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New Feature Highlights
The best way to share There’s much more to Adobe Acrobat 5.0 software than simply creating Adobe Portable Document Format
documents online (PDF) files.

New features and enhancements in Acrobat 5.0 significantly extend electronic document sharing throughout
enterprises and over the Internet, helping business users and graphics professionals save time and effort. Large
corporations and small businesses alike can share content easily, reliably, and securely. Extended workgroups
can work together by adding comments and approving documents via the Web. And the tight integration
between Acrobat and Microsoft Office for Windows lets any business user easily create Adobe PDF files. From
design drafts to legal contracts, Acrobat 5.0 is the best way to share documents online.

Save Time by Repurposing Content

Acrobat 5.0 software takes advantage of a more robust Adobe PDF format, enabling you to share not only
your electronic documents but the contents of those documents as well.

Save as RTF—You can save an Adobe PDF provided by colleagues or obtained from Web research as a Rich
Text Format (RTF) file, then easily incorporate text from the RTF file into reports and presentations.

Extract images—Acrobat 5.0 lets you enable colleagues to extract images from Adobe PDF documents and
save them as TIFF, JPEG, or PNG files. The images can then be incorporated into word processing, presenta-
tion, page layout, HTML, and other files. Each exporting format provides additional options for fine-tuning
the conversion. When exporting to JPEG, for example, you can determine the compression quality (Mini-
mum, Low, Medium, High, Maximum), resolution (from 72 to 600 dpi), and other settings.

Save as images—With Acrobat 5.0, you can quickly convert an Adobe PDF file into images simply by saving
to the TIFF, JPEG, or PNG formats.
Acrobat converts each page of the Adobe
PDF file into a separate image file in the
chosen format. Acrobat also lets you save
Adobe PDF files as PostScript and En-
capsulated PostScript files. Many of
these options offer specific export set-
tings for more efficient, reliable file
conversion. The PostScript option, for
instance, lets you save to PostScript
Language Levels 1, 2, or 3; convert
TrueType to Type 1 fonts; select a trans-
parency level; and more.

Open as Adobe PDF—Acrobat 5.0 makes

converting files in other formats to
Adobe PDF easier than ever. Using the
Open As Adobe PDF command, you can The Save As dialog box converts Adobe PDF files to other formats, such as RTF,
when you select the format from a drop-down menu.
quickly convert BMP, Compuserve GIF,
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HTML, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TIFF, and text files into new Acrobat PDF files or add them to existing Adobe PDF
documents. You can determine the color and grayscale JPEG compression settings when converting image
formats.

Protect Shared Documents

Legal contracts, competitive bids, design proposals and other business documents are often confidential. Acro-
bat 5.0 software provides enhanced protection and controls so you can securely share sensitive documents
online.

Add password protection—Acrobat now supports 128-bit encryption, allowing you to control access to docu-
ments by assigning passwords using the highest level of protection possible. You can also set encryption to the
40-bit level, which allows a secure Adobe PDF file to be opened with earlier versions of Acrobat.

Add digital signatures—Acrobat 5.0 supports a flexible digital signature architecture that allows third-party
digital signature and PKI vendors such as Entrust®, VeriSign™ and CIC® to seamlessly and consistently plug
into Acrobat and enable eSignatures on an Adobe PDF file. In addition, Acrobat provides an out-of-the box
Public-Private Key solution for workgroups in which a third-party Certificate Authority is not required.

New in Acrobat 5.0 is the ability to easily request and exchange your certificates with colleagues from within
Acrobat via e-mail. Also new is the ability to use your colleague’s certificates (public keys) as encryption keys.
By doing this, you can secure an Adobe PDF file so that only specified people may open it.

Easy access to Acrobat tools

Acrobat 5.0 provides a variety of customizable, Microsoft Office-like toolbars that provide quick access to commonly used
tools.

A. Menu bar; B. File toolbar; C. Navigation toolbar ; D. View history toolbar; E. Viewing toolbar; F. Adobe Online button;
G. Basic Tool toolbar; H. Commenting toolbar; I. Editing toolbar ; J. Tab palettes; K. Navigation pane; L. Status bar; M. Document pane
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Restrict printing and changes—The Acrobat Standard Secu-

rity feature lets you block others from printing a document
and from repurposing or changing its contents, including the
addition of comments.

Precisely set security controls—Acrobat 5.0 software offers

highly flexible security settings that let you determine exactly
which actions, if any, viewers of an Adobe PDF file can take.
You can prevent others from changing a document, for ex-
ample, yet still allow them to add comments or digitally sign
the document.

Using Standard Security and 128-bit encryption,

Review and Share Comments Online Acrobat lets you restrict printing entirely, not at all,
or allow printing only at low resolution, among
With Acrobat 5.0, multiple users can view and add comments other options.
to the same Adobe PDF document from within their Web
browsers, which can significantly accelerate the document
review process. Graphics professionals can use Web-based document review cycles with their clients and
colleagues, thereby saving money by reducing the costs associated with printing and approving comps.

Work within a browser—With Acrobat 5.0 installed, you can open Adobe PDF files from within a Web
browser and access Acrobat tools to comment on the document in the browser.

Share comments online—Sharing comments online can be implemented easily because the process works
with a variety of standard protocols, such as WebDistributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV). If your
workgroup doesn’t already have a shared data repository, you can easily set one up using a shared network
folder, ODBC, or Microsoft Office Server extensions.

Working within a Web browser

With Acrobat 5.0, you can use Acrobat tools to comment on and digitally sign Adobe PDF files within a Web browser. The Adobe PDF
file shown below was opened in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Notice that most Acrobat features and tools are available for use within
Internet Explorer. The Signatures palette at left displays information about the eSignatures in the document.

Internet Explorer toolbars

Adobe Acrobat toolbars

Digital
Acrobat navigation pane signature

Comment added
with the Note tool
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Migrate Forms to the Web

Acrobat 5.0 software helps businesses securely move paper-based forms to a more convenient, reliable,
timesaving electronic process.

Create live electronic forms—Create interactive business forms (such as employee-benefits enrollment
forms) that maintain the look and feel of the paper version, saving employee training time and expense.
Acrobat forms can be linked to a data-
base or to a Web server, enabling users to
fill out forms in a Web browser.

Publish dynamic forms online—Acrobat

lets you create Adobe PDF forms on the
Web or a server with fields that change
dynamically, depending upon the data
that is input. If an employee filling out a
health-insurance form indicates he has
children, for example, the form could
generate on the fly new fields for gather-
ing information about his dependents.

Support for XML form data—Data from

Adobe PDF forms can be submitted in
the Web-standard XML (Extensible
Markup Language) format, making it
With Acrobat 5.0, you can create interactive forms that maintain the look and
easy to integrate Adobe PDF forms with feel of the paper-based version and are linked to a database or Web server.
back-end systems.

Automatically calculate and validate data—Adobe PDF forms have the ability to perform automatic calcu-
lations such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication. You have the option to validate data (such as a
social security number) in an Adobe PDF form before it is entered into the database system.

Spell-check—Acrobat 5.0 can spell-check individual form fields and comments using a variety of dictio-
naries included with Acrobat.

Digitally sign forms—Acrobat 5.0 enables you to digitally sign forms. This feature is especially useful for
forms such as expense reports that require multiple approvals and signatures.

Make Documents Accessible

Acrobat 5.0 software lets you create Adobe PDF documents that are accessible to those with disabilities.

Support for high-contrast—Acrobat fully supports high-contrast settings, which enable workers with low
vision impairments to more easily read Adobe PDF documents.

Support for screen readers—Acrobat 5.0 lets you create documents that are compatible with third-party,
Windows-based screen readers, such as Henter-Joyce’s JAWS and Window-Eyes from GW Micro, Inc.
Screen readers synthesize text into speech.

Keyboard shortcuts—Acrobat Reader software enables functionality to be controlled through keyboard

shortcuts, making it easier for people with a broad range of disabilities to take full advantage of Acrobat.
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Support for high-contrast settings in Acrobat 5.0 enables workers with low vision impairments
to more easily read Adobe PDF documents.

Enhanced Output and Color Controls

Acrobat 5.0 includes a number of enhancements that help graphics professionals be more productive.

Tight Adobe integration—Through its integration with other Adobe programs, Acrobat 5.0 helps graphics
professionals build consistent, reliable document workflows. For example, Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop® 6.0,
and Adobe Illustrator® 9.0 support the Adobe Color Engine, Adobe’s core color-management technology.
Sharing the same color management system provides a consistent user experience and reliable color when
converting files between programs. In addition, Acrobat 5.0 and the updated Adobe PDF version 1.4 support
transparent objects, enabling you to view and print Adobe PDF files with transparencies created in Illustrator
9.0 or Photoshop 6.0. And an Adobe PDF file can be opened in Illustrator for further edits and enhancements.

Print efficiently—Acrobat enables you to save production time and money by tiling areas of an oversized page
for printed output. As a result, large documents such as posters or 11 x 17 spreads can be printed easily on
standard 8.5 x 11 or A4 paper for review and proofing.

Advanced print controls—In the enhanced Print dialog box, you can print odd and even pages; rotate and
center pages; specify overlap; print ICC colors as device colors; emit halftones, transfer functions, and
undercolor removal/black generation; and select transparency quality.

Preview overprinting—Preview the effects of overprinting either on-screen inside Acrobat or by printing from
Acrobat to a composite printer.

Work Smarter
Acrobat 5.0 software helps you be more productive in your work.

Gather research data from the Web—The Web Capture command in Acrobat lets you convert single Web pages
or an entire Web site into Adobe PDF files with all links intact. Once converted, you can send Web pages to
colleagues for convenient, offline review and approval and create an archival record of a Web site over time.
Acrobat now lets you capture pages with Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript.

Consistent Adobe PDF creation—Acrobat automatically installs a Convert to Adobe PDF icon within Microsoft
Office applications (on Windows PCs only). Clicking the icon converts Office documents to Adobe PDF files
Convert to Adobe PDF (left);
Convert to Adobe PDF and using the robust Acrobat Distiller, providing more consistent, reliable results. A second icon, Convert to Adobe
Email (right)
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PDF and Email, converts an Office document into Adobe PDF format and automatically attaches the file to a
new message in your default e-mail program.

Customizable toolbars—Acrobat 5.0 includes multiple Microsoft Office-like toolbars that provide fast access
to tools. Toolbars can be hidden or displayed. You can drag a toolbar away from its default position to relocate
it on the main menu bar or drag a toolbar into the document pane to turn the toolbar into a floating palette.
New toolbars include Commenting and Editing.

Powerful batch processing—Acrobat 5.0 lets you apply

virtually any Acrobat function to a large collection of Adobe
PDF files. You have the ability to easily create sequences of
predefined actions and to write your own actions using
JavaScript. Among the batch processing options already
provided in Acrobat 5.0 are Create Thumbnails; Remove File
Attachments; and Save All as RTF.

When running a batch operation, you can specify how the

resulting files should be named; choose to overwrite the
existing files that are being altered in the batch operation;
Acrobat 5.0 lets you create, edit, rename, and delete
and save the processed files in Adobe PDF, PostScript, EPS, batch sequences.
TIFF, JPEG, PNG, or RTF formats.

Analyze and repair documents—The new PDF Consultant tool

provides easy access to Adobe and third-party plug-ins designed to
inspect, analyze, and repair Adobe PDF documents. PDF Consult-
ant operations can be used with the Batch Processing command
and automatically applied to Adobe PDF files. You can write your
own PDF Consultant operations using JavaScript as well. The PDF
Consultant operations included are:

Detect and Remove searches for noncritical or unwanted docu-

ment elements, such as JavaScript actions, image alternates, and file
attachments, which can then be listed in a report or removed;

Audit Space Usage provides a report of the total number of bytes

used for specific document elements, including fonts, images,
bookmarks, forms, named destinations, and comments, as well as
the total file size. The results are reported both in actual bytes as
well as percentage of the total file size; The Audit Space Usage command in the PDF
Consultant analyzes the elements of Adobe
PDF files and provides a percentage break-
Optimize Space helps decrease the size of a PDF file by removing down of each element’s byte size.

any invalid bookmarks, links, or unused named definitions.

Find comments—The new Find Comments command lets you search text in comments.

Filter comments—Acrobat 5.0 lets you display comments in a document filtered by author, date modified,
and comment type (such as stamp or highlighted text).

Enhanced navigation palettes—The Acrobat navigation palettes, located to the left of the document pane,
You can add styles to bookmarks have been enhanced to quickly provide helpful information about a file. The Bookmarks palette can now
for quick identification. In this
document, for instance, book- differentiate bookmarks such as subheads with color, bold, or italic. The Thumbnails palette generates thumb-
marks to charts are shown in nails of pages in an Adobe PDF file on the fly, making it easy to navigate lengthy documents that didn’t have
italics and purple, while book-
marks for data sheets are in thumbnails already embedded in them.
italics and blue.
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Acrobat 5.0 provides additional menu options for each palette. With the Thumbnails palette selected, for
System Requirements example, a Thumbnail drop-down menu makes it easy to choose between small and large thumbnails; insert,
Windows extract, replace, delete, rotate, or crop pages; and more.
• Intel ® Pentium® class proces-
sor
• Microsoft® Windows® 95 OSR Create custom search criteria—Create and embed metadata in an Adobe PDF file, thus expanding the ways
2.0, Windows 98, Windows
Millennium Edition, Windows the file can be searched. eBook publishers can add a metadata field, for example, that enables digital books to
NT® 4.0 with Service Pack 5 or 6, be searched by ISBN numbers. Metadata is written in XML, which means the metadata in Adobe PDF files
or Windows 2000
• 32 MB of RAM (64 MB recom- can be indexed by Internet search engines.
mended)
• 115 MB of available hard-disk
space
• Additional 70 MB of hard-disk
Install and Maintain Acrobat Across an Enterprise
space for Asian fonts (optional) Acrobat 5.0 software helps IT professionals save time and effort when deploying or updating Acrobat across a
• CD-ROM drive
networked enterprise.

Macintosh
• PowerPC™ processor Easy deployment and maintenance—The Acrobat installer has been designed with the intent to work with
• Apple® Macintosh® OS 8.6*, network deployment tools, allowing IT professionals to install Acrobat over a network to thousands of desk-
9.0.4, or 9.1
• 32 MB of RAM (with virtual top machines. Acrobat can automatically notify users if an update to the software is available. IT managers
memory on) (64 MB recom-
mended)
can configure the update notification feature to work from a server inside their firewall or disable the feature
• 105 MB of available hard-disk entirely.
space
• Additional 70 MB of hard-disk
space for Asian fonts (optional) Configurable installations—IT professionals can configure the Acrobat installer to determine the Acrobat
• CD-ROM drive
functionality and user preferences to be deployed to one or multiple users. For example, Acrobat could be
* Some features may not be
available due to OS limitations. installed in the accounting department configured to add comments online using a specified server. The
ability to configure the installation of Acrobat provides IT professionals with greater control over how their
companies’ resources are employed and reduces support time.

Enhanced for lockdown environments—Acrobat 5.0 has been enhanced to work in lockdown desktop envi-
ronments in which users don’t have full administrator privileges.

Support for Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services—Adobe PDF files can be viewed and printed when
Acrobat is run from a server in a Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services environment.

Availability and Pricing

Adobe Acrobat 5.0 is expected to ship in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan in the second quarter of 2001.
The estimated street price is $249 (U.S.) for all platforms. Registered users of previous Acrobat versions can
upgrade to Acrobat 5.0 for $99 (U.S.).

About Adobe Systems

Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems Incorporated (www.adobe.com) builds award-winning software solutions
for Network Publishing, including Web, print, video, wireless and broadband applications. Its graphic design,
imaging, dynamic media and authoring tools enable customers to create, manage and deliver visually rich,
reliable content. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Adobe is the second largest PC software company in the
U.S., with annual revenues exceeding $1.2 billion.

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