Customer Reviews
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
 Acrobat is the Cornerstone of Knowledge Management, Apr 20, 2023
I train over 100 people per month on Acrobat. It is the only program that can bring the output from all programs together in one format and maintain document integrity. All the students are loving the improvements in Acrobat 7.
The adding of macros into Office Products is a great productivity tool that is universally accepted by all my students. I get several questions per month from students wanting to add the macros when Windows security is set too tight for all the macros to be added. Just printing PDF through the distiller does not create all the intelligence that is available in a PDF document.
Adobe is real good about asking for comments from the user community. If you want new features or changes in the next edition there is a portal on the Adobe website for your comments.
ISO is adopting numerous standards around PDF. PDF-A (archival) will be realeased in the next couple months. It will be the only format that can handle text, raster and vector. ISO PDF-E (engineering) is under development - it will revolutionize engineering. Acrobat 7 allows creation of 3-D PDF files that can be annimated and viewed in the Acrobat 7 Reader. Adobe publishes the PDF spec and encourages developers to expand the program. You can purchase third-party plugins to expand the functionality.
Finally we have a common format for the computer world to communicate. It will not replace other programs, but will allow us to communicate in one format. Imagine a 3000 page file with outputs from AutoCAD, Word, excel, microstation, scanning and numerous other programs. Now imagine searching everyting including drawings in 2 seconds. With Acrobat 7 you can do it.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
 Don't buy Version 7!, Apr 16, 2023
I paid full retail price for Acrobat 7.0 based on my assumtion about Adobe's reputation. What a huge mistake! Acrobat 7 will take over your machine and spread its tentacles into nearly all of your applications. The arrogance of Adobe is truly amazing. I couldn't make it work with Netscape, but I also couldn't remove it and use Reader 6.0 either. It seems they know best how you want to use your computer, and they enforce their methods upon you. Good luck if you have any problems or questions: the technical support people wanted $40.00 to answer a simple question, and this was immediately after I purchased and registered the product. I finally had to uninstall Acrobat completely from my machine. I've just wasted $450.00.
Steer clear of Version 7!
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Shameless release, Apr 14, 2023
At first I was excited because the load time for 7.0 is considerably faster than 6.0 (Professional version). But once I opened Office, what used to be an inconvenience now became a time-consuming and impossible morass: while the previous versions allowed you to remove its "convenient" toolbar (that always ate up its own row on the top, grrr!) and disable its macros, now in 7.0 these eye sores never go away since they are not normal add-in templates and worse, the Word add-in forbids you from making ANY customizations to Word. That means no customized styles, no toolbar changes, no keyboard shortcuts--all your changes get wiped out by their convenient add-in every time you exit from Word, unless you look up some obscure fix for this problem whereby you can only save your customizations if you press SHIFT + SAVE ALL in the file menu. If youre asking, what?, then that's precisely it. What the frig. I managed to remove their toolbar from Word but to disable the annoying drop-down folders (they take up too much space), I had to resort to googling the problem to find a registry-edit fix. There is really no happy compromise.
If you keep their shamelessly untested software release, then your entire screen gets cluttered and you cannot customize Word to your liking, not to mention some of their drop-down menus are just downright buggy and have crashed Word for me several times.
If you tweak the registry to disable its features, then your PDF created from Word won't be as optimal as it could be. (for one, hyperlinking heading styles do not get converted to hyperlinks unless you use their macro as far as I can tell. I like to use hyperlinking Table of Contents in my Word files so this is important to me). the only solution i have figured out is to create two registry strings, one which I click on to disable their stuff for normal use, and another that enables it again for when i need to make PDF from Word. What a hassle.
Right now I am trying to figure out how to get rid of annoying toolbar they added in Outlook.
Do not buy this product unless/until they release a fix or upgrade that addresses these issues.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
 If only it weren't from Adobe, Apr 5, 2023
Adobe continues to provide the worst, most inaccessible, and most annoying customer "service" of any major software company. After spending a half-day wading through levels of approval and ignorance, I am left with no answers to what should be a simple question about this new release of Acrobat. Adobe's product documentation is shallow, difficult to navigate, and generally fails to cover even basic features. How can they get it so wrong, for so long? I dearly wish a customer-oriented company would offer them some competition, so I wouldn't feel obliged to put up with their frequent upgrades and lousy service.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
Worse than Malware, Mar 23, 2023
Don't take my word for it that's a quote from the title of a recent post excoriating this irritating and increasingly bloated product on Slashdot.(1)
Be warned: Adobe has not learned its lesson, and despite the outcry that followed the release of version 6, this latest release of Acrobat continues Adobe's aggressive trend of intruding into your desktop environment, again, as in version 6 without providing an easy way to undo the damage once its done--in fact, it's now nearly impossible. Like earlier releases, this version of Acrobat adds startup macros and new toolbar buttons to your existing applications and adds menu entries to your desktop "right click" menus. Adobe argues that these are conveniences, but they are entirely unnecessary (for most of us "printing" to Adobe PDF achieves the same result, is much more convenient, and a more natural model), and clutter what for most users is either a too-crowded user interface (for those who don't have the knowledge or patience to customize it) or a carefully tuned one (for those who do). Unlike many well-behaved applications that provide obvious ways of avoiding this kind of intrusive and disruptive behavior (e.g. through a simple checkbox option in a settings dialog), Acrobat's "option" for disabling this behavior, once deeply hidden in the setup process,is now almost completely absent. To disable the "Convert to Adobe PDF" button that mysteriously appears in the Outlook mail editor, for example, one has to be sure to choose "this feature will not be available" from the "Microsoft Outlook" option under "Acrobat PDFMaker" under "Create Adobe PDF". Simply deleting the button using Outlook's toolbar customization feature will not work: it comes right back when the editor is next opened. Similar problems arise in Word, Excel, Visio, Project, and Internet Explorer. And there's simply no way to get rid of the never-used "Convert to Adobe PDF" and "Combine in Acrobat..." entries in that appear in the desktop context menus for files (even if one installs none of the Acrobat PDFMaker features).
For the technically inclined wishing to repair some of the damage that Acrobat 7 does, there are complex but largely effective step by step instructions available on the web(2), but even the authors of these are driven to despair by version 7: ("Adobe has really pushed the boat out with Acrobat 7 and managed to screw Word royally") .
In short, Acrobat will make a mess of your working environment, there's no way to completely fix it, and even the partial fix is a pain (and not well documented). (This may seem a minor issue, but if every application followed Adobe's reckless example, our working environments would start to look like strip malls, crowded with features screaming for our attention to the point where it is hard to find what we need when we need it. One of the great strengths of the personal computer desktop is that users can configure it in ways that suit their needs; no application should interfere with that.)
Experienced Acrobat users will also notice that this version continues another frustrating trend for Acrobat (and most other Adobe applications): it is yet again slower to launch than the previous version. In fact, on my 2 GHz Pentium 4, it takes longer to launch than the entire Visual Studio .NET development environment, and longer than the boot sequence for Windows XP!
There are other minor problems as well (arbitrary rearrangements of menu and tool bar items, etc.) but these two major flaws are more than bad enough. Unless you really need the latest Acrobat features, you should probably avoid this upgrade. And if the "improvements" in this release are any indication of where Adobe plans to go with future releases, it may be time to start looking elsewhere for a tool for digital document management.
Fortunately, there's no reason at all to upgrade. Version 7 offers no usefully new features, so you can (and should) avoid this one (at all costs).
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