Adobe Acrobat 9 Released, CS 3.3 Available

[MacRumors]

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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[GenericUsername]

Originally Posted by MacRumors

- Capturing web pages as PDF

Can anyone recommend freeware that does this well?

[Sisedi]

Originally Posted by GenericUsername

Can anyone recommend freeware that does this well?

You can use any Mac app to do this. Firefox, safari, probably opera too can do this. Go to file>print>save as pdf.

This feature is in 10.5 but I'm not sure about earlier versions.

[bretm]

Originally Posted by Sisedi

You can use any Mac app to do this. Firefox, safari, probably opera too can do this. Go to file>print>save as pdf.

This feature is in 10.5 but I'm not sure about earlier versions.

Apple has had this for 7 years. You want a long page? Change the paper size. Duh.

[137489]

Answered my own questions.... according to the podcast below, if you have acrobat reader 9, you can view the flash as the flash player is built in. so with acrobat reader 9 you do not need flash on your machine to see a flash embedded PDF. they also claim that you can imbed quicktime movies.

http://www.mediafly.com/Podcasts/Epi...Professional_1

I can see where this could be useful - but for a $160 upgrade, or $500 if you have a version lower than 6 - is a bit expensive if this is the only truely added feature (which some say is a feature that always existed, just was broken).

Nice - yes
would I want it - yes
can I justify the cost - no

There are too many other PDF products out there. that do all this with the exception of video.

Now, I never worked with Latex, but it seems you can do this with latex? Here's a link:

http://www.uoregon.edu/~noeckel/PDFmovie.html

[137489]

I think what people are missing here is the article says FLV - this is the new flash (well, been around for a couple of years now). With Acrobat 7 and up you could use SWF.

Embed Flash files into PDF with Acrobat 7
I read what Bruce Chizen, chief executive officer of Adobe, said after the acquisition "By combining our powerful development, authoring and collaboration software - along with the complementary functionality of PDF and Flash - Adobe has the opportunity to bring this vision to life with an industry-defining technology platform".

Since now we can use FlashPaper 2 to create a PDF (or a SWF) from every printable document and we can also embed Flash files into PDF documents.
These are a few and simple steps to place a SWF file in a PDF using Adobe Acrobat 7 :

open the Advanced Editing toolbar
go to Tools > Advance Editing > Movie Tool and choose a position for your media item
the Add Movie window opens. You can set your option selecting the Content and Poster Settings, content type and other options
Pay attention to your SWF, I noticed some problem with compressed SWF file

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But again with all the FLV to SWF converters - I only see Acrobat 9 necessary if you do not want to convert your FLV files into another format like quicktime MOV, AVI or SWF.

[madmaxmedia]

Originally Posted by GenericUsername

Can anyone recommend freeware that does this well?

SafariStand is a great free plugin with some different useful features, one of which is exporting a web page to PDF.

Just right-click on a page and select 'Export to PDF'. You get one long page, very nice.

Saft does it too, but I think that is a paid program.

[CoryBoyUSA]

The CS3.3 Design Premium upgrade ALSO includes Fireworks now, so that and Acrobat 9 together makes it worth the upgrade price, I believe.


Dang it .... in the time it took me to log in to post this, tobyx beat me to it

[cloudnine]

Originally Posted by CoryBoyUSA

The CS3.3 Design Premium upgrade ALSO includes Fireworks now, so that and Acrobat 9 together makes it worth the upgrade price, I believe.

Um... I'm not sure I understand. I have CS3 (NOT 3.3) and I have Fireworks.

[longofest]

Originally Posted by cloudnine

Um... I'm not sure I understand. I have CS3 (NOT 3.3) and I have Fireworks.

Do you have Web Premium? The web versions have Fireworks, but I think the point is that now 3.3 is adding Fireworks to Design Premium as well.

[Scooterman1]

A lower priced alternative to Acrobat would be nice. I have 6.0 but they really charge a lot for their upgrades.

At least MS Word, and better yet, OpenOffice 3.0 does a pretty good job of saving.

Wow, just checked and Sun has a Beta Extension for OOO to allow importing! Awesome.

[morespce54]

Originally Posted by GenericUsername

Can anyone recommend freeware that does this well?

It's probably been mentioned already but: Paparazzi

http://www.derailer.org/paparazzi/

Can't live without it (and the main reason I won't upgrade Acrobat! )

[Niiro13]

Originally Posted by MacRumors

- Capturing web pages as PDF

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

[longofest]

Originally Posted by GenericUsername

Can anyone recommend freeware that does this well?

Originally Posted by Niiro13

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?

[The General]

Originally Posted by Niiro13

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.

[crees!]

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?

[matperk]

Originally Posted by crees!

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.

[pepijn]

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.

[chaosbunny]

Originally Posted by crees!

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?

That would be pretty ridiculous. But somehow it's something that I would expect from Adobe.

[batchtaster]

Originally Posted by chaosbunny

That would be pretty ridiculous. But somehow it's something that I would expect from Adobe.

You don't have to "update" your suite. It's "this is what the suite now looks like". If you want the difference between them (ie: Acrobat 9), then you pay $X for the upgrade. Ignoring the rest of the suite, if you wanted to upgrade from Acrobat 8 to 9, you would have to pay for it anyway. If you don't want to upgrade to Acrobat 9, then don't. It's just a running change.

[tobyx]

Originally Posted by chaosbunny

That would be pretty ridiculous. But somehow it's something that I would expect from Adobe.

CS 3.3 Design Premium now also includes Fireworks CS3, which was not bundled before... If you need that lol.

[ChrisA]

Originally Posted by crees!

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 think upgrading CS3 to CS3.3 is exactly the same thing as getting the Acrobat 9 update. So the price is the same.

Just a technical difference in how the license works. Components can either use the CS3 serial number or their own serial number, so they are letting you go either way.

[kitki83]

This seems to me like an update rather than new version of the same program which to me seems unfair to pay for it. I know there are subtle differences but we as techno-geeks are use to getting free updates and this company to me seems to take advatage of this. Also whats the purpose if Cs4 is coming out. Why spend more money on 3.3 if I wait for cs4. I don't understand the logic.


Edit.
WHO EVER RECOMMENDED PAPARAZZI, YOU ARE A GOD!!! It even saves as text not just image of text. Omg no more saving MAF files THANK YOU

[patseguin]

Originally Posted by ChrisA

I think upgrading CS3 to CS3.3 is exactly the same thing as getting the Acrobat 9 update. So the price is the same.

Just a technical difference in how the license works. Components can either use the CS3 serial number or their own serial number, so they are letting you go either way.

This is exactly right. I just purchased the "CS3.3 Upgrade" and all it was was a donwload of Acrobat 9 Pro. Kinda false advertising as I was expecting new released of the other programs in the suite.

[atari1356]

Originally Posted by GenericUsername

Can anyone recommend freeware that does this well?

Originally Posted by The General

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.