Adobe® Acrobat® 8
Professional
Creative Suite® 2.3 Premium
Create, Collaborate, and
Control Output with Adobe
PDF
John Schuman
Education Solutions Engineer
January 16, 2007
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe revolutionizes how the world
engages with ideas and information
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Horizontal and Vertical Focus
Media & Publishing
Design & Print Production
Prepress & Print
IT
Legal
Sales & Marketing
Finance
Human Resources
Training
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AEC
Mfg
Gov
Fin Serv
Edu
Telco
Zen of Acrobat 8 Professional
Create and optimize Adobe
PDF documents for many uses
Control documents
and processes to
achieve the expected
output
Collaborate
Manage, organize
and extend feedback
to expedite document
collaboration
Collect
Streamline data
collection with
Adobe PDF
forms
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Combine files from
multiple applications into
a single, document
container
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Acrobat 8 — Enhanced User Experience
Improved
Help
Easy to
Customize
Task-based
interface
What’s New
Getting
Started Panel
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Introducing Acrobat Connect
98%
PCs
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Eliminate technology barriers
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Bring real-world functionality
to online real time collaboration
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Available for Acrobat, Reader, and
PDF Maker users
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Now available for individuals with
Acrobat Connect
*Available only in English for the launch of Acrobat 8
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Creative Workflow Challenges
Designers
Printers
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Consistently preserving the design intent of
documents
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Reliably distributing files in a variety of mediums
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Managing and tracking reviews efficiently

Handing off files optimized for print output
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Printing increasingly complex content

Managing designers’ expectations

Reducing errors in file handoff
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Automating repeatable processes
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Increasing profitability
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Acrobat Innovations for Design and Print Professionals
Fall 2006
Dec 2004
April 2003
Acrobat 8
Acrobat 7
Acrobat 6
Universal Binary
Preflight
Introduce
Enhance and
Optimize
Creation and preflight
Automate corrections
JDF creation
JDF workflow
with validation
Acrobat only
Acrobat and Reader
Email and browser
Server-based reviews
and Acrobat Connect
Product segmentation
Industry specific features
Industry specific
workflows
PDF/X
JDF Automation
Collaboration
User Experience
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Expanded creation
and validation
Integration and Control Over End-to-End PDF Workflow
Create

Collaborate
Native PDF file creation
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Comment and Review

Standards / best practices
built-in
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PDF/JDF workflows
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Content preserved with no
conversions

Content integrity
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Preflight & corrections
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JDF job ticket creation
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Submission
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Control Output

Control over output

Streamline workflows

Achieve expected results
Acrobat 8 Professional for Design and Print
Professionals
Create

Ease of use – new UI, tasked-based
menus, customizable toolbar

JDF for controlling and automating
PDF creation

Tighter Creative Suite integration,
including synchronized color settings
and transparency flattener presets

Built-in presets to create and validate
PDF/X and PDF/A

Dramatic Distiller performance
improvements

Combine multiple files into a single
PDF or a portable collection
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Acrobat 8 Professional for Design and Print
Professionals
Collaborate


Shared reviews

Server-based reviews and commenting

Enhanced review tracker

Offline reviews with automated resynching

Distribute PDF for review through RSS
feeds
New Adobe Reader enablements
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Commenting in server-based reviews
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Fill-in, submit and save forms
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Digital Signature

Easy set-up of live web-based meetings
with Acrobat Connect

Use JDF to communicate job and
process controls for design and print
consistency

Embed joboptions and preflight profiles
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Acrobat 8 Professional for Design and Print
Professionals
Control Output
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Preflight with automated corrections

JDF workflow enhancements, including
automated output and validation of
InDesign files

Editing enhancements: Object touchup,
crop pages, add watermarks and
backgrounds

Expanded support for industry standards:
PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/A

Printing enhancements: Booklet printing,
large page size capability

Native PDF workflows from creation
through output to Adobe PDF Print Engine
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Acrobat 8
Professional Demo
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Integration and Control Over End-to-End Adobe PDF
Workflow
Create
Adobe Creative Suite 2.3

Native PDF file creation
Collaborate
Adobe Acrobat 8
Professional
 Comment and Review

Common across applications

Predefined Settings

Preflight & corrections

Content preserved with
no conversions

JDF job ticket creation

Submission

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PDF/JDF workflows
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Control Output

Consume native PDF/JDF

Preview

Print
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Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium
Photoshop CS2
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Acrobat 8 Professional
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Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium
Plus
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Illustrator CS2
InDesign CS2
Acrobat 8 Professional
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Availability and Pricing
Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium plus Dreamweaver
Announce: Fall 2006 - worldwide
First Customer Ship: Fall 2006
Pricing:
Creative Suite 2.3 Premium plus Dreamweaver US $1199.00
Upgrade from CS 2 Premium
Upgrade from CS 1.X Premium or Standard
US $159.00
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