Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0

Communicate and collaborate with the essential PDF solution. Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional software enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection.

Create and optimize 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, websites, and technical drawings into more secure Adobe PDF files that preserve the formatting and integrity of the original files. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader® software. Combine files from multiple applications Easily assemble documents, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mails, web pages, forms, CAD drawings, and diagrams into a single Adobe PDF document. Present files in your preferred order, regardless of file type, paper size, or orientation. Embed multimedia, 3D designs, audio, and video for a richer experience.

Enhance and extend document collaboration
Accelerate feedback and approvals with robust tools for initiating, managing, and tracking document reviews. Enable Adobe Reader¹ users to participate in document reviews with commenting tools. 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 PDF file to reconcile comments.

Streamline data collection with Adobe PDF forms
Automate manual entry and help reduce costly errors by managing information electronically with PDF forms. Easily create a wide range of electronic forms for distribution through e-mail or on the web. Enable users of free Adobe Reader¹ to fill and save forms. ² Capture and consolidate inbound data into spreadsheets or back-end systems.

Apply advanced document security and controls
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 and 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.

• Combine multiple files into a 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.
• Auto-recognize form fields
  Automatically locate form fields in static PDF documents and convert them to interactive fields that can be filled electronically by anyone using Adobe Reader software*. (Windows only)
• 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.
• Enable advanced features in Adobe Reader
  Enable anyone using free Adobe Reader software* to participate in document reviews, fill and save electronic forms offline†, and digitally sign documents.
• Permanently remove sensitive information
  Permanently remove metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and use redaction tools to permanently delete sensitive text, illustrations, or other content.
• Archive Microsoft Outlook e-mail in PDF
  Configure Acrobat 8 Professional to automatically archive e-mail in Microsoft Outlook for easy search and retrieval. (Windows only)
• Archive Lotus Notes e-mail
  Convert e-mail in Lotus Notes to Adobe PDF to facilitate searching, archiving, and retrieval. (Windows only)
• 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.
• Enjoy improved performance and support for AutoCAD
  More rapidly convert AutoCAD drawing files into compact, accurate PDF documents, without the need for the native desktop application.
• 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.