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• Deliver the richest, most engaging PDF communications anytime, anywhere
• Collaborate through shared document reviews, help protect and control sensitive information--quickly gain the input you need to efficiently develop and complete work
• Scan or convert existing documents to fillable PDF forms that are easy to complete, ensuring the data you receive is accurate and useful

• Business publishing and marketing materials solution helps you create and distribute effective publications for print, Web, and e-mail
• Offers a library of hundreds of customizable design templates or blank publications, including newsletters, brochures, flyers, postcards, Web sites, e-mail formats, and more
• Publisher Tasks gives you help with common procedures; the enhanced Catalog Merge helps produce frequently updated materials such as datasheets, catalogs, or price lists by merging text and images from a database

• Deliver the richest, most engaging PDF communications anytime, anywhere
• Collaborate through shared document reviews, help protect and control sensitive information--quickly gain the input you need to efficiently develop and complete work
• Includes professional templates for PDF portfolios, Adobe Reader review and commenting, LiveCycle Designer ES for dynamic forms

Communicate and collaborate more easily and securely with Adobe PDF. For a more in-depth comparison, download a feature comparison (PDF format).

Deliver professional documents
Easily organize content from a variety of sources--including documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web pages--in a single searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your company logo and colors. Quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Create and manage forms
Simplify the creation and completion of forms to efficiently analyze and use data. Convert Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF forms with automatic recognition of fillable fields. Or use Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES software, a professional form design tool included with Acrobat 9 Pro software, to further customize and automate dynamic XML forms. Extend Acrobat functionality to Reader users so virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. And easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

Manage document reviews
Accelerate the exchange of ideas with colleagues, extended teams, and customers. Through easy-to-manage electronic document reviews, participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are being made, so you can quickly gain the input and consensus you need to efficiently develop and complete work. Enable virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software to participate in reviews, and use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Combine multiple files in a searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Brand it with your logo and include descriptions to guide recipients through the contents.

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

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

Help protect sensitive information
Control access to and use of 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. Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive information. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document security policies to precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.

Top reasons to buy Acrobat 9 Pro

Deliver a compelling branded experience using PDF Portfolios
Bring multiple files together in a single organized and interactive PDF Portfolio. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your logo and include descriptions to guide recipients through the contents.

Help protect your documents
Use passwords to control access to PDF documents. Use permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering. Save passwords and permissions as security policies that can be easily applied to new PDF files.

Easily create and manage electronic forms
Build dynamic forms, distribute and track forms and responses, and easily export data for analysis and reporting.

Manage and track electronic document reviews
Gain the input you need through interactive document reviews that enable participants to see and build on other reviewers' comments, which can be sorted by author, date, or page. Use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Include Adobe Reader users
Enable users of free Adobe Reader software to digitally sign documents, participate in shared document reviews, and save forms locally. By extending Acrobat functionality to Reader users, virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate.

Synchronize document views
Provide clarity and enhance discussion by e-mailing a PDF document and walking recipients through it in real time by controlling the exact page view they see.

Remove sensitive information
Use redaction tools to black out sensitive text, illustrations, or other information, permanently deleting the content from the PDF document. Inspect PDF documents for metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and remove before distributing to others.

Compare PDF documents
Automatically highlight the differences between two versions of a PDF document, including text and images, so you can quickly and easily identify what has changed.

Improve print processes
Help control costs and reduce errors with automated output controls to preview, preflight, correct, and prepare PDF files for high-end print production and digital publishing.

Create and validate accessible PDF documents
Ensure your PDF documents are optimized for people with disabilities. Quickly evaluate, correct, and automatically tag PDF documents for optimized accessibility and reflow.

• Deliver the richest, most engaging PDF communications anytime, anywhere
• Collaborate through shared document reviews, help protect and control sensitive information--quickly gain the input you need to efficiently develop and complete work
• Includes professional templates for PDF portfolios, Adobe Reader review and commenting, LiveCycle Designer ES for dynamic forms

Communicate and collaborate more easily and securely with Adobe PDF. For a more in-depth comparison, download a feature comparison (PDF format).

Deliver professional documents
Easily organize content from a variety of sources--including documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web pages--in a single searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your company logo and colors. Quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Create and manage forms
Simplify the creation and completion of forms to efficiently analyze and use data. Convert Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF forms with automatic recognition of fillable fields. Or use Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES software, a professional form design tool included with Acrobat 9 Pro software, to further customize and automate dynamic XML forms. Extend Acrobat functionality to Reader users so virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. And easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

Manage document reviews
Accelerate the exchange of ideas with colleagues, extended teams, and customers. Through easy-to-manage electronic document reviews, participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are being made, so you can quickly gain the input and consensus you need to efficiently develop and complete work. Enable virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software to participate in reviews, and use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Combine multiple files in a searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Brand it with your logo and include descriptions to guide recipients through the contents.

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

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

Help protect sensitive information
Control access to and use of 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. Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive information. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document security policies to precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.

Top reasons to buy Acrobat 9 Pro

Deliver a compelling branded experience using PDF Portfolios
Bring multiple files together in a single organized and interactive PDF Portfolio. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your logo and include descriptions to guide recipients through the contents.

Help protect your documents
Use passwords to control access to PDF documents. Use permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering. Save passwords and permissions as security policies that can be easily applied to new PDF files.

Easily create and manage electronic forms
Build dynamic forms, distribute and track forms and responses, and easily export data for analysis and reporting.

Manage and track electronic document reviews
Gain the input you need through interactive document reviews that enable participants to see and build on other reviewers' comments, which can be sorted by author, date, or page. Use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Include Adobe Reader users
Enable users of free Adobe Reader software to digitally sign documents, participate in shared document reviews, and save forms locally. By extending Acrobat functionality to Reader users, virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate.

Synchronize document views
Provide clarity and enhance discussion by e-mailing a PDF document and walking recipients through it in real time by controlling the exact page view they see.

Remove sensitive information
Use redaction tools to black out sensitive text, illustrations, or other information, permanently deleting the content from the PDF document. Inspect PDF documents for metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and remove before distributing to others.

Compare PDF documents
Automatically highlight the differences between two versions of a PDF document, including text and images, so you can quickly and easily identify what has changed.

Improve print processes
Help control costs and reduce errors with automated output controls to preview, preflight, correct, and prepare PDF files for high-end print production and digital publishing.

Create and validate accessible PDF documents
Ensure your PDF documents are optimized for people with disabilities. Quickly evaluate, correct, and automatically tag PDF documents for optimized accessibility and reflow.

• Deliver the richest, most engaging PDF communications anytime, anywhere
• Collaborate through shared document reviews, help protect and control sensitive information--quickly gain the input you need to efficiently develop and complete work
• Scan or convert existing documents to fillable PDF forms that are easy to complete, ensuring the data you receive is accurate and useful

Communicate and collaborate more easily and securely with Adobe PDF. For a more in-depth comparison, download a feature comparison (PDF format).

Reliably share documents
Create and distribute PDF files that preserve the formatting of the originals. Combine documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web pages in a single PDF file. Quickly organize content and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Quickly create forms
Use the new Form Wizard to create forms from paper or electronic documents. Scan or convert existing documents to PDF forms that can be filled in electronically, ensuring the data you receive is accurate and useful. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. Easily export form data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

With fillable PDF forms, you can collect information electronically to eliminate manual data re-entry and reduce costly errors. Enable virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software to fill in and save PDF forms locally.

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

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

Easily exchange feedback
Efficiently review documents and provide input with familiar commenting tools. Quickly gain the input you need to efficiently develop and complete work. With easy-to-manage electronic reviews, participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are being made.

Help protect sensitive information
Control access to PDF files with document passwords and permissions. 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.

Top reasons to buy Acrobat 9 Standard

Create and reliably share PDF documents
Easily convert any document that prints to PDF to preserve formatting and help ensure document integrity.

Combine content in a single PDF file
Assemble documents, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, and web pages in a single compressed PDF file to easily share with others.

Help protect your documents
Use passwords to control access to PDF documents. Use permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering.

Easily create and track PDF forms
Convert Microsoft Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF forms. Form fields are automatically recognized and converted to fillable fields. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. Easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

Easily review documents
Use familiar commenting tools--such as sticky notes, a highlighter, and stamps--to provide feedback. Comments can be sorted by author, date, or page.

Sign documents digitally
Use digital signatures to approve documents, which helps eliminate the costly and time consuming practice of printing, signing, and faxing.

Convert paper documents to PDF
Easily scan a paper document and convert it to a searchable PDF file. Convert from PDF to Microsoft Word Save PDF files as Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables, so you can easily reuse content.

Archive documents and e-mail
Save documents and e-mail in PDF/A, the standard for archiving, to simplify search and retrieval in the future.

• Combine multiple files into a searchable, sortable PDF package that maintains the individual security settings and digital signatures of each included PDF document.
• Scan paper documents with OCR technology to create compact, searchable Adobe PDF documents. Convert Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes e-mail archives to Adobe PDF to facilitate search and retrieval.
• Save Adobe PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables, to facilitate reuse of content.

• Deliver the richest, most engaging PDF communications anytime, anywhere
• Collaborate through shared document reviews, help protect and control sensitive information--quickly gain the input you need to efficiently develop and complete work
• Includes Adobe Presenter for rich-media presentations, video-to-Flash conversion, advanced geospatial collaboration with PDF maps

Communicate and collaborate more easily and securely with Adobe PDF. For a more in-depth comparison, download a feature comparison (PDF format).

Create Interactive, On-Demand Presentations
Use Adobe Presenter, included with Acrobat 9 Pro Extended software, to liven up your Microsoft PowerPoint slides. Add video, voice-over, demos, and interactive quizzes to keep your audience engaged and improve knowledge retention. Save your presentation as a PDF file so people can view it wherever they are, whenever it's convenient.

Unify the Widest Range of Content
Assemble documents, drawings, e-mail, spreadsheets, and rich media--including video, audio, 3D, and maps--in a single compressed PDF Portfolio. Choose one of many professional templates to quickly integrate content, define navigation, incorporate branding, and add polish to your PDF Portfolio.

Choose one of many professional templates--or create your own--to quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to your PDF Portfolios.

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

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

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

Easily share video in PDF files
Native support for Flash technology can enable reliable, cross-platform sharing of video, animations, and applications in Acrobat and Adobe Reader. Convert a variety of video formats to FLV for playback in PDF files without needing a special media player.

Create and Manage Electronic Forms
Convert Microsoft Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF forms with automatic recognition of fillable fields. Use Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES software, a professional form design tool included with Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, to create, customize, and automate dynamic XML forms. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. Easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting or into a database.

Help Protect Sensitive Information
Control access to and use of 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. Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive information. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document security policies that can be easily applied to new PDF files.

Top reasons to buy Acrobat 9 Pro Extended

Include Adobe Reader users
Enable users of free Adobe Reader software to digitally sign documents, participate in shared document reviews, and save forms locally. By extending Acrobat functionality to Reader users, virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate.

Help protect your documents
Use passwords to help control access to PDF documents. Use permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering. Save passwords and permissions as security policies that can be easily applied to new PDF files.

Permanently remove sensitive information
Use redaction tools to black out sensitive text, illustrations, or other information, permanently deleting the content from the PDF document. Inspect PDF documents for metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and remove before distributing to others.

Enable virtually anyone to access design data
Convert virtually any 2D and 3D designs--including layers, dimensions, and metadata--to a single PDF file to share product data more easily and securely.

Manage and track document reviews
Gain the input you need through interactive document reviews that enable participants to see and build on each other's comments, which can be sorted by author, date, or page. Use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Synchronize document views
Ensure colleagues, clients, and partners are on the same page at the same time with the ability to co-navigate documents. To provide clarity and enhance discussion, e-mail a document and walk recipients through it in real time by controlling the exact page view they see.

Compare PDF documents
Automatically highlight the differences between two versions of a PDF document, including text and images, so you can quickly and easily identify what has changed.

View and interact with PDF maps
Search, measure, and mark up geospatially enabled PDF maps. Discover the longitude and latitude by placing your cursor over a location.

• Enable anyone using free Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8) to participate in document reviews, fill and save electronic forms offline, and digitally sign documents.
• Send documents for review and track which reviewers have contributed feedback. Compile comments into a single PDF document with one-button ease and sort them by author, date, or page.
• Combine multiple files as PDF documents in a searchable, sortable PDF package that maintains the individual security settings and digital signatures of each included PDF document.

• Deliver the richest, most engaging PDF communications anytime, anywhere
• Collaborate through shared document reviews, help protect and control sensitive information--quickly gain the input you need to efficiently develop and complete work
• Includes professional templates for PDF portfolios, Adobe Reader review and commenting, LiveCycle Designer ES for dynamic forms

• Deliver the richest, most engaging PDF communications anytime, anywhere
• Collaborate through shared document reviews, help protect and control sensitive information--quickly gain the input you need to efficiently develop and complete work
• Includes professional templates for PDF portfolios, Adobe Reader review and commenting, LiveCycle Designer ES for dynamic forms