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Editorial Review:

With Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard, you'll have an essential business information management tool that no business should be without. It enables professionals to reliably create Adobe PDF documents from Microsoft Office, Outlook, Internet Explorer, or any application that prints. Easily convert and optimize documents, spreadsheets, e-mails, and websites to more secure Adobe PDF files that preserve the formatting and integrity of the original files. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader software. Protect sensitive information with passwords and permissions, and conduct collaborative document reviews by e-mail or server. Enhanced OCR capabilities - Scan paper more accurately to generate searchable PDF documents Take advantage of improved functionality for saving Adobe PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables Take advantage of enhanced review and markup tools for easier, more accurate placement and resizing of markup items Create documents in PDF/A, the new ISO standard for long-term archiving of electronic documents

Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard for Windows software enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution and collaboration. Combine files from multiple applications, such as text files, spreadsheets, presentations, and web pages, into a single, polished Adobe PDF document. Protect sensitive information with passwords and permissions, and conductcollaborative document reviews by e-mail or server.

Create and share Adobe PDF documents
Create an Adobe PDF document from Microsoft Office, Outlook, Internet Explorer, or any application that prints. Easily convert and optimize documents, spreadsheets, e-mails, and websites to more secure Adobe PDF files that preserve the formatting and integrity of the original files. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Acrobat lets you combine files from multiple applications into a single Adobe PDF document.

Combine files from multiple applications
Easily assemble documents, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mails, web pages, and forms into a single Adobe PDF document. Present files in the order you want them, regardless of file type, paper size, or orientation.

Streamline document feedback and reviews
Accelerate feedback and approvals with robust tools for initiating, managing, and tracking document reviews. Reviewers can use familiar commenting tools--including sticky notes, stamps, highlighter, pencil, strikethrough, callout, dimension lines, shapes, and clouds--for review and markup of Adobe PDF files. Merge feedback into a single file to reconcile comments.

Apply document security and controls

Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source.

Control access to and use of Adobe PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity. Set document permissions to define whether a file can be printed or changed. Apply passwords to help restrict document access. Digitally sign documents to manage their status and help prevent changes. Certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document control policies to precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard

• Combine multiple files into one PDF package -- Combine multiple files into a searchable, sortable PDF package that maintains the individual security settings and digital signatures of each included PDF document.
• Manage shared reviews -- Easily conduct shared reviews -- without IT assistance -- that allow review participants to see one another's comments and track the status of the review.
• Archive Microsoft Outlook e-mail in PDF -- Configure Acrobat to automatically archive e-mail in Microsoft Outlook for easy search and retrieval.
• Archive Lotus Notes e-mail -- Convert e-mail in Lotus Notes to Adobe PDF to facilitate searching, archiving, and retrieval.
• Take advantage of a new, intuitive user interface -- Complete tasks more quickly with a streamlined user interface, new customizable toolbars, and a "Getting Started" page to visually direct you to commonly used features.
• Remove hidden information -- Inspect PDF documents for hidden information, including metadata, annotations, attachments, form fields, layers, and bookmarks, and selectively delete as needed.

With a scanner and Acrobat's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, you can turn stacks of paper documents into easily searchable electronic PDF archives.

• Enjoy enhanced OCR capabilities -- More accurately scan paper to generate searchable Adobe PDF documents with the newly enhanced OCR engine.
• Save in Microsoft Word -- Take advantage of improved functionality for saving Adobe PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables.
• Use enhanced review and markup tools -- Take advantage of enhancements to review tools, including a single, organized toolbar and easier, more accurate placement and resizing of markup items.
• Create in PDF/A for archiving -- Create documents in PDF/A, the ISO standard for long-term archiving of electronic documents.

Product Feature Comparison	Acrobat 8 Standard	Acrobat 8 Professional
Create PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Office, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Access, and Publisher as well as Lotus Notes (Windows only)	x	x
Combine files from multiple applications into a single PDF document	x	x
Conduct collaborative document reviews that allow review participants to see one another's comments	x	x
Protect PDF documents with passwords and 128-bit encryption	x	x
Enable Adobe Reader (version 7.0 or 8) users to participate in document reviews, digitally sign documents, and fill and save PDF forms (for ad-hoc forms distribution and data collection for up to 500 people)		x
Create PDF documents with one-button ease from AutoCAD, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Project (Windows only)		x
Quickly and easily create high-quality, compact PDF files from AutoCAD designs that preserve layers, scale, page layout, and page size (Windows only)		x
Create advanced Adobe PDF forms with included Adobe LiveCycle Designer software (Windows only)		x

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0

Adobe Acrobat Standard 8.0:

It's a great product for those who need to view pdf's and make minor changes to files. However, for those who work in graphic design, it is limited in some aspects, but still a very good product. There are areas that are very useful in designing and receiving graphic files from those who don't have the Adobe Creative Suites. The program reads all pdf files easily and pulls them right up without any problems. As old a version as it is, I'm glad I was able to purchase it from the seller through Amazon. The... more info

Adobe 8:

Product wasn't in original packaging, missing the books. End users like that sort of thing.
Other than that product was shipped in a timely fashion and works.

Shame on Adobe:

Like many other Amazon customers, I too have had serious difficulty with Adobe Acrobat conflicting with other programs. In fact I phoned Adobe's corporate office seeking help in rectifying the issue only to be told that they we're unaware of Acrobat causing any issues with other software. Well, clearly this was a disingenuous response. Based on the sheer number of similar posts here, how could they not know about this problem?
In Adobe's case, bigger doesn't mean better. But you certainly get what you... more info

absolutely hated it:

the first reason why we bought this program is to basically make pdfs! It works fine after you install the product but after a week or something I could not make a pdf on a word document anymore. I had to reinstall everything for it to work. then after a week it would not create the pdfs again. I wish I bought the 7 instead

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