Adobe announces Acrobat XI with tablet-friendly touchability, cloud services

Adobe Acrobat XI with tablet-friendly touchability, cloud services

Adobe has just updated its Acrobat lineup, including Pro, Standard and Reader to version 11 — and thrown in two new programs, FormsCentral and EchoSign, to boot. The latter two are cloud-enabled services which permit “web contracting, forms creation, data collection and analysis” according to Adobe, which didn’t yet specify exactly how that works. The company has also added improved tablet capability, and portable versions of Adobe Reader will now let you sign and save forms, as well as annotate and add comments. You’ll also be able to modify paragraphs, images and objects by dragging them around; save PDFs as PowerPoint, Word or Excel files; and add extra security measures to documents. The upgrades will ship within 30 days and cost $449 and $299 for the Pro and Standard versions, respectively — so if you’ve no time for frivolity on that new slate, check the PR for more info.

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Adobe Acrobat XI announced, boasts of cloud services

Adobe has just announced their Acrobat XI software that comes complete with cloud services, which offers a powerful new solution that includes complete PDF editing and the ability to export to Microsoft PowerPoint; in addition to boasting touch-friendly capabilities on tablets; as well as newly integrated cloud services such as sophisticated Web contracting with Adobe EchoSign and forms creation, data collection and analysis with Adobe FormsCentral.

Not only that, Acrobat XI will also support IT departments with seamless Microsoft Office and SharePoint integration, easy deployment, applications virtualization and robust application security to help provide a low cost of ownership and sound return on investment. Among the products in this particular release include Acrobat XI Pro, Acrobat XI Standard, Adobe Reader XI and newly integrated document services, Adobe FormsCentral and Adobe EchoSign.

Acrobat XI Standard will retail for $299 ($139 upgrade), while Acrobat XI Pro is tipped to cost$449 ($199 upgrade). [Press Release]

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