Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Product Comparison

Adobe® Acrobat® 7.0 Product Comparison The Adobe Acrobat 7.0 family provides essential software applications to help you create, combine, manage, and control Adobe PDF documents.

CREATE AND SHARE DOCUMENTS RELIABLY

ACROBAT ACROBAT ACROBAT FEATURES COMPARISON PROFESSIONAL STANDARD ELEMENTS Create Adobe PDF ﬁles from any application that prints ✓ ✓ ✓ Right-click or drag and drop ﬁles to the Acrobat icon for easy conversion ✓ ✓

Create Adobe PDF ﬁles from popular business applications with one-button ease:

• From Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more ✓ ✓ ✓ • From Internet Explorer—capture an entire Web site, a single page, or portions of a page (Windows® only) ✓ ✓ • From Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft Access (Windows only) ✓ ✓ Combine multiple files into a single, consolidated Adobe PDF • From Microsoft Outlook (Windows only), retaining e-mail attachments, links, ✓ ✓ document—Combine files from different sources. Include technical and bookmarks for sender, date, and subject drawings, marketing presentations, graphical catalog designs, budget spreadsheets, internal memos, e-mail messages or entire Create Adobe PDF files with one-button ease from AutoCAD®, Microsoft Visio, e-mail folders, and more. and Microsoft Project (Windows only) • Preserve layers in AutoCAD and Visio ✓ • Retain Visio custom properties as object data Easily create large-format (ARCH, ANSI, ISO, JIS) PDF files ✓ Scan documents into Adobe PDF and automatically recognize text with optical character recognition (OCR) ✓ ✓ Select PDF file compression and resolution ✓ ✓

ASSEMBLE MULTIPLE FILES INTO A SINGLE, POLISHED DOCUMENT

ACROBAT ACROBAT ACROBAT FEATURES COMPARISON PROFESSIONAL STANDARD ELEMENTS Combine both PDF as well as files from other applications into a single PDF document ✓ ✓ Reduce PDF file size with one click ✓ ✓ Assemble documents—Create a single Adobe PDF document Attach files to PDF documents ✓ ✓ from multiple sources, including portions of Web pages and previously combined Adobe PDF documents. Optimize compression and resolution of an Adobe PDF file ✓ Add and precisely place backgrounds or watermarks, headers and footers ✓ ✓ Embed multimedia and sound files ✓ Embed 3D graphics ✓ EASILY GATHER AND TRACK FEEDBACK FROM MULTIPLE REVIEWERS

ACROBAT ACROBAT ACROBAT FEATURES COMPARISON PROFESSIONAL STANDARD ELEMENTS

Enable anyone using Adobe Reader® 7.0 to participate in reviews ✓

Quickly zoom into a document to view details using the dynamic zoom tool ✓ ✓ Navigate pages and inspect details closely using the loupe tool and pan and zoom window ✓ Easily measure distance, perimeter, and area ✓ Help reviewers quickly engage in reviews with “how to” information and commenting tools that pop up automatically ✓ ✓ Use familiar commenting and markup tools ✓ ✓

Use cloud, callout, dimension, and arrow tools to mark up engineering documents ✓ ✓

Manage reviews by exchanging Adobe PDF documents by e-mail ✓ ✓

Track the status of feedback with review-management tools ✓ ✓ Comment on documents with new and enhanced tools— Provide feedback on documents using familiar commenting Automatically merge comments so they appear together in one PDF ✓ ✓ tools, including highlighter, sticky note, pen, callout, dimension lines, and more. Use the comment list summary to easily reconcile comments ✓ ✓

Sort and ﬁlter comments by reviewer ✓ ✓

Format and spell-check comments ✓ ✓

Export comments into Word documents (Windows only) ✓ ✓

Export comments into AutoCAD ﬁles (Windows only) ✓

Compare two Adobe PDF ﬁles side by side to see diﬀerences ✓

APPLY DOCUMENT CONTROL AND SECURITY

ACROBAT ACROBAT ACROBAT FEATURES COMPARISON PROFESSIONAL STANDARD ELEMENTS Protect documents with passwords and 128-bit encryption, including the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) endorsed by the U.S. government ✓ ✓ ✓ Apply restrictions on printing, copying, and alterations ✓ ✓ ✓ Certify documents using Geotrust® Digital Services to verify document authenticity ✓ ✓ Help ensure document authenticity and integrity using digital signatures and ✓ ✓ Protect sensitive and confidential documents—Add access control public key infrastructure (PKI) technology to protect documents inside and outside the firewall, online and offline. Add security policies integrated with Adobe LiveCycle™ Policy Server ✓ ✓ CREATE FORMS USING ADOBE LIVECYCLE DESIGNER*

ACROBAT ACROBAT ACROBAT FEATURES COMPARISON PROFESSIONAL STANDARD ELEMENTS

Create XML-based PDF forms for intelligent data collection ✓

Create forms using built-in templates ✓

Create forms from imported Word or PDF ﬁles ✓

Create forms from scratch using Adobe LiveCycle Designer tools ✓

Add document security features to forms ✓

Export form data to a spreadsheet for further analysis, without needing to re-key ✓ Create eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based Adobe PDF forms for intelligent data collection—Quickly and easily create forms from * Included with Acrobat Professional, Windows only scratch, or use templates.

PREPARE FILES FOR HIGH-QUALITY PRINTING

ACROBAT ACROBAT ACROBAT FEATURES COMPARISON PROFESSIONAL STANDARD ELEMENTS Correct issues that might compromise print quality without creating a new Adobe PDF ﬁle ✓

Print composites and save composite EPS ﬁles ✓

Divide oversized pages or selected areas of a PDF ﬁle into segments for printing ✓

Flatten live transparencies, ﬁx hairline rules, and convert colors to CMYK ✓

Preview color separations and transparency ﬂattening ✓

Preﬂight documents to help ensure PDF/X compliance and PostScript® level compatibility ✓

Convert preﬂight reports into comments to share with clients ✓

Print documents with their design intact—Improved preﬂighting features help to ensure reliable print output. ORGANIZE AND ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS

ACROBAT ACROBAT ACROBAT FEATURES COMPARISON PROFESSIONAL STANDARD ELEMENTS Use the built-in organizer tool to ﬁnd, sort, and review thumbnails of Adobe PDF documents ✓ ✓ Search Adobe PDF documents to retrieve information quickly ✓ ✓ ✓ Create documents using the PDF/A standard archive format ✓ ✓ Catalog and build indexes of documents ✓

Convert paper to searchable, electronic format— Scan paper documents and forms to create compact, CREATE MORE ACCESSIBLE ADOBE PDF FILES searchable Adobe PDF documents. ACROBAT ACROBAT ACROBAT FEATURES COMPARISON PROFESSIONAL STANDARD ELEMENTS Make non-accessible PDF documents more accessible by adding tags to control reading order and improve navigation ✓ ✓

Customize accessibility preferences with an easy-to-use wizard ✓ ✓ ✓

Check a document for possible accessibility problems ✓

Set high-contrast colors for better visibility ✓ ✓ ✓

Enable large type display by setting text to reﬂow through pages ✓ ✓ ✓

Provide a reading order for pages or columns of text ✓

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES For IT tools that deploy and extend Adobe Acrobat across the organization, visit www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/it.html

Organize Adobe PDF documents—Quickly and easily ﬁnd a list of Adobe PDF documents you have recently opened. View them as thumbnails, and drag and drop ﬁles into related collections.

Adobe Systems Incorporated 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704 USA

Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, Adobe LiveCycle, the Adobe PDF logo, PostScript, and Reader are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. AutoCAD is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Autodesk, Inc., in the USA and/or other countries. GeoTrust is a registered trademark of GeoTrust, Inc. Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Any reference to Custom Communications and its logo is for demonstration purposes only and is not intended to refer to any actual organization.