ADOBE ACROBAT

Adobe Acrobat is the fastest and easiest way to publish business documents on-line

The growth of corporate intranets has taken the information technology industry by storm.  Web-savvy Adobe Acrobat for Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX platforms makes intranet publishing as easy, quick, and simple as printing a paper document.  It allows users to easily convert their business documents into Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files for use on corporate intranets and the Internet.  PDF is Adobe's unique, open file format that preserves the high quality look and feel of printed documents, no matter which computer platform, operating system, or fonts a recipient uses to view or print PDF files.

To solve the problem of getting paper-based legacy documents on-line, Adobe has added the Acrobat Capture plug-in to Acrobat. With the Capture plug-in, users can scan and OCR ( optical character recognize paper documents - such as faxes, news clippings, and customer correspondence - and create fully formatted, fully searchable PDF files that can be posted on-line. It does an excellent job of font recognition, so that the PDF file will very closely mimic the original page.

Acrobat software can also be used as a cross-platform image viewer. The Capture plug-in converts many different types of image files, such as TIFF, BMP, or PCX files into PDF files. Converting image files into PDF makes them readable from virtually any computer using the freely distributable Acrobat Reader.

Distribute your documents electronically to be viewed and printed anywhere - exactly as created

When you save a document in PDF with Adobe Acrobat software and distribute it electronically, you can rest easy knowing that what you created and viewed on your computer will look exactly the same to the recipient - whether you have e-mailed it to anyone, posted it on your corporate intranet or Web site or saved it on CD-ROM. It can be viewed or printed anywhere exactly as you intended.

PDF keeps fonts, formatting, color and images intact regardless of which platform or software application your recipients use, so your brand image and corporate identify will have the same look and feel online as they do in hard-copy format, regardless of what kind of computer or printer they use. All anyone needs to view and print your documents is the free Acrobat Reader. Once you get a copy, you can distribute it yourself to as many people as you like.

There's no end to the types of documents you can distribute using PDF: annual reports, product brochures, presentations, sales contracts, marketing proposals, advertising graphics, direct mail, event invitations, competitive literature, market research data and so much more. You can even add annotations, automatic Web links or security options to these documents.

When you distribute your materials online, you can also count on saving a great deal of time and money normally incurred by printing, copying, faxing and shipping hard-copy documents. There is no need for anyone to weed through numerous pages of your documents looking for what they need because PDF files are searchable and support page-at-a-time viewing. Your recipients can find and print what they need on demand.