Filed under: Software, Universal Binary
Adobe shipping Acrobat 8
Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Acrobat 8 (Universal Binary!), both Standard and Professional versions. Acrobat 8 Pro costs $449 USD, or $159 for qualifying upgrades, while Acrobat 8 Standard is a$299 or $99 for upgrades. You'll need Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.This version "introduces several major innovations for professionals in a wide variety of areas, such as architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), IT, legal, marketing, manufacturing, and publishing" and enables users to "effectively engage with the rich, high-value information in PDF documents and forms, and more reliably and securely drive their work to completion leveraging the ubiquitous, free Adobe Reader software."
The free Adobe Reader 8 is expected to be released in early December 2006 and Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium will include Acrobat 8 Pro, as well as Dreamweaver 8 when it ships this month - although the rest of the Suite isn't UB yet.
The Acrobat family has 4 versions now - Acrobat Pro, Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Elements (Windows) and Acrobat 3D (Windows). Plus, the free Adobe Reader. Figuring out which one is really the best for your needs involves using this product comparison matrix. If you want to be able to create forms, for example, you'll need to spring for the Pro version. UPDATE: An older press release indicates that Acrobat 8 Standard isn't even available for the Mac, but it's not really clear to me on Adobe's website. If true, that really sucks. Way to show your continued support for Mac users, Adobe! Care to defend that, John Nack? More details as we get them...
Adobe also announced the immediate availability of a free trial of the Acrobat Connect, a hosted service and the first web conferencing and collaboration solution to offer "always-on" personal meeting rooms.
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Thomas Deliduka said 9:48AM on 11-02-2006
Amazon has the Standard Version upgrade for WINDOWS for 89 bucks. But no Mac version except Acrobat Professional. sheez.
Reply
Brady J. Frey said 11:48AM on 11-02-2006
How microsoft of them to have multiple variations of one product to make more money, so sweet...
Reply
Tom said 11:41AM on 11-02-2006
I have attempted to download the trial version, but only the windows version of Acrobat 8 is available. Also looking the the pages, 8 professional has the "universal binary" logos, while 8 standard has none.
Reply
Digger said 5:47PM on 11-02-2006
Are they kidding with those prices for an upgrade? Who needs another goddamn adobe upgrade. Just another tax on a loyal adobe customers who has shells out thousands over the years.
All I want is a Macintel native version of Creative Suite.
Reply
bob said 9:43PM on 11-02-2006
And I'm sure it will be crippled with that God-awful activation code protection that makes v7 Pro so nice to deal with. I used to like Adobe. Now, though, ...
Reply