Adobe releases Acrobat 8, previews Photoshop CS3

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Adobe releases Acrobat 8, previews Photoshop CS3

by Ryan Carter Sep 21st 2006

Adobe recently previewed its new Photoshop CS3 product at the Photoshop World conference. There aren't too many details available on it yet, except that it will have Macromedia technology of some sort integrated with existing Adobe technologies. Adobe also starting taking pre-orders for Acrobat 8 (should ship in mid-November) as part of the Creative Suite 2.3 package. Some new features of Acrobat 8 Pro are:

Easy PDF creation (is that really a NEW feature?)
Scan to PDF with OCR
Convert email to PDF
Capture website to PDF
Create PDF/A and PDF/X documents
Combine files from multiple apps
Managed shared reviews with comment tracking and printing
Password and permissions
Use digital signatures
Protect attachments with 128-bit encryption
Form templates and auto-filed recognition

Adobe can only benefit by letting Macromedia technology seep into every crack of its already killer software. The two companies both have the best stuff out there in many respects, so it will be good see how this "two are better than one" idea plays out.

Tags: acrobat, adobe, Creative Suite 2.3, CreativeSuite2.3, PDF, Photoshop CS3, PhotoshopCs3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Euan said 9:07PM on 9-21-2006

Unfortunately this does mean more of the Adobe bloat found on their fantastic software. I was amazed when Cool Edit 2/Audition 1.5 went to over 300MB for version 2.

Andy King said 2:56PM on 9-25-2006

ryan,

hi, we review Adobe's new Acrobat 8 Professional (pre-release) for performance against PDF Enhancer 3.1. The new Acrobat features faster operations, smaller PDFs, a new interface, and the ability to combine different types of files into one PDF.

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/pdf/

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