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Adobe launches Acrobat 9 and Acrobat.com online office suite
- ConnectNow: A web conferenceing tool that lets you share your desktop with others, chat, talk over a VoIP connection, or share files and mark up whiteboards.
- Share: Selectively share files with other users. Adobe Share lets you send files to a list of contacts, and lets the recipients view PDF image, and video files online.
- Create PDF: Seriously, do we need to tell you what this does?
- My Files: Store and organize up to 5GB of files online.
Adobe has also released Acrobat 9, an updated version of its desktop PDF reader. The biggest change in Acrobat 9 is support for embedded Flash, which means you might start finding PDF documents with embedded YouTube videos or other Flash content.
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Gihan said 10:44AM on 6-02-2008
I just acrobated all over by screen!
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LeeH said 11:21AM on 6-02-2008
Small correction: Adobe Reader is the desktop PDF reader. Acrobat is the program for manipulating PDF files (editing, merging, sharing, applying passwords etc.)
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Monkey said 11:43AM on 6-02-2008
And, although Acrobat may have been updated to version 9, Acrobat Reader is still being offered as version 8 right now.
Marco said 12:46PM on 6-02-2008
Too bad that their sign up form doesn't really work. Form says my mail address X@XXX.TLD is invalid. Already sent a support request to Adobe... but I never received an answer from Adobe in the past (other questions), so I doubt that I'll ever be able to use this service.
Anyway, just saw that they have a five free-PDF-conversations restriction. Makes this service look very bad, I think. Even if they would only allow ... let`s say ten conversations a day they would sure kick all the free online .doc to .pdf Ghostscript converters out of business lol
But some dreams never come true :-p
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Benjamin Wright said 1:35PM on 6-02-2008
Brad: Collaborative software environments like Acrobat.com and Zoho can create oceans of records on business interactions, negotiations and contracts. Those records can be relevant in a lawsuit. An issue businesses will face is whether to preserve those records under their record retention policies. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/02/collaboration-e-discovery-and-record.html
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Marco said 3:36PM on 6-02-2008
Ben, exactly! That's the thing why I was never able to understand why COMPANIES use hosted products.
If I would own a company I would develop collaboration software OR host collaboratiion software on MY servers and not somewhere else where I cannot control what's happenin with my files. Serious, I wonder how often the "Application hosting companies" copy our files... lol
But we'll see in 10 years when Google (for example) knows people from A-Z.. and people wonder where Google got the info from... ;-)
Brian Yuhnke said 2:50PM on 6-02-2008
Users are Limted to 3 people per Web Conference room. Honestly, how does one have a "full-fledged online web conference" with three people?!?!
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