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Adobe Acrobat 9 Released, CS 3.3 Available

Adobe has announced the availability of Adobe Acrobat 9. According to Adobe's website, new or enhanced features include:

- Capturing web pages as PDF
- Insert video (FLV or H.264) into PDF. Video can be marked up.
- Content management via PDF Portfolio feature
- Professionally designed templates
- 256 bit encryption
- Enhanced review tracker
- Electronic Form importer from Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, or scanned documents
- Ability to check PDF standards compliance

The software is available as a stand-alone product in Standard, Pro, and Extended versions (only the Pro version is Mac compatible), or via Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 (Design Premium and Standard and Web Premium versions), which are available as a $159 upgrade for existing CS3 customers. More details are available via Adobe's site.

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48 months ago

- Capturing web pages as PDF

Can anyone recommend freeware that does this well?
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48 months ago

- Capturing web pages as PDF


But wait...can't any Adobe Acrobat do this (and Macs)? Is there a difference between printing and capturing?
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48 months ago

Can anyone recommend freeware that does this well?


But wait...can't any Adobe Acrobat do this (and Macs)? Is there a difference between printing and capturing?


it used to be print and then print to PDF... Isn't it now under the Save As menu?
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48 months ago

Is there a difference between printing and capturing?


Yes. Printing splits it into pages, and it looks terrible. Capturing makes a PDF that looks exactly like the website.
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48 months ago
I must be reading this wrong. Is it saying you need to pay $160 if you want to upgrade your CS3 to CS3.3? Or is that just to get the Acrobat 9 update only?
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48 months ago
why would they charge all that money for a point update?
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48 months ago

I must be reading this wrong. Is it saying you need to pay $160 if you want to upgrade your CS3 to CS3.3? Or is that just to get the Acrobat 9 update only?


I believe it is $160 to get CS3.3 which includes acrobat 9. I don't think there are any more differences.
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48 months ago

Can anyone recommend freeware that does this well?


Yes. Printing splits it into pages, and it looks terrible. Capturing makes a PDF that looks exactly like the website.


Paparazzi captures to PDF, PNG, TIFF, or JPG and is free. It does it as one long page, rather than splitting it into pages.

I haven't used Acrobat for capturing web sites, so I'm not sure how it compares.
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48 months ago
double you tea eff?!

for those of us that paid over a grand for CS3, we seriously need to pay $160 for an upgrade to ONE of the products instead of getting it as a software update? That's seriously lame.
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48 months ago
As of 11:00 AM EDT, I was told the official word from Adobe is that "there will be no evaluation download of Acrobat 9 Pro for Macintosh." This after contacting support because only a Windows trial is listed for download on their site. Right. I was advised to purchase the upgrade to 9 and then return it within 30 days to get my money back. Considering I'm looking at 200+ seats to possibly upgrade depending on whether they fixed an ongoing bug with trim box previews that's been there since Acrobat 7, you'd think they'd offer me something better than a $159 deposit trial option. Thanks, Adobe.

On a side note, there is no Pro Extended version for Mac. That honor befalls the Windows platform, because clearly Windows users need an app that crams in more and more functionality unrelated to its main purpose. :rolleyes:
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