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Summary: I HATE HATE HATE This version
Review: I primarily use Acrobat to scan hardcopy and then edit it. This allows me to send manuscripts electronically anywhere in the world.
I skipped the 5.0 upgrade and got this instead. I have never been so sorry in all my life. I have had it a month so far and cannot get it to scan in color. Nor can I get it to accept more than 19 scanned pages at a time using the document feeder (Acrobat 4.0: 75-100 pages in True Color was no problem). The only thing better in this version is the arrows connecting the annotations to their place. Big deal. I have always preferred the text box anyway (e.g., for a general comment) and now you can't adjust the font size or type. Also, it constantly goes off the page. (Nice autowrap, not!) And to finish it all off, it is slow...slow...slow. Everything is slower. If you are going to read an online PDF using IE, go get a cup of coffee. Geez, we might as well be back in the days of dialup.
Acrobat's competitors, listen up. Now is the time to pounce!
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Summary: Makes PDF files well, has annoying features, slow, bad help
Review: Unfortunately, I think the Adobe Professional 6.0 might be the only game in town for someone who needs to convert a lot of paper documents into PDF files to post on the web. It does the job of converting scanned documents into PDF format very well. It's reasonably fast at that task. That's about the only nice thing about it. I found many, many things I did not like about the software. The help search feature is pathetic. It seems that the item I was looking for was ranked near the top in only 20% of the time. I think it's shameful that the very first customer call has to be paid for at $10 per call. I'm supposed to get one free call when I register, but only if it is one of their "known issues." How lame. I am sure the known issues does not cover a lot of real bugs in the software. Also, I tried three times but could not register. This should qualify as a "known issue." It locked up 3 of my e-mail addresses but still did not register me. The OCR ("paper capture") was really bad. Much, much worse than the free Microsoft scanner/OCR utility that is included with Windows (which had about 95% accuracy on my test page). When FineReader and Omnipage boasts greater than 99% accuracy, I can't believe how bad Adobe's OCR is. I think accuracy rates were around 50%, but I could not tell because the format I chose (to maximize the image quality that is displayed) puts the OCR results on an "invisible layer" - no kidding. I can only surmise that the OCR was bad because when I test for random words by searching for them about half the times the words were not identified although I can see them clearly from the "image layer." Headings do not seem to be identified most of the time. It seems large font gives its OCR trouble. Paper capture is also very slow. I also got "unsupported resolution" error messages when running paper capture. This is clearly a bug. When a document was scanned initially using Microsoft Photo Editor (and less frequently with Corel Painter Classic) and then it was converted to PDF using the Adobe program, it loses canvas size information. It seems to just look at the pixels, use the default twain resolution of 72 dpi or 96 dpi, and pronounce my document to be too large in inches and too low in resolution (even though the images were scanned in as 300 dpi images). I have resized the images and increase dpi with even smaller inches in the photo editor programs, but when I convert the file into Adobe PDF, the extra document density information seems to have been stripped out. I had to rescan a bunch of documents in Adobe because I could not perform paper capture on documents that were initially scanned using Microsoft Photo Editor. I got the professional version because it was supposed to give me advanced tools to edit photos within the Adobe program. It added 5 very simple tools (I think a crop and move tool). It was really, really not worth it. Get the standard version. The program also added a bunch of macros to my Microsoft Word, Excel, and Explorer programs. Now everytime I open a Word, Excel, or Explorer, it pops up a message saying some suspected Macros are trying to load. There is a noticeable delay when I click to allow the macros to load. I think this is very annoying. The only way to uninstall the macros is to uninstall the entire program and then reinstall the program without the macros. There should be a selective uninstall feature to disable each program's macros. All in all, it was a surprisingly bad experience from a company that is known for other quality programs.
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Summary: Waste of time and money.
Review: I bought the 6.0 upgrade without reading the reviews. Woe to the foolish. It slowed WORD to a crawl, brought DtSearch to it's knees, and twice locked my system up so tightly I couldn't get the task manager open.I didn't waste any additional time seeing how slow it was at its own tasks. I'll take everyone's word for it. Less than one day on the machine. I've gone back to 5.0.
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