Adobe Acrobat 5.0

Acrobat Reader software is a free utility for viewing and printing Adobe PDF files. Acrobat 5.0 is a desktop productivity tool that allows you to create, review, approve, secure, and share Adobe PDF files online.

With over 200 million copies of Acrobat Reader distributed worldwide, Adobe PDF is the open de facto standard for electronic document distribution. Adobe PDF is a universal file format that preserves all of the fonts, formatting, colors, and graphics of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it. Adobe PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated, and printed exactly as intended by anyone with the free Acrobat Reader.

Yes. Acrobat 5.0 and Adobe PDF support text in many different languages. If you create an Adobe PDF file and embed the needed fonts, the Adobe PDF document can be viewed and printed using any language version of Acrobat Reader. For example, without any additional software, you can view an Adobe PDF file that contains Chinese text on an English operating system with an English version of Acrobat Reader.

Anyone who needs to efficiently share documents online. The main categories of users include: Business professionals working in the extended enterprise who need to work faster and smarter, but not harder—via the Web. Graphic arts professionals who need to juggle client reviews at Web speed. IT professionals who require quick and easy ways to implement, deploy and maintain Acrobat across thousands of desktop systems.

Acrobat 5.0 is the best tool for sharing documents online. True to its heritage, Acrobat 5.0 continues the tradition of allowing users to produce documents that retain the fidelity of the original, exactly as intended. Customers can be certain that Adobe PDF files they create in Acrobat 5.0 and share online can be viewed and printed using Acrobat Reader across various hardware and operating systems. But Acrobat 5.0 functionality goes well beyond this fundamental value proposition: professionals can now work more efficiently as individuals and with teams; customers have enhanced capabilities for creating, digitally signing and sending secure documents; businesses can more effectively use electronic forms to reduce costs and increase the accuracy of information in those forms; users can distribute information in a more accessible manner to people with disabilities; and IT managers can now easily deploy and maintain Acrobat software across an entire organization.

Acrobat 5.0 offers a number of key improvements that make it an even more indispensable desktop productivity tool for business, graphic arts and IT professionals: Tight Web integration—The product supports industry standard protocols like WebDistributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) and Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC). As a result, Acrobat 5.0 enables teams to save valuable time on document review processes by simultaneously sharing comments within a Web browser. Support for the eXtensible Markup Language (XML)—Through support for XML, Acrobat 5.0 now makes it simple to integrate data, such as metadata or forms data in Adobe PDF files, with back-end systems. In addition, users can create tagged Adobe PDF files that preserve document structure to enable both the easy re-use of content and ability to make documents more accessible to users with disabilities. Powerful batch processing capabilities—Acrobat 5.0 also includes powerful batch processing capabilities for using Adobe PDF files more efficiently and productively. Through a set of pre-defined actions, users can automate repetitive tasks such as setting precise security controls or preparing documents for fast Web viewing. Also, customers can write customized actions using the JavaScript editor included with Acrobat 5.0 or their own editor. Easy deployment and maintenance across thousands of desktops—Acrobat 5.0 has been designed with the intent to work with enterprise deployment tools, making it easier to manage in large computing environments. IT professionals now have the ability to auto-install and maintain Acrobat 5.0 over a network to thousands of multi-user or lockdown desktop systems.