used from £39.99
Avg. Customer Rating:   (13 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1573
Language: English (Original Language)
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Nt, Windows Xp, Windows 2000, Windows Me
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
EAN: 5029766329687
ASIN: B00005B9WM
Release Date: April 6, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Adobe Acrobat 5.0 is PDF-creation software, from the people who first established the PDF standard. PDF stands for portable document format and it remains the best way of making documents that can be read by anyone on any platform. Version 5.0 brings significant improvements, particularly with regard to its interaction with other leading software such as the Office suite and programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator. Installation is easy and features a function button added to Office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. When you have written a document in these programs, simply click the PDF button on the toolbar and it will guide you through saving it as a PDF. Anyone with Acrobat Reader, which is free and available for download from Adobe's Web site, can view the documents. These documents can also be uploaded to Internet sites, or onto networks. This is a key feature of this version. This Web-savvy function means that documents can be posted on the Intranet or a network and other users can simultaneously view, write on, edit, highlight and stick notes on it, using Acrobat's tools within their browser window. This has obvious merit for anyone who has meetings where not everyone can attend. Graphics from leading software such as Illustrator and Photoshop can be placed into these PDFs and when clicked on later will launch the creation program if editing is needed. Digital signatures can be created and added to the PDF file so that once the key is exchanged with your chosen recipient, security of documents is assured as only they can open it. All in all, Acrobat 5.0 should be an essential part of the toolbox of anyone who needs to share documents. It is easy to use and creates extremely high-quality items, whether business spreadsheets, brochures for customers (it maintains the integrity of the on-screen version on printers, ensuring that the look you intended is rendered to a high-quality) or Web sites. All this can be achieved within a guaranteed-secure environment. --Alison Jardine
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Don't buy acrobat 6 unless you really need it July 25, 2004
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Acrobat 5 is fairly fast and light. Run well under MacOS X Panther. Most of its job is done without using "sci-fi features" I currently use both the Mac and Win version and got no problem at all.
Acrobat 6 - as, for all I can see, the whole CS series - is heavy and slow (on a 1,25 Mhz G4 with 1 gig of RAM). Unless one needs some very high level feature, is better to stay sticked to the previous version.
Good Marketing Tool January 21, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I find this software essential for marketing purposes - sending impressive yet graphics heavy information to customers is useless if they can't open it on the other side due to a slow internet connection. The security aspect is excellent also, in that quotes or sensitive information cannot be altered on the recipient's computer. A must have to slim down those massive emails!
 It does what it claims, but... March 25, 2003
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
As other reviewers have correctly observed, this is NOT a program for creating documents - you use other programs such as WORD to do that. But having created them, you can use Acrobat to convert them into a form that can be viewed consistently across a variety of operating systems (once the would-be reader has downloaded the freebie Acrobat Viewer).And that's about it. Useful, but with a quite ludicrous price tag for what it actually does.
 Significantly better than 4.0 January 5, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Acrobat 5.0 doesn't ship with the paper capture plugin, but this is available as a 15MB download - FREE - from Adobe com. Use google search to find it more easily. Even so, it's not the greatest feature to have in Acrobat, it being too inconsistent to get good results. It's better than nothing, but FineReader 5.0/6.0 is vastly superior for OCR work, which can then be converted to a .PDF.Unlike 4.0, 5.0 can save a .PDF as a postscript file that can then be re-distilled to a .PDF. This gets around the problem of some .PDFs, that have been made with a ghostscript application, and which Acrobat won't recognise directly when trying to save it after work in Acrobat has been carried out. This also applies to some .PDFs created in Win NT and MAC. Unfortunately, bookmarks and other mark-ups will be lost and will have to be re-done. Forms should be okay if you export the form data before re-distilling. An unsecured .PDF can be saved as a .RTF , but unless the text has been tagged you will have a lot of re-work to do in a word processor to re-format the paragraphs, etc. Even tagged text needs a lot of touching up. Only the simplest of text documents work reasonably well. The web-capture feature now works with web-pages downloaded to your hard drive, whereas 4.0 would only work directly from a URL. Much more sensible. PDF security is more comprehensive and the digital signature details are improved. For most circumstances, and if you already have Acrobat 4.0, the upgrade to 5.0 is hard to justify. However, 5.0 is a more refined version with many features that are helpful to those doing a lot of complicated, workflow-centric .PDF work. And where collaboration over a network is important.
To distribute onwards, you need this December 3, 2002
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
It is a very good system anyway (based on a special printer-related idea) but its main value is that you can distribute word docs, technical manuals, spreadsheets and - in my case - drawings, without the recipient having to have either the application or a special viewer. To download the Acrobat Reader is free and it's widely available.
It is thus almost a 'language' and is capable of many uses. A document/drawing etc saved in .pdf is also usually much smaller than the original document and therefore very useful on websites, to email etc. It's also very 'searchable' in that an Acrobat document comes complete with its own Find facility.
Highly recommended if you're going to want to send a drawing, manual or whatever to many different people.
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