Adobe Acrobat X Product Family

Adobe® Acrobat® X Product Family

Overview The X software family—Acrobat X Pro, Acrobat X Standard, Acrobat X Suite, and Adobe Reader® X—enables knowledge workers to collaborate more effectively using the next-generation of solutions with Acrobat Dynamic PDF. The Acrobat X family unites the power of software and online services to deliver better ways of connecting people, ideas, and information so you can take your work to the next level and accomplish more every day.

With Acrobat X, you can share work across file formats, platforms, and devices around the world and integrate rich media to interact and engage in entirely new ways. Easily combine multiple file types into one organized PDF Portfolio to deliver high impact, polished communications. Work together more effectively— inside and outside your organization—with easy-to-manage shared reviews. Create advanced forms to collect critical data, quickly and simply. Enhance your productivity every day with the control, security features, visual fidelity, and reliability you expect from Acrobat. Integrate your work with services at Acrobat. com to easily store and send documents and keep everyone on the latest version.

For a feature comparison table of the entire Acrobat X family, please turn to the last page of this document.

Acrobat X Pro: prepare, protect, and deliver professional PDF communications Primary benefits and users—Adobe Acrobat X Pro software enables knowledge workers to experience the full power of Acrobat Dynamic PDF to deliver next-generation PDF communications. Combine a wide variety of file types, including video, audio, and interactive media into a polished, professional PDF Portfolio. Gain the feedback you need, faster, through easy-to-manage electronic reviews. Create and distribute fillable PDF forms to collect critical data. Apply passwords and permissions to protect your work, and confidently store and share documents through easy-to-use services at Acrobat.com.

Key features • Assemble PDF Portfolios: Combine a wide range of file types into a polished, organized PDF Portfolio. Apply professionally designed layouts, visual themes, and color palettes. Easily add corporate logos and colors to reflect your branding. • Automate tasks with the Action Wizard: Save time and standardize processes by automating routine, multi-step tasks in a guided Action. Create, manage, execute, and share a sequence of frequently used steps that can be applied to single PDF files or batches of files. • Create interactive forms: Easily convert existing forms into fillable PDF forms with intelligent form field recognition, or design them yourself using included templates. Collect data quickly and export to spreadsheets for analysis. Track and manage responses. • Streamline document reviews: Provide team members with a complete set of comment and mark-up tools, so all can participate in shared document reviews using Adobe Reader* software. See and build on each other’s comments. Track progress and participation. • Permanently remove information: Easily find hidden information, including metadata, annotations, attachments, form fields, layers, and bookmarks, and delete as needed. Use redaction tools to permanently delete sensitive information, including specific text or illustrations. • Include rich media: Quickly bring ideas to life through rich, interactive documents. Insert audio, video compatible with ® Player, and interactive media into PDF files, for seamless playback in Adobe Reader.* • Compare PDF documents: Eliminate confusion and improve version control. Easily identify differences between two versions of a PDF file by having Acrobat analyze both files and highlight changes to text and images. • Comply with PDF and accessibility standards: Confirm that your documents conform to PDF/A, PDF/E, and PDF/X ISO standards, and fix those that do not. Check and adjust documents to ensure that they are accessible to people with disabilities. • Extend Adobe Reader: Enable Adobe Reader users to participate in shared reviews, fill and save forms, and digitally sign and approve PDF documents—regardless of platform or operating system. • Share files online at Acrobat.com: Use services at Acrobat.com to easily send large files with confidence. Upload documents into your online Workspaces at Acrobat.com to share files with individuals or teams inside or outside your organization.

Acrobat X Standard: reliably create and share PDF documents and forms Primary benefits and users—With Acrobat X Standard software (Microsoft® Windows® operating system), knowledge workers can reliably create and share PDF documents and forms. Scan documents to create searchable electronic files. Combine and organize multiple file types into a single PDF document. Work better with your team as you reliably share information with virtually anyone, anywhere. Use services at Acrobat.com to easily store and send documents and keep everyone on the latest version. And control who can view, print, copy, and revise your documents. All with the reliability and security features you expect.

Key features • Create PDF files: Convert documents to PDF from any application that prints, including one-button creation from Microsoft Office 2010 applications such as , Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, and Access, as well as Lotus Notes, Internet Explorer, and Firefox—without ever leaving your authoring application. • Improve scanning results: Scan and convert paper documents and forms to PDF. Automatically recognize text with optical character recognition (OCR) for archiving and searching within documents. Text can be copied for reuse in authoring applications. • Combine files: Combine content from multiple sources—including documents, spreadsheets, e-mails, web pages, scanned paper, and images—into a single PDF file that can be viewed by virtually anyone, anywhere using free Adobe Reader software. • Convert PDF files to Word or Excel: Reuse content from PDF documents to get a head start on new projects. Save PDF files as Microsoft Word or Excel files and retain layout, formatting, and tables. • Edit PDF files: Quickly and easily edit PDF documents without going back to the original source file. Save time by making simple changes to text directly in your PDF files. • Create fillable forms: Easily create fillable PDF forms from scanned paper documents and existing PDF, Microsoft Word, or Excel files. Automatically convert static fields to fillable ones. Track and manage responses. Export data to a spreadsheet for analysis. • Streamline document reviews: Review and mark up PDF documents quickly. Use digital versions of familiar commenting tools, including Sticky Note and Highlighter. Then submit your feedback electronically. • Protect sensitive information: Help prevent information from getting into the wrong hands. Use passwords to control access to your PDF documents, and use permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering of PDF files. • Use electronic approvals: Speed up document workflows and reduce paper consumption. Digitally sign and certify PDF documents using digital IDs. Enable recipients to validate document authenticity and integrity using certified documents. • Share files online at Acrobat.com: Use services at Acrobat.com with Acrobat to store and send large documents to anyone you choose, inside and outside your organization.

Acrobat X Suite: discover the power of Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop® to create exceptional PDF experiences Primary benefits and users—Introducing Adobe Acrobat X Suite. Maximize the power of Acrobat Dynamic PDF to deliver breakthrough business communications. Quickly capture, edit, and combine digital content—right from your desktop. Touch up and enhance digital images. Create captivating rich media presentations, complete with video clips, screen recordings, narrations, transitions, and clickable navigation. Easily create fillable forms from scratch or a variety of included business templates. Assemble it all in a polished PDF Portfolio that anyone can experience with free Adobe Reader* software.

Key features • PDF Portfolios: Combine a wide range of file types into a polished, organized PDF Portfolio with Acrobat X Pro. Apply layouts, visual themes, and color palettes that can be branded with your corporate logo and colors. • Edit digital images: Add high-quality visuals to your business communications with unprecedented speed and control with ® CS5. Crop, resize, retouch, and color-correct photos. Remove backgrounds. Erase image elements. Make colors more vibrant and add special effects. • Create and deliver rich-media demonstrations with Adobe Captivate® 5: Rapidly combine Adobe Acrobat X Suite: audio, video, screen recordings, slides, and more into rich media experiences. Simultaneously • Adobe Acrobat X Pro record narration and on-screen actions, including mouse movements and keyboard activity, to • Adobe Photoshop CS5 create engaging presentations—no programming expertise required. • Adobe Captivate 5 • Adobe Presenter 7 • Turn presentations into rich-media experiences with Adobe Presenter 7: Quickly transform static • Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES2 PowerPoint slides into compelling, self-running presentations. With just a few clicks, you can easily • Adobe Media Encoder CS5 add narration, videos, and interactivity to make your business presentations look—and sound— better than ever. • Create fillable PDF forms: Easily create professional business forms with Adobe LiveCycle® Designer ES2. Choose from a library of PDF form templates—including invoices, employment applications, expense reports, and supply requisitions—or design your own forms from scratch. • Convert video formats: Convert a wide variety of video formats into the compatible format with Adobe Media Encoder. Add videos to any PDF file to enable easy playback using Adobe Reader*—no proprietary media player required. • Manage electronic reviews: Provide team members with a complete set of comment and mark-up tools using Acrobat X Pro. Enable all reviewers to participate using free Adobe Reader* software. See and build on each other’s comments. Track review progress and participation. • Share files online at Acrobat.com: Use services at Acrobat.com to easily send large files with confidence. Upload documents into your online Workspaces at Acrobat.com to share files with individuals or teams inside or outside your organization.

Adobe Reader X Primary benefits and users—Adobe Reader X software is free client software that enhances PDF viewing across the organization while simplifying IT management and security. With Adobe Reader X users can read PDF Portfolios and PDF files from virtually anywhere, including mobile devices.

Key features • Provide a better PDF viewing experience: Deliver improved access to PDF files with a new, streamlined user interface and better web browser integration. Native support for Adobe Flash technology enables users to reliably experience embedded multimedia without additional software.* • Work together more effectively: With Adobe Reader X, users can easily participate in PDF-based workflows initiated from Acrobat X software and Adobe LiveCycle® ES. Now, use new Acrobat.com services including SendNow to send large files with ease. • Comment on PDF files: Starting in Adobe Reader X, Sticky Note and Highlighter tools are always available to users. • Empower users to reliably view PDF files from anywhere: Provide your organization with a robust, ISO 32000-compliant PDF viewer that displays PDF files with complete visual fidelity and accuracy. Ensure a consistent experience across operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Expand PDF access to mobile devices with free Adobe Reader for Android and additional platforms to be announced. • Reduce IT risk with enhanced Reader security: Help safeguard systems and data with Protected Mode in Reader X, opening files within an isolated, sandboxed instance of the application. Reader X adds further protection by leveraging multiple layers of the Microsoft Windows security architecture, including support for Data Execution Prevention and Address Space Layout Randomization. Manage the execution of specific JavaScript API calls using the JavaScript Blacklist Framework. • Easily deploy and manage: Quickly configure and deploy Reader X across your organization with support for Windows Group Policy Objects and tight integration with Microsoft SCCM and SCUP. With support for 30 languages and multiple platforms, standardize on a single PDF viewer that is scalable across your entire organization. Simplify your core desktop image with the MUI version of Reader for Windows, enabling a single install for multiple languages.

Feature Adobe Acrobat X Acrobat X Acrobat X Reader X Standard Pro Suite Read, search, and share PDF files View, search, and print PDF files • • • • Store and share documents and forms using services at Acrobat.com • • • • Convert to PDF Create PDF documents from any application that prints, including one-button conversion from Microsoft Word, Excel, • • • PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Publisher, and Access1 Scan paper documents into PDF and automatically recognize text with optical character recognition (OCR) • • • Capture web pages as interactive PDF files for review and archiving from Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox with one-button ease1 • • • Archive emails or email folders from Microsoft Outlook or IBM® Lotus Notes with one-button ease1 • • • Create PDF documents with one-button ease from Autodesk® AutoCAD®, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Project1 • • Export and edit PDF files Save PDF files as Microsoft Word or Excel files, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables • • • Quickly and easily edit PDF files by making simple changes to text • • • Preview, preflight, correct, and prepare PDF files for high-end print production and digital publishing • • Add rich media to PDF files Insert audio, Adobe Flash Player compatible video, and interactive media for direct playback in Acrobat and Adobe Reader2 • • Convert a wide variety of video formats for seamless playback in PDF with Adobe Media Encoder • Edit and enhance photos to add to your PDF communications with Adobe Photoshop CS5, the industry standard for image editing • Quickly transform static PowerPoint slides into compelling, interactive PDF presentations with Adobe Presenter • Rapidly combine screen recordings, narration, video, slides, and more into a rich media experience with Adobe Captivate • Combine files from multiple applications Combine content from multiple sources—including documents, spreadsheets, and emails—into a single PDF file • • • Assemble a wide range of content into a polished PDF Portfolio with customizable layouts, visual themes, and color palettes • • Increase productivity and process consistency Easily access the tools you use most with the customizable Quick Tools area • • • • Integrate with Microsoft SharePoint to open, edit, and save PDF files1 • • • Automate multistep tasks and share with others using the new Action Wizard • • Compare and highlight the differences between two versions of a PDF document • • Streamline document reviews Comment on PDF files with highlighter and sticky note tools • • • • Review documents with a complete set of commenting tools using a simple, unified tool pane Ο • • • Manage and track shared document reviews that allow review participants to see one another’s comments • • • Sort and filter comments by author, date, page, or type and track which comments have been reviewed • • • • Enable Adobe Reader users to participate in reviews with complete set of commenting tools2 • • Export comments into Microsoft Word as markups that can be accepted or rejected with the Track Changes tool1 • • • Collect data with fillable PDF forms Easily create fillable forms from paper or existing files using the Form Wizard • • • Create professional forms from templates or design them from scratch with included Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES21 • • Distribute PDF forms to collect information and track their status3 • • • For more information Export form data to a spreadsheet for reporting and analysis • • • Enable Adobe Reader users to fill in and save forms • • • Product details: Protect PDF files and content www.adobe.com/acrobat Digitally sign PDF documents or add document timestamps Ο • • • Apply passwords and permissions to PDF documents to limit access or restrict printing, copying, and altering content • • • Remove hidden information with one click, including metadata, annotations, attachments, form fields, layers, and bookmarks • • • Ο When enabled by Acrobat X Add certified digital signatures to enable recipients to validate document authenticity and integrity • • • 1 Microsoft Windows only Enable Adobe Reader users to digitally sign PDF documents and forms or add document timestamps1 • • 2 Requires Adobe Reader 9 or later Permanently delete sensitive information, including specific text or illustrations, with redaction tools • • 3 For ad hoc form distribution and Comply with PDF and accessibility standards Confirm that your documents conform to ISO standards PDF/X, PDF/E, and PDF/A (including PDF/A-2), and fix those that do not data collection for up to 500 people • • • Check and adjust documents to help ensure that they are accessible to people with disabilities • • Comply with PDF digital signature standards, including ETSI PAdES Parts 2, 3, and 4 Ο • • •

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