As Adobe released a brand new version of Acrobat (a successor to Acrobat 9), it’s time to talk over again why this application is increasingly demanded in state-of-the-art information environment.

Basically, Acrobat became an everyday tool for exchanging information and communications by means of PDF. After over 17 years of PDF (Portable Document Format) standard development, now virtually every digital document workflow is using its advantages. Let’s find out the most crucial of them.

First of all, PDF is now well-spread industry standard, which means you can open and view a PDF document on nearly every modern device without need of additional software. Be it your mobile phone, a laptop or workstation, it’s all set for handling PDF seamlessly. It has also become a rule for digital and web-publishing to use PDF for delivering articles or other compilations to the user. Whenever you share your PDF document, you may be confident that the user will be able to view or print an exact copy of it, preserving all the fonts and structure exactly how you designed it.

Acrobat makes your informational communication smarter, easier and more secure. It can create PDF documents of another industry-leading file formats, for example those of Microsoft Office. Acrobat easily assembles documents containing text, tables, images, photos, vector graphics, maps, audio, video and even 3D. A result will be a single file, which can easily be shared by sending it via e-mail or publishing on the web. Acrobat can optimize PDFs for quick web view, cancelling the necessity of waiting for the whole document to be downloaded. Instead, as soon as the first page is loaded, it is immediately shown on screen while downloading the rest of the document in the background.

A significant and valuable advantage of Acrobat PDF is that you have control of the rights that you give to the viewers of the document. For example, if you’re compiling a copyrighted material, you may want to prevent the viewers from copying the text or images from your document. This is easily done with the rights management system provided by Acrobat X. You may clearly set the restrictions which will apply to copies of your PDF document. It is possible to prevent printing or inserting anything into it. The document can be encrypted as well, meaning that no one will be able to open it without knowing the key (password) to it.

By means of Acrobat X not only can you export content as PDF from many supported applications, including word processors, spreadsheets, web browsers and more. You can also import information back from PDF documents in order to reuse or redesign the contents. All of this is made reliably and time-efficiently, which makes for a smarter and a more productive workflow.

Another valuable feature of Acrobat X is the toolset for creating PDF-based forms to be filled in by users. While leaving the text of your form untouched, users are prompted to enter the queried information to highlighted fields. As soon as a form gets filled in, it may be printed or sent.

Acrobat X allows adding bookmarks and links for easy and quick navigation through the PDF document. There are also tools for creating headers and footers as well as inserting page numbering. When collaborating with someone else, Acrobat X delivers rich tools of reviewing and commenting on each element of the document.

Be sure to try all the advantages of Acrobat X by yourself and see how it enhances and upgrades your document experience.