| Acrobat 5.0 Win | 
 enlarge | From: Adobe Systems Inc.
Category: Software
Buy New: £59.99
New (5) Used (1) from £59.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 1810
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows Me
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
EAN: 5029766329663
ASIN: B00005B9WI
Release Date: April 6, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: VAT Invoice Supplied : New Sellophane Sealed UK Commercial Retail Boxed ( Full Version ) , Full UK Commercial version , NOT USA IMPORT : Adobe Part Number , 22001443 , ( Royal Mail First Class Recorded Delivery )
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 Don't buy acrobat 6 unless you really need it July 25, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Acrobat 5 is fairly fast and light. Run well under MacOS X Panther. Most of its job is done without using "sci-fi features" I currently use both the Mac and Win version and got no problem at all.
Acrobat 6 - as, for all I can see, the whole CS series - is heavy and slow (on a 1,25 Mhz G4 with 1 gig of RAM). Unless one needs some very high level feature, is better to stay sticked to the previous version.
Good Marketing Tool January 21, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I find this software essential for marketing purposes - sending impressive yet graphics heavy information to customers is useless if they can't open it on the other side due to a slow internet connection. The security aspect is excellent also, in that quotes or sensitive information cannot be altered on the recipient's computer. A must have to slim down those massive emails!
 It does what it claims, but... March 25, 2003
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
As other reviewers have correctly observed, this is NOT a program for creating documents - you use other programs such as WORD to do that. But having created them, you can use Acrobat to convert them into a form that can be viewed consistently across a variety of operating systems (once the would-be reader has downloaded the freebie Acrobat Viewer).And that's about it. Useful, but with a quite ludicrous price tag for what it actually does.
 Significantly better than 4.0 January 5, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Acrobat 5.0 doesn't ship with the paper capture plugin, but this is available as a 15MB download - FREE - from Adobe com. Use google search to find it more easily. Even so, it's not the greatest feature to have in Acrobat, it being too inconsistent to get good results. It's better than nothing, but FineReader 5.0/6.0 is vastly superior for OCR work, which can then be converted to a .PDF.Unlike 4.0, 5.0 can save a .PDF as a postscript file that can then be re-distilled to a .PDF. This gets around the problem of some .PDFs, that have been made with a ghostscript application, and which Acrobat won't recognise directly when trying to save it after work in Acrobat has been carried out. This also applies to some .PDFs created in Win NT and MAC. Unfortunately, bookmarks and other mark-ups will be lost and will have to be re-done. Forms should be okay if you export the form data before re-distilling. An unsecured .PDF can be saved as a .RTF , but unless the text has been tagged you will have a lot of re-work to do in a word processor to re-format the paragraphs, etc. Even tagged text needs a lot of touching up. Only the simplest of text documents work reasonably well. The web-capture feature now works with web-pages downloaded to your hard drive, whereas 4.0 would only work directly from a URL. Much more sensible. PDF security is more comprehensive and the digital signature details are improved. For most circumstances, and if you already have Acrobat 4.0, the upgrade to 5.0 is hard to justify. However, 5.0 is a more refined version with many features that are helpful to those doing a lot of complicated, workflow-centric .PDF work. And where collaboration over a network is important.
To distribute onwards, you need this December 3, 2002
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
It is a very good system anyway (based on a special printer-related idea) but its main value is that you can distribute word docs, technical manuals, spreadsheets and - in my case - drawings, without the recipient having to have either the application or a special viewer. To download the Acrobat Reader is free and it's widely available.
It is thus almost a 'language' and is capable of many uses. A document/drawing etc saved in .pdf is also usually much smaller than the original document and therefore very useful on websites, to email etc. It's also very 'searchable' in that an Acrobat document comes complete with its own Find facility.
Highly recommended if you're going to want to send a drawing, manual or whatever to many different people.
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