Verbalism Personified

Performing Acrobats

Coming out from a musicially inundating weekend, I was rather uninspired about starting the week in the office. Fortunately Adobe Acrobat version Six Professional came to my rescue and I spent Monday learning about it over delicious fried beef kuay teow at The Deck.

Being an Acrobat junkie since version Five, version Six provides many enhancements in the creation and editing of .pfd documents. Gone is the tedious and time consuming task of Distilling individual files before being able to combine them into a single .pdf document.

Full-featured for Macintosh and Windows, long-time Acrobaticians are most pleased with the beefed-up editing and cropping tools, highlighting stamps and built-in OCR. This version even allows embedding of QuickTime and WMA media clips into the document.

One complaint however is the time taken to launch the application. As any Photoshoper and Illustrator would tell you, the time taken to do a full load would depend on the number of plug-ins you have installed. Adobe is listening and they hope to address this issue in version Seven, due in Two Thousand and Five.

posted by Teutoburg @ 11:01 PM