Adobe Acrobat 4.0

Advantages: Cross platform, web and hyperlink compatible, extremely flexible document and page view tool
Disadvantages: None

...that has influenced whole industries and their working habits in regard of document transfer and communication. Experience background Almost 6 years ago, when Adobe Acrobat 3.0 was released I was the global advertising and promotion manager of a division in my company, managing advertising campaigns and promotional literature creation and distribution for our sales organizations in more than 100 countries around the globe. Communication about content, features and layout was very difficult those days between sales organizations, headquarters and all creative outsourcing parties. A graphic designer made me aware of the Acrobat where you could transform documents created in any given program into the PDF (Portable Document Format) format that could be viewed by everyone who would own the small, free Acrobat reader. The transformation...

NoMeansNo 12.05.2001 · Read review
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Adobe Acrobat Reader

Advantages: Free, used globally, secure file transfer
Disadvantages: None

...~Introduction~ As I start this review, I will declare that my knowledge of computers and their applications is good, but not as extensive as some people's. I do know some of the more advanced functions of a computer and am pretty confident that I can write the review in a more than legible manor. I have come across Adobe Acrobat Reader a number of times in my use of computers and the internet and I feel that the programme is worthy of a review from myself. I am taking my A-levels at school at the moment and Adobe Acrobat pops up a lot in business studies. We are often assigned tasks to find cash flow forecasts or a break even analysis from a real life company and many of these are Adobe Acrobat files. ~Overview~ The Adobe Acrobat software, allows users to view and compile documents that can't be edited by others...

thespurs 02.12.2004 · Read review
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Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard

Advantages: It will easily convert documents of a different format to pdf
Disadvantages: It uses a lot of processor speed, it takes a long time to load,

...This software allows you to create PDF format documents. PDF documents are especially useful for people who would like their documents to appear on websites. The software also allows the user to convert documents such as microsoft word documents (*.doc) to pdf format. This means that all your documents can easily be converted from doc to pdf in a click of a button. Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard also is capable of breaking down large pdf documents into smaller more managable files. Which can then either be loaded or saved seperately to make the file size smaller, or the user can disguard pages that are demmed unnecessary. Be aware it is loaded instead of the quicker acrobat reader after install when viewing pdfs The software is realitively expensive for its usefulness but it does provide a professonial look for people wanted to make...

serenhere 18.09.2007 · Read review
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

Advantages: Great selection tools, pan & zoom in slide shows, price, printed manual
Disadvantages: file browser gone

...Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 aims to be everything the photographer wants for tweaking and fixing their images. Whilst the professionals prefer its more expensive big brother Photoshop CS, Photoshop Elements isn't to be sniffed at and offers 80% of the power for 10% of the price whilst making many tasks much easier. The biggest surprise coming from version 3 is that the file browser has gone. Adobe, what are you thinking? Well, it's clear what they're thinking, they want you to use the Photoshop Album interface which merged in to Photoshop Elements with version 3. It's actually a very powerful interface and lets you import and catalogue your images with ease and flexibility but sometimes, you just want to get down and dirty with the file system and the loss of a file browser hurts. As a sort of apology, Adobe have added the ability to...

ilaskey 08.02.2007 · Read review
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Adobe Dreamweaver - fantastic bit of software!

Advantages: easy to use, code hinting, loads of useful features
Disadvantages: sometimes is a bit tempremental

...Adobe Dreamweaver is one of the best web design programs of all time, or at least that's what I think. I started using Dreamweaver as the designer of my site, never venturing into the code side of things. Dreamweaver is great when it comes to this, the new CS4 interface makes everything so much easier to get to. It is so simple that you can have a table based template set up in no time! However, when I started looking into making my site a little better and nicer looking, I came accross CSS. When I started using this coding language, I knew nothing about it, however when I opened up a blank CSS document, I noticed that when I typed I got suggestions of what could be put in. Using this I gradually learned CSS through code hinting, that is how great it is. Another great thing with Dreamweaver is the ease of setting up a connection to...

scrobby 24.10.2009 · Read review
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Amazing Photo Editing Program (Adobe Photoshop CS4)

Advantages: Massive amount of features, endless ways to manipulate pictures
Disadvantages: Takes a while to learn how to use it

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soutram 30.06.2009 · Read review
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Juggling for PC and Mac users

Advantages: Cross platform print optimised layout
Disadvantages: too expensive for home use

...-only (I admit that this is hardly a unique feature, as it is easy to write-protect and make Word Docs read only) which means for sending my CV there is no chance that someone opening the document can accidentally delete a line, however this is still not as impressive as the fact that you know your Acrobat file will come out looking just as it did when you sent it. Proof that this is a great product is that there are an estimated 200 Million copies of the Reader in use, due to its cross platform nature, and it has become *the* tool for content that is destined to be shared over the web. Alongside Acrobat’s latest version, 5.0, there is also a new version of the Acrobat Reader. The Acrobat Reader is freeware, and is a simple download from the adobe website (www.adobe.com). Users of Acrobat Reader 4.0 can still open files that have been...

Morgenhund 30.04.2001 · Read review
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Communication across different operating systems

Advantages: Allows documents to be viewed on different platforms and operating systems, protects intellectual property, reduces use of paper and saves money for businesses, compresses data for effective storage
Disadvantages: You can't copy data from pdf files which might be a problem for some people, acrobat reader 5.0 had quite a few bugs

...Adobe acrobat is a widely used piece of software that allows documents to be viewed across a range of different platforms. I expect that many people reading this opinion will either possess the Adobe acrobat reader on their computer, or at the very least have heard of this software. The software operates using files in a format known as pdf, if you have ever wondered what pdf stands for it is Portable Document Format. The pdf files are encrypted files that cannot be edited or tampered with. pdf files are most commonly used to display text, figures and basic diagrams, but can also display photographs and movies. Most pdf files tend to be WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) in nature. There are two components involved in the Adobe acrobat software, this includes the aforementioned acrobat reader and acrobat distiller. If you...

gorvifal3 12.04.2003 · Read review
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Adobe Illustrator 9

Advantages: Feature packed and useful tools like Smart Guides
Disadvantages: Tricky for the beginner

...A lot of people seem to have difficulty understanding the difference between a program like Adobe Photoshop and a program like Illustrator. This is understandable, esspecially as the latest versions of these excellent products offer many similar features. The main differences between the packages are that one is keyed up for producing bitmap graphics (photoshop) and the other, vector graphics (illustrator). Vector graphics are basically simple mathematical shapes expressed visually, because of this they can be blown up to any size without any loss of quality, the computer or printer simply re-calculates the shape at a bigger size. Bitmaps are a grid of pixels, each pixel can have a specific colour value and bitmaps are therefore more suited to continuous tone images such as photographs. The bigger a bitmap gets the more memory...

Prawn 19.03.2001 · Read review
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No sticky back tape here!

Advantages: Superb package, easy to use
Disadvantages: Cost

...Acrobat is one of the many ways on the market to create the ever popular PDF file. The best thing here is that this is the original way. Yep it's another fine Adobe creation. There's a couple of ways to create said PDF but my favourite is to use my normal editing package (Word) to create my documents. Once happy, and having finished editing changing editing changing and going back 1 final time to modify the colour of a fullstop you simply print to the Acrobat printer. This will in turn output the desired PDF file. EASY! That's the whole essence of the Acrobat experience. It's an effortless one if you want it to be but the tools exists to do way more complex tasks. Check out the adobe site for more detail but rest assured it's an excellent and well recommended product....

AndreBoyle 14.08.2000 · Read review
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