Just released, Adobe Acrobat 9 is a major upgrade offering many slick new features such as:
- Play media within the document. Acrobat will now convert MOV, WMV, FLV and H.264 files to Flash to for playing audio and video content.
- Easy file conversion from Office products.
- Robust management for permissions, encrypted data and digital signatures.
- Drag and drop documents and multimedia content for flexible presentation creation.
- Integrate 3D representation from CAD applications.
- Dynamically interact with others via acrobat.com. The new online service allows for collaboration, live meetings, easy pdf creation, file sharing, and online storage.
Check-out the Acrobat 9 Product Comparison for the differences between Acrobat 9 Standard, Pro and Pro Extended.
It’s amazing to think what this will mean for web publishing and presentation of dynamic information. For instance, instead of a simple spec sheet for a product, why not incorporate 3D views of the product, audio descriptions and video tutorials all in a portable format that is cross-plaform compatible