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November 21, 2004
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 on its Way and Includes RSS
It seems like only yesterday that Adobe Acrobat 6.0 was released. In fact, it was shipped mid-2003. My, my, software ages quickly these days! Adobe announced last week that version 7.0 will be released by the end of the year. Both PlanetPDF and PDFZone have already reviewed the new functionality offered by 7.0.
Interesting...you'll be able to use Acrobat 7.0 to subscribe to RSS feeds using the "Tracker" tool. This I've got to see! But unfortunately the only mention I could find of this particular feature was in the first part of the Planet PDF Product Tour. It goes without saying that it will be a simple matter to convert those RSS feeds to PDF. It's unclear whether both Standard and Professional will include the Tracker tool.
Adobe continues to improves Acrobat collaborative features, especially in the 7.0 professional edition. According to PlanetPDF, Acrobat Professional 7.0 allows you to give users of the free Adobe Reader permission to use all the commenting and review tools that were previously only available to Acrobat Professional and Standard users, thereby greatly expanding the potential pool of collaborators.
The select tool options are clearer, which will be a nice improvement. The text options were previously a bit difficult to find.
Look for better integration with Outlook in both the Standard and Professional's versions. They both allow you to save multiple emails, with attachments, or even complete folders, to PDF.
Perhaps best of all, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 will load faster, thereby addressing a major complaint of Acrobat users.
But what about the simple stuff like printing bookmarks and creating bookmarks automatically when combining files?? Information on that level of detail is still unavailable. We probably won't know until we have 7.0 in hand and can try it out.
That's not all, but I won't repeat all the features here. For more information see:
Planet PDF - Acrobat 7 Product Family Feature Matrix
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 - Planet PDF Product Tour
Adobe beefs up Acrobat Reader in version 7.0 (PDF Zone)
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