New Acrobat 6.0 Professional is a major upgrade
The new Acrobat 6.0 line — Acrobat 6.0 Professional, Acrobat 6.0 Standard and Acrobat Elements — offers different levels of functionality to address specific needs. The most comprehensive, Acrobat 6.0 Professional, is the product for the printing and graphic arts industries. It is designed to work with complex, graphically rich layouts to improve the process of document exchange, review and archive.
Features of Acrobat Professional include - One button PDF creation from AutoCAD, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Project (Windows only).
- Support from document layers in technical drawings
- Enhanced tools for printing, viewing and navigating of large format documents
- Built-in preflighting tools for print production.
Acrobat 6.0 Standard enables workgroups to simplify document reviews using intuitive tools and a new, task-based interface. Acrobat Elements is a volume-license-only product that allows enterprises to place inexpensive Adobe PDF creation capability on every desktop, enabling reliable document distribution.
Building on the ubiquity of free Adobe Reader software, and the strengths of Adobe PDF for document presentation and XML for data exchange, Adobe's desktop and server solutions provide integrated and actionable delivery of business-critical information to virtually any user inside or outside an organization.
The company also announced Adobe Reader 6.0 software (expected to be available in by the end of May 2003), an upgrade and re-naming of the widely distributed, free Acrobat Reader. Adobe Reader, which supports numerous desktop and mobile device platforms, is the definitive application for viewing, interacting with and printing Adobe PDF content ranging from business documents and forms to Photoshop® Album slide shows, eBooks, and embedded multimedia. Adobe Reader will be available free of charge as a download from Adobe.com by the end of May 2003. The company has distributed over half-a-billion copies of Acrobat reader since its 1993 introduction.
Pricing and Availability
Acrobat 6.0 Professional and Acrobat 6.0 Standard for Windows(r) 98 Second Edition (Acrobat 6.0 Standard only), Windows NT(r) Workstation 4.0 (with service pack 6), Windows 2000 Professional (with service pack 2), Windows XP Home, Professional and Tablet PC Editions, and Mac OS X.2.2, are expected to ship in English by the end of May 2003. Acrobat 6.0 Professional will be available for an estimated street price of A$949. Registered users of Acrobat 4.0 and Acrobat 5.0 can upgrade to Acrobat 6.0 Professional for an estimated street price of A$299.
Acrobat 6.0 Standard will be available for an estimated street price of A$599. Registered users of Acrobat 4.0 and Acrobat 5.0 can upgrade to Acrobat 6.0 Standard for an estimated street price of A$199. The products also will be available through Adobe's licensing programs.