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

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Many missionaries use Acrobat to send updates, etc. I don’t know how many of them use the security features, but it’d be really cool for them to embed a movie or other media in their updates…
I like your blog.
>BH
Billy,
Hey, thanks for dropping by. Glad you like it. I have recently regained steam and posting much more regular than a few months back.
Yes, I think the possibilities are amazing with the new version of Acrobat. PDF isn’t great for everything, but for stuff like newsletters it works well.
Many folks use Acrobat as a simple converter. I’m looking forward to some creative folks getting a hold of it and see what they do.
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