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Summary: Won't install on Dell 8200 XP Home Edition !!!!!
Review: Be very, very careful before you buy this product. Kept getting error 1303 about 3/4 of the way through when I try to install Acrobat 6 Pro on Windows XP Home Edition. Acrobat indicates in the error pane, that I do not have sufficient privileges for the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users area, and that I need to be an administrator. I am an administrator. I shut down all stuff that might be running in the background that might be accessing the above directory. The only thing I left running was the "Windows System installer" from the MSCONFIG program that comes with XP. Still no help. I even tried to install to another hard drive "H:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6, and the error comes up again saying the same thing and says it was trying to install on drive "C". What the heck's going on here? No help from Adobe or Microsoft!!! I'm going back to Version 4.
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Summary: Adobe 6.0 Pro
Review: I found this product to be well worth the upgrade. Documents look better and also compress much more effectively. The collaborative parts of this product work well. It is well worth the upgrade. I have not had the problems others have suggested in these reviews.
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Summary: Hey, Amazon & Adobe, how about fixing your info?
Review: I bought this product, but I shall never use it. In all of Amazon's ads I do not see any mention of the fact that this software is usable only with Mac OS X. On the Adobe box there is one little stick-on label that says this, but it is very small and easy to miss. It is not until you get into the "read me" files that you discover that you can't use this software with OS 8, 9, etc. By that time you have probably opened the box, inserted the CD Rom disc, and can no longer return the material. I cannot rate this software because I can't use it. On most of your other software ads you carefully list which platform and version the item is compatible with. You failed to do this here, and Adobe only did so after the customer is already committed. I'm upset. I can't afford to blow over a hundred bucks on something I can't use. (Oh, I know I can install Mac OS X, but I don't want to do that for a variety of reasons.) Bah!
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Summary: Caution for Win98, Win98SE and ME Users!
Review: If you don't already have XP or Win2K you'll need to upgrade your OS before migrating to Acrobat 6.0 Pro. The user interface alone made the upgrade worth it.
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Summary: Critical update - if you create PDF's for web use
Review: If you create PDF's for the web, then this is a must have for three reasons; first reason is due to compression. A 3.16 MB Word file created a 6.27 MB PDF in Acrobat 5. With Acrobat 6, that unaltered file is now a 3.06 MB Acrobat file. Second, that same file needed almost all links recreated in Acrobat 5 since they did not convert properly from Word. In Acrobat 6, all links were successfully converted, which saved me about 30 minutes. Third, you can create a PDF from within Internet Explorer.
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Summary: Nice, only for the refined search function....bye indexing..
Review: The caveats are, have a FAST computer and wait for the major patch that is probably coming soon. Its dreadfully slow on any MAC below 600mhz. Large document manipulation is laughable. The interface redesign is great but the looks dont cover up the fact that it feels sluggish and bloated......what is it with the "save as" function being so slow.....and I mean SLOW!!!!!I have some issues with Adobe's/Acrobat's all over the map development. One minute its for maintaining a documents integrity, the next its for collaborative review of documents. Then its for printing professionals to deliver burnable files to printing agencies.... Great product but all over the map as far as how Adobe is developing it. I'm currently involved in a project using Acrobat in creating legal documents for an impending trial. We use Acrobat HEAVILY to say the least. And I can honestly say that Adobe needs to work on a few upgrade items to make it suitable for business needs. A much more lucrative market in the long run. 1. Extractable Bookmarks: It is such a pain to extract pages and have to recreate the bookmark structure manually all over again. When you've done this for the millionth time you are pretty much convinced its a function inexcusably lacking. BTW-this upgrade does not provide the feature. 2. Printing of a documents page structure in relation to bookmarks: It would be wonderful to print or view the bookmarks in relation to the pages they map to. This would verify a logical chronology within the document vs having to literally click each bookmark to verify its link. They provide mapping views in programs like Dreamweaver or Frontpage. This seem like such a no brainer to include in Acrobat.3. Extraction of groups of documents that are not synchronus. Currently you can only extract documents that are in order. This makes for very slow going when it comes to compilling and arranging "unique" new documents. The paperless office is a long way away and Adobe made a wonderful step in that direction when it created Acrobat. However their development path has become a comedy of immediate gratification errors. They have the awesome interface, have made it astonishly simple to use....but why has no one from Adobe made an effort to approach industries, businesses, et al to research what their document needs are.? I somehow bet that Adobe is paying some idiot analyst research firm to confirm their (presupposed) notion that Acrobat is best used in the realm of the print professional vs the business environment at large. Short sighted needs being met vs mirroring the inspired leap that made Acrobat truly unique in the first place. If you are going to bloat out Acrobat why not make it a word processing, layout program suited for business. Maintaining document integrity yet creating a defacto standard when it comes to a truely editable, searchable, PAPERLESS office. Adobe gets some of the picture but they have fallen sadly short over the past few years. Once visionaries they are now satisfied attending Sybold and thinking that everyone out here is a graphics geek professional. No overt attempts at creating a product that rivals the unique and forward thinking paradim shift that Acrobat could have been developed into. They are now a corporate mill, set on satisfying stock holders and content to reap rewards in roulette wheel fashion. Meanwhile ignoring what compelled them to be unique and revolutionary in the first place. Final Analysis? Better interface, searchable Bookmarks. But wait before you buy, 6.5 may be the version to hold out for. If you currently own 5.0 it'll be fine til the fixes for 6.0 start cropping up!
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Summary: Don't can that old version yet!
Review: I would have given this product a higher rating, but I encountered a problem that I didn't have when I used version 5.05. The problem has to do with the way the document looks after it has been scanned. I've tried improving the resolution of scan but results were the same. The document comes out blurry so if you're saving it to disk for future viewing, you might have problems viewing it on a monitor. The adobe support people said to install the latest hardware drivers but that didn't correct the problem. Fortunately, the installation went without a hitch. I was able to convert webpages directly to pdf without any problems. Adobe has redesigned the appearance and feel of it windows, and it looks and feels much better. The new version installs its icons on the various tools bars (word, ie, excel just to mention a few apps). This new version also allows you to save you newly generated pdf documents in older pdf formats so they can be viewed by older versions of acrobat. I know a lot of people have had problems installing & running this program with W2K, W98 and WMe. If you purchase the upgrade version, you'll have to remove the previous version. This is not one of those traditional upgrades where the new software loads on top of the old one, and the intructions don't really tell you anything. I had to call tech support just to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong. The tech support was ok, but I would keep in mind that they charge an arm and a leg for support after the warranty is up. I have since gone back to version 5.05 because of the low quality document scans I got with 6.0. I'm plan to install it on my laptop and see if I encounter the same problem. I would strongly encourage people to visit the Adobe Acrobat Forum @ //www.adobe.com// before purchasing this software. I was amazed by the large number of problems that have been posted on adobe's forum for this new version. New software tends to come out with bugs. My hope is that adobe will come out with some maintenance releases like it did for version 5.05. I wouldn't get rid of the previous version until you actually feel comfortable with the new version.
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Summary: I just have Acrobat Reader
Review: But it still gets the job done and helps me view pdf files online when I need to. And honestly, why would someone want to have a pdf file on their computer if they can't open it? The previous reviewer is very ignorant in that regard. Of course someone would only be able to save a pdf file if they have Acrobat. It just makes sense, because how are they gonna open it without it? And if they don't wanna open it why do they even want it on their computer? You don't put things on your computer unless you want to open them. I swear, some people just don't think!!!
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Summary: It was worth the upgrade for me!
Review: Good Price here and a lot of new features and I found the new UI much easier to use. That alone was worth the upgrade! This is what I care about:
Easy Adobe PDF file creation (and it really is easy now)
Create Adobe PDF files with the click of a button from Microsoft Office applications and, for Windows users, from Internet Explorer, Microsoft Project and Visio, and AutoCAD.
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Summary: improved so far!
Review: so far, i find acrobat 6.0 more accessable and robust than previous versions. i've been using acrobat for two years now and i find newly organized old features and the new features are all great improvements to the creation and editing of PDFs. i especially like making PDFs from web pages. i use it when sites do not offer a printer-friendly format. thanks acrobat!
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