Acrobat 8 Pro can detect form fields even in scanned documents。

Acrobat 8 Professional is the best out there!!! Very easy to install... Just read the "Read Me" and it'll work, dont skim through it.. Read it!!


When Acrobat 8 Professional says enter the activation number, you take the number on Acrobat has listed and enter it on the Key gen (where its blank) then hit activate on teh key gen. Take that number and enter it into acrobat and presto, you're ready to rock!!

I'll state this upfront: I find many of the changes in Acrobat 8 Professional inexplicable. Although the entire package is fairly pricey ($499; upgrade $159) and was traditionally aimed at high-level users and print production folks, this version's "improvements' are aimed at, um, well, I couldn't really identify a target audience. Some of the changes may confuse and frustrate long-time print-production professionals while adding features that most businesses may not need.

Acrobat 8 Professional software empowers educators and students to reliably create, combine, share, and control media-rich Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure communication, collaboration, and timesaving electronic workflows.

With Acrobat 8 Professional, Adobe offers a redesigned, Universal version of its flagship application for creating and distributing PDF (Portable Document Format) content. The new release focuses on and underscores the growing importance of collaboration and digital document management.

With this version, which will be part of Creative Suite 3, Mac users now have only one choice: Acrobat 8 Professional. Once you get over the loss of the Standard edition, you'll probably love what you see. First and foremost, it looks and feels like a true Mac OS X application. It sports a redesigned, task-oriented user interface with customizable toolbars. And, on Intel Macs, Acrobat 8 Professional feels remarkably faster than its predecessor.

Acrobat 8 Pro introduces some innovative new features. For example, the new Combine Files wizard makes it easy to arrange a set of files and merge them into a single PDF document or assemble them into a PDF package (a container for multiple documents). A PDF package preserves the security settings of the original files, such as digital signatures, and can protect its contents with additional security features.

Acrobat 8 Pro can also create a blank-page document, and it gives you some basic tools to add text to it right away.

While Mac users can participate in any kind of shared review, they are at a disadvantage when it comes to initiating one. Acrobat 8 Pro on the Mac can't set up a shared review on a MS Office SharePoint server. Acrobat 8 Pro lets Mac users set up a shared review on a network folder or on a WebDAV server, such as Adobe's Version Cue CS2 or .Mac. However, in order to set up a network folder, you must first start Windows File Sharing on a Mac in your workgroup because the program does not support Personal File Sharing.

Adobe went to great lengths to ensure feature parity across platforms. Even so, Acrobat 8 Pro on the Mac is not equivalent in every way to the Windows version. For example, Acrobat 8 for Windows can incorporate Adobe Flash, Windows Media, RealMedia, and QuickTime files in a PDF document. In the Mac version, support for including multimedia content is limited to QuickTime. However, Acrobat can play Flash, Windows Media 9, and RealMedia content created on a PC-if you have the software installed on your Mac.

Editing, distributing, and processing PDF forms has been much improved in this version. . Acrobat 8 Pro can detect form fields even in scanned documents, compile returned forms, flatten forms with data (remove the form fields while retaining the filled-in data), merge data files into a spreadsheet, and automatically track the distribution of forms.

Acrobat 8 Professional allows you to add functionality to Adobe Reader by enabling extended usage rights in a particular PDF file. You can give users of the free Adobe Reader rights to review, comment and mark-up a PDF, save filled-in form data, and digitally sign the document either in an existing signature field (Adobe Reader 7) or anywhere on the page (Adobe Reader 8). Previously, the ability to sign and save PDF form data in Adobe Reader required Adobe's LiveCycle Reader Extensions Server, an enterprise product with a $75,000 price tag.

Acrobat 8 Professional introduces redaction tools to ensure that no sensitive information ever leaves your desk. Using Mark for Redaction or Search and Redact commands, you can specify which information remains private. You can also send pending redactions to colleagues for approval. In addition, Acrobat 8 can detect and redact metadata, hidden text layers, and comments.

Another highlight of this release is the much-improved preflight engine, which debuts the corrective preflight profiles feature. Acrobat's support for PDF/A-the ISO (International Standards Organization) archiving standard-has been improved to help you preserve important documents. Last but not least, Acrobat's Preflight supports PDF/X-4, a pending standard which will likely define the future of commercial printing.