Adobe® Acrobat® X Pro software lets you deliver professional PDF communications. Create and edit PDF files with rich media included, share information more securely, and gather feedback more efficiently. Adobe® Acrobat® Pro software is the advanced way for business professionals to create, combine, control, and deliver more secure, high-quality Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection. Assemble electronic or paper files - even Web sites, engineering drawings, and e-mail - into reliable PDF documents that are easy to share with others using free Adobe Reader. Manage document reviews, synthesizing feedback from multiple reviewers while preserving document format and integrity. Extend commenting capabilities to anyone using Adobe Reader. Windows users can design intelligent Adobe PDF forms that include business logic, such as calculations and data validations, to help increase the accuracy of data collection while reducing the costs of manual data entry.
Top features in Acrobat Pro:
• PDF file conversion. Create PDF documents from any application that prints, including one-button conversion from Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, and Access, as well as Firefox and Lotus Notes — without ever leaving your authoring application.
• Scanning to PDF. Scan and convert paper documents and forms to PDF. Make scanned text searchable automatically with OCR, and then check and fix suspected errors. Text can be exported for reuse in other applications
• HTML to PDF. With a single click from within Internet Explorer or Firefox, capture web pages as PDF files, keeping all links intact. Convert only a portion of the page by selecting just the content you want.
• Email to PDF. Handle email-based communication more efficiently and simplify email search and retrieval. Archive emails or email folders from Microsoft Outlook or IBM Lotus Notes with one-button ease.
Export and edit PDF files
Easily edit PDF files and quickly export PDFs to Word or Excel documents. Spend less time rekeying information and more time reusing content. Use Acrobat X to reduce errors, improve productivity, and finish projects faster.
• PDF to Word. Save PDF files as Word documents with improved preservation of formatting and layouts. Relative positioning of tables, images, and even multicolumn text is preserved, as well as page, paragraph, and font attributes.
• PDF to Excel. Expedite reuse of content by converting PDF document data to Excel file formats. Even select a portion of a PDF page and export it to an editable format.
• Editing PDF files. Quickly and easily edit PDF documents without going back to the original source files. Save time by making simple changes to text and images directly within PDF files. Remove, reorder, and rotate PDF pages.
• Printing preparation. Reduce errors and delays at the printer. Preview, preflight, correct, and prepare PDF files for high-end print production and digital publishing.
Combine files from multiple applications
No need to fill people's inboxes with multiple emails and attachments. Create and deliver professional-looking PDF files that are simple to send, open, view, and navigate.
• PDF Portfolio assembly. Quickly assemble a wide range of file types — including audio, video, and rich media content — into a polished, organized PDF Portfolio using the new PDF Portfolio Wizard.
• PDF Portfolio customization. Easily customize PDF Portfolios with included layouts, visual themes, and color palettes. Add corporate logos and colors to reflect your branding. Import custom PDF Portfolio layouts and themes developed by third-party developers and designers.
• Rich media. Quickly bring ideas to life through rich, interactive documents. Insert audio, Flash Player compatible video, and interactive media into PDF files, for seamless playback in Adobe Reader X or Reader 9.
• Attaching native files. Make sure source files are simple to locate, access, and archive. Attach them to any PDF document in their original, native formats, ensuring a more complete document of record.
Increase productivity and process consistency
Use innovative productivity-enhancing software features to simplify complex projects, prepare and present high-quality content, and achieve better results.
• Action Wizard. Automate routine, multistep tasks into a guided Action. Create, manage, execute, and share a sequence of frequently used steps that can be applied to a single PDF or batches of files.
• Quick Tools. Quickly access the tools you use most — from your favorite PDF document editing tools to your most-often used comment and markup tools — by adding them to the Quick Tools area.
• Version comparison. 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.
• Integration with Microsoft SharePoint. Work seamlessly with PDF files in Microsoft SharePoint. Access SharePoint from any Acrobat Open or Save dialog box. Open PDF files from SharePoint for viewing. Check them out for editing, and then check them back in (Windows only).
Streamline online document reviews
Gather feedback efficiently and accelerate approvals. Use shared online document reviews and PDF comments to get — and keep — everyone on the same page from project start to finish.
• Commenting tools. Review and mark up PDF files using a complete set of familiar commenting tools, including sticky note and highlighter tools, lines, and stamps.
• Online document reviews. Gain the feedback you need, faster, through easy-to-manage, shared document reviews that allow participants to see and build on one another’s comments. Easily track progress and participation, add reviewers, and email updates or reminders.
• Extending Reader functionality. Enable Adobe Reader X or Reader 9 users to participate in shared reviews, fill and save forms, and digitally sign and approve PDF documents — regardless of platform or operating system.
• Commenting tool pane. Access markup tools and view comments from a single, unified tool pane. View all comments in a searchable list that can be filtered and sorted by page, author, and date.
Collect data with fillable PDF forms
Create, distribute, and track easy-to-use, interactive PDF forms that look like familiar paper forms — without asking IT for help.
• Form Wizard. Easily create dynamic, fillable PDF forms from paper or existing electronic files. Automatically convert static fields to fillable ones with the Form Wizard.
• Adobe Reader support. Enable Adobe Reader users (Reader 9 or X only) to fill and save forms — regardless of platform or operating system.
• Distribution and tracking. Distribute forms, track status, and compile results to expedite more accurate information collection. Use services at Acrobat.com to distribute and collect forms.
• Analyzing data. Streamline data reporting and analysis. Automatically compile form data in a single document or view. Filter responses as required. Easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis.
Protect PDF files and documents
Simple-to-use security features enable you to protect sensitive information. Use PDF passwords, digital signatures, and redaction to build electronic processes you can trust.
• Digital signatures. Digitally sign PDF documents, or add document timestamps. Add certified digital signatures to help recipients validate document authenticity and integrity.
• Enabling Reader users to sign. Enable Adobe Reader X or Reader 9 users to digitally sign PDF documents and forms or add document timestamps.
• Passwords and permissions. Use passwords to help control access to your PDF documents. Apply permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering. Save passwords and permissions as security policies that can be easily applied to new PDF files.
• Permanent information removal. Use redaction tools to permanently delete sensitive information, including specific text and illustrations. Easily sanitize documents with one click, finding and deleting hidden information such as metadata, annotations, attachments, form fields, layers, and bookmarks.
Read, search, and share PDF files
Enable anyone, anywhere, to view, search, and print PDF files using free Adobe Reader® software. Share PDF files with confidence, knowing colleagues and customers will be able to see your work exactly as intended — across file formats, platforms, browsers, and devices.
• Optimized viewing mode. Maximize your screen for optimal reading and presentation of PDF files with the new Reading Mode. Menus and panels disappear, and a transparent floating toolbar appears, to help you navigate PDF files more easily.
• Online file sharing. Use Adobe SendNow online services from within Acrobat to send, share, and track large files without the headaches of email size restrictions, FTP sites, and costly overnight services.
ACROBAT AND ADOBE READER 10.0.1 RELEASE NOTES
Security
• Numerous vulnerability fixes and security enhancements have gone into this release.
• Protected Mode enhancements (Reader on Windows with Protected Mode enabled):
• Reader is now compatible with McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise 8.7.0i.
• Copying to the clipboard now works.
• Entrust security software can be installed.
• PDF files in a shared location can be opened in a distributed file system.
• Support has been added for previewing Office 2007 Microsoft Excel content in a portfolio.
• See also QTP Integration.
SCCM Deployment Support
• This release delivers the first set of SCUP catalogs in support of SCCM deployments. Download the needed files
Flash
• This release installs an updated Flash Player.
QTP Integration
• QTP performance is enhanced for certain forms.
• Reader with Protected Mode on supports recording an attempt to enter data into a non-existing form field.
• Reader with Protected Mode on supports recording data entry operations (via keyboard) in a field when the focus from the field is changed directly to another field inside the PDF.
Digital Signatures
• Acrobat stability is improved when opening a signed PDF file.
• Saving a signed file is now possible in Safari
Bug fixes
2761507 Stability of 3D part rotations is improved.
2758553 Acrobat prints 2D markups for the current view instead of all the markups.
2753379 PMIs are no longer hidden by the section plane.
2791093 Reader is now compatible with McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise 8.7.0i when Protected Mode is enabled.
2779278 Runtime error on trying to open a PDF using double click.
2774671 Reader: when printing with Protected Mode enabled and "Choose paper source by PDF page size" = ON, data in the 2nd page is cut off in printing.
2774271 Acrobat may crashe when the multimedia chart is forced to reflow to the next page.
2774194 Reader now configures Mac’s "com.adobe.acrobat.pdfviewer.plist.”
2774170 Full MAC Reader re-install in repair mode fails with error "Found higher version of Adobe Reader in the installation location. Installation will terminate."
2774086 A Review workflow continuously asks for resources from Acrobat.com in spite of Acrobat.com responding with a 304.
2772059 MAC: Patching Acrobat X fails if Acrobat 9 or Acrobat 8 is patched before patching Acrobat X.
2771483 Acrobat reverts to English after applying the quarterly patch for localized builds.
2780566 Intermittent crash observed in DigSig.api when navigating through Preferences in Reader.
2755901 Linearized PDF (OptimizePDF) option should be the default "true" while creating a Action (.sequ) file.
2752142 Win only: Reader crashes after choosing one of the options from the Security Warning dialog that asks user for the permission to connect to a website.
2750883 AUM-Check for Updates doesn't work for Acrobat\Reader 9 if RX is installed.
2749799 PDF file content will disappear and Acrobat will crash when exiting after filling data and saving the file in a Rights Management Security PDF file that has a watermark .
2749793 Full Reader for Macintosh is not showing proper version number in file name.
2745625 Reader crashes when choosing "Send" to desktop email application when returning filled form if email client is set to Lotus Notes, the distribution originated from Standard/Pro, and the file name is Unicode.
2742895 Crash after copying text from a comment and scrolling to the next page when data already exists on the clipboard
