With Acrobat 9, Adobe gets it right, throwing wide the gates of data collection and opening PDF forms to everyone. Connecting PDF forms to an automated data collection process required server software often too technical or too pricey for small- to mid-sized businesses. Saving those attachments and aggregating them into a database or database-ready format was tedious. Collecting respondent data usually meant receiving results one at a time as e-mail attachments. Regardless of how easy it was to create forms, the post-creation tasks were always what hindered widespread adoption. Acrobat 9 also offers improved field recognition and auto-creation, and the ability to preview a form before finalizing it. A new Forms Editing mode replaces the Forms toolbar with a dedicated, streamlined workspace strictly for building and editing forms. Anyone could create a form in previous versions of Acrobat in Acrobat 9, creating and editing forms is even easier.
Acrobat’s performance is improved over the previous version, with the application launching in about half the time.Īdobe has struggled for years to promote PDF forms as a viable alternative to HTML forms.
Most common tasks are accessible from the main toolbar via drop-down menus for instance, the Create menu includes commands to create PDFs from a file, scanner, Web page, the clipboard contents, or by combining multiple PDFs into one. It has the same love-it-or-hate-it user interface, with large, colorful toolbar buttons that are reminiscent of Microsoft Word’s. Menus and toolbars are largely the same, though thankfully tidied up a bit. Already using Acrobat 8? You’ll be proficient in Acrobat 9 with almost no learning curve. The new version of Acrobat should be easy for anyone, even those with no Acrobat experience, to use out of the box. Business workgroups producing PDF files for review or data collection will definitely want to consider Acrobat 9. Minor to moderate improvements and enhancements abound for all, but Acrobat 9 is aimed primarily at streamlining document collaboration and review, with the goal of easing forms creation and distribution running a close second. There are no major improvements for creating and distributing basic or even signed or certified PDF documents, nor will design and print industry workers discover anything added or significantly improved for them. Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro (not Professional, just Pro) is a smaller update with a narrower focus. Adobe’s Acrobat 8 Professional ( ), saw major leaps forward in nearly every function and feature of the august PDF creator.
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