Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software developed by Adobe Systemsto view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).[10] All parts of the set, except Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader), are proprietary commercial programs, while the latter is available asfreeware and can be downloaded from Adobe's website.
Adobe Acrobat
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Adobe Acrobat
Screenshot of Adobe Reader X running on Windows 7
Developer(s)
Adobe Systems
Stable release
Android
10.4.2 [edit] (November 21, 2012; 49 days ago)[1]
iOS
10.4.4 [edit] (December 19, 2012; 21 days ago)[2]
Microsoft Windows RT/8 (Metro)
1.0 [edit] (December 13, 2012; 27 days ago)[3]
Microsoft Windows
11.0.01 [edit] (January 8, 2013; 1 day ago)[4]
OS X
11.0.01 [edit] (January 8, 2013; 1 day ago)[4]
Windows Phone
10.1.1.0 [edit] (September 27, 2012; 3 months ago)[5][6]
[±]
Preview release
None [±]
Written in
C++[7]
Operating system
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
GNU/Linux[citation needed]
Android
iOS
BlackBerry Tablet OS
Windows Phone
Size
Reader: 36,1 MB[8]
Acrobat Pro: 465.1 MB[9]
Type
Desktop publishing software
License
Proprietary
Acrobat: Commercial software
Reader: Freeware
Website
www.adobe.com/acrobat
get.adobe.com/reader
Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software developed by Adobe Systemsto view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).[10] All parts of the set, except Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader), are proprietary commercial programs, while the latter is available asfreeware and can be downloaded from Adobe's website. Adobe Reader enables users to view and print PDF files but has negligible PDF creation capabilities.[11] Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication.
Contents
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1 History
1.1 Product names
2 Product history
3 Adobe Acrobat/Reader for Desktop Product History
3.1 Version 1.0
3.2 Version 2.0
3.3 Version 3.0
3.4 Version 4.0
3.5 Version 5.0
3.6 Version 6.0
3.7 Version 7.0
3.8 Version 8.0
3.9 Version 9.0
3.10 Version 10.0
3.11 Version 11.0
4 Adobe Reader for Windows Tablets Product History
4.1 Version 1.0
5 Internationalization and localization
5.1 Language availability
5.2 Specific features for Arabic and Hebrew languages
6 Security
6.1 September 2006 warning
6.2 February 2009 warning
6.3 January 2010 Google/China incident
7 Operating systems
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
[edit]History
Since the early 1990s, the Acrobat product has had several competitors, some of which used their own document formats, such as:
AnyView from Binar Graphics company
Common Ground from No Hands Software company
Envoy from WordPerfect Corporation
Folio from NextPage company
Replica from Farallon Computing company
WorldView from Interleaf company
DjVu from AT&T Laboratories/DjVu Project/LizardTech/Varolmak/Caminova
By the late 1990s PDF had become the de facto standard. This has resulted in the development of both free and commercial programs that create or manipulate PDF. Adobe also allows Acrobat plug-ins to be developed by third parties, which can add extra functions to the Acrobat program.
[edit]Product names
Adobe Reader XI program icon.
Adobe has changed the names of the products of the Acrobat set regularly, also dividing, merging, or discontinuing products. Initially, the name "Acrobat" was used as the parent name of a set of products which included Acrobat Reader, Acrobat Exchange and Acrobat Distiller. Over time Acrobat Reader became Adobe Reader; and the name Acrobat Exchange was simplified to Acrobat. Between version 3 and 5, Standard and Professional versions were one product known simply as Adobe Acrobat.
As of October 2012, the current main members of the Adobe Acrobat family are:[12]
Desktop apps
Adobe Reader XI (11.0.0)
Adobe Acrobat XI (11.0.0)
Adobe Acrobat XI Standard
Adobe Acrobat XI Pro
Mobile apps
Adobe Reader for Android (10.4.2) and iOS (10.4.3)
Adobe CreatePDF for Android and iOS
Adobe Reader For Windows 8/RT Tablets (1.0)
Online services
Adobe FormsCentral
Adobe EchoSign
Acrobat.com
The computer icon for PDF files.
Adobe SendNow
Adobe CreatePDF
Adobe ExportPDF
Unlike most other Adobe products, such as parts of Adobe Creative Suite, parts of the Adobe Acrobat set do not have icons that display two letters on a colored rectangular shape.
[edit]Product history
[edit]Adobe Acrobat/Reader for Desktop Product History
[edit]Version 1.0
Acrobat 1.0 was released originally on 15 June 1993 for Macintosh computers. It was released later for the operating systems DOS andWindows 3.1. This was not available as single copies and was not initially free, with Acrobat Reader priced originally at $50 per user.[13]After a while, the Internal Revenue Service of the United States purchased a right to distribute the program Reader 1.0, effectively making it seem free to those who obtained it that way.
Adobe Acrobat 1.0 included:
Support for PDF version 1.0.
Acrobat Exchange 1.0 (included PDFWriter printer driver and Acrobat Exchange application).
Acrobat Distiller 1.0, a software application that creates a PDF file from a PostScript source.
[edit]Version 2.0
Acrobat 2.0 was first released during September 1994 for the operating systems Windows and Macintosh. It included:
Support for PDF version 1.1.
Acrobat Exchange 2.0.
Acrobat Catalog, which creates searchable indexes for PDF files. Searching required a special version of Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Exchange.
Acrobat Professional 2.0 was also released, which included Acrobat Exchange plus the program Distiller.
Adobe also released the first Acrobat Plug-ins SDK; allowing third party developers to create plug-in programs for the Acrobat Exchange application.
[edit]Version 3.0
Acrobat 3.0 was released during November 1996. It was the first release usable with Windows 95, and the last to be usable with Windows 3.1. It was also the first version to display PDF files inside web browsers, and the first to have form-filling functions. Later, an update to version 3.02 introduced extended forms capabilities and JavaScript. Adobe Acrobat 3.0 included:
Usability with PDF version 1.2.
A free Reader that allows searching (It was not part of the default copy).
Acrobat Catalog.
A Distiller printer driver.
[edit]Version 4.0
Acrobat 4.0 was released during April 1999. It included:
Usability with PDF version 1.3.
Usability, by plug-ins, with Public key infrastructure (PKI) and digital signatures.
Adobe also released Distiller Server 4.0, a version of Distiller for Windows, Linux and Solaris that is licensed to multiple users, as well as Acrobat Business Tools 4.0, a limited version of Acrobat.
[edit]Version 5.0
Acrobat 5.0 was released in May 2001. It included usability with for PDF version 1.4 and was the last version to be usable with Windows 95. Acrobat 5.0.5 was the first to be able to operative native in Mac OS X, but also operated in Mac OS 9.
This version did not include PDFWriter with the Macintosh release.[14]
Acrobat Reader 5.1, the subsequent version of Acrobat Reader usable with the Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions for forms saving.
Adobe also released Distiller Server 5.0 and Acrobat Approval 5.0, a limited version of Acrobat mainly sold to people who wanted to digitally sign PDF files or save fill-in forms.
[edit]Version 6.0
Acrobat 6.0 was released during July 2003. This version introduced significant changes to the set of Adobe Acrobat:
Adobe Acrobat Standard 6.0 was released. It is a limited version of Acrobat Professional that includes Distiller but lacks Adobe Catalog, form design features and pre-press support.
Adobe Acrobat Elements 6.0 was introduced. It enabled PDF creation but was intended for the corporate market and was onlyvolume-licensed for a minimum of 1000 licenses. It was available for Microsoft Windows only.
Acrobat Elements Server 6.0, a server software version of Acrobat Elements, was introduced.
Adobe Acrobat Reader was renamed Adobe Reader.
Distiller printer driver was renamed Adobe PDF.
PDFWriter was discontinued. PDFWriter was a printer driver used to create PDF files. It was discontinued in favor of the Adobe PDF printer driver to Distiller.
A new version of Adobe Catalog was included, which was not compatible with earlier products for searching.
Support for many operating systems was ended. Mac OS 9 was no longer compatible. No version of Adobe Acrobat for Linux or Unixwas released. Adobe Acrobat Standard was not compatible with Windows 95 and Windows 98, although it was usable withWindows 98 SE. Adobe Acrobat Professional ceased to be compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me.
This version included:
Usability with PDF version 1.5.
Usability with PKI (without a plug-in) via Microsoft CryptoAPI.
Usability with "Reader enabling", allowing Adobe Reader to save, sign or annotate PDF files if the PDF file allowed.
Version 6 of the application was criticized for its performance. Adobe Acrobat 6 is slow to load and use. The Acrobat 6 plug-ins for web browsers were also criticized for suffering from bad performance and potentially rendering one's web browser non-responsive.[15]
[edit]Version 7.0
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 was released during January 2005:[16] It was the first version to include a mandatory product activation. It included:
Usability with PDF version 1.6.
Usability with Adobe Policy Server rights management.
Usability with embedded 3D object information from the .u3d Universal 3D format.
The Adobe Acrobat 7 set experienced multiple changes. Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional for Windows now included Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0. Adobe Elements 7.0 was also released which was still only sold by volume licensing outlets but decreased the minimum licenses limit to 100 licenses. Finally, another edition of Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat 3D, was added to the set.
Adobe Acrobat 3D included all of the functionality of Acrobat Professional 7.0 as well as updated assistance for embedded 3D computer graphics, tools for capturing 3D content from OpenGL applications, and the Adobe Acrobat 3D Toolkit for converting CAD documents to PDF objects. Also included is a version of the capture tool for installation on Unix systems.
Acrobat 7 further ended usability with Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows Me. However, Adobe released editions of Adobe Reader for Linux, Solaris (SPARC only), HP-UX and IBM AIX.
[edit]Version 8.0
Adobe Reader 8 operating on Windows Vista
Adobe Acrobat 8.0 was released during November 2006.[17] It included:
Usability with PDF version 1.7.
Acrobat 8 Elements, which was withdrawn before its expected release during mid-2007.[18] But, it is bundled with RoboHelp 7 as a Distiller prompting that the product had been finished.
Acrobat Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze), a support application with online personal meeting rooms to collaborate in real time for as many as 15 participants.
A later update 8.1 on June 2007 was released in order to be compatible with Microsoft Office 2007, Windows Vista, and 64-bit Windows operating systems.[19] Also during September 2007, Adobe Reader 8.1.1 released for Linux and Solaris (SPARC) users.
The Adobe Acrobat 8 set had a few changes. Acrobat 3D was now able to produce embedded PRC file format, a very compressed format for geometry and graphics which requires Reader 8.1 to display. It also supported Product Manufacturing Information and many different CAD formats.
Acrobat Connect Professional (formerly Macromedia Breeze) was also added to the set. It allowed scalable interactive web conferencing and multiple personal meeting rooms for everyone part of an enterprise.
The Mac OS X version of Adobe Acrobat Pro was improved significantly: Adobe Acrobat for Macintosh was made a Universal binary that operated on both PPC and Intel architectures.
8.x product support ended in November 2011.[20]
[edit]Version 9.0
Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Pro Extended showing the Wikipedia article for Adobe Acrobat in PDF format for Windows 7
Adobe Acrobat 9.0 was released during July 2008.[21][22] It included:
Usability with PDF version 1.7.
Usability with Adobe extensions to PDF 1.7.
The ability to create Acrobat forms was in Acrobat Standard, which was previously only available Acrobat Professional 6, 7 and 8.
Usability for real-time collaboration on PDF files with synchronized document views and chat.
Improved Web Capture for copying entire web pages or just some parts into PDF.
Integration with Acrobat.com to enable storage and sharing of PDF files.
Usability for comparing and highlighting the differences between two versions of a PDF document.
Usability for playback of Flash Video or H.264 video in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader.
Usability for conversion of a variety of[weasel words] video formats to Flash Video for playback inside PDF.
Usability for creating PDF maps by importing geospatial files that retain metadata and coordinates.
Usability with Optical character recognition (OCR) on PDF files using ClearScan. Adobe ClearScan technology creates and embeds custom Type1-CID fonts to match the visual appearance of a scanned document after optical character recognition. ClearScan uses these newly created custom fonts instead of system fonts or Type1-MM.
The Adobe Acrobat 9 set includes a new program: Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended for Microsoft Windows. This product includes Adobe Presenter as well as the features of Acrobat 3D.
Adobe Reader 9 ends compatibility with Adobe Reader Extensions 5 and 6 which permit Adobe Reader client software to save changes to filled-in forms in PDFs. Adobe Reader Extensions 6.1 and newer are still usable. Legacy PDFs will still be viewable, however they will open with the following warning:
“
This document enables Reader capabilities that are no longer enabled in this Reader version.[23]
”
The Adobe Acrobat 9 set also omitted the multiple document interface. Previous versions of Adobe Acrobat activated multiple PDF files in the same window. Acrobat 9 however, only uses the single document interface scheme, wherein each PDF file is activated in an instance of Adobe Acrobat.[24]
[edit]Version 10.0
Adobe Acrobat X (version 10.0) was released on November 15, 2010.[25][26] It included "sandboxing" protection for Windows XP,Windows Vista and Windows 7. Compatibility was ended for Windows 2000 and Power PC based Apple Macintosh computers.
Adobe Reader X is available for Windows, Mac OS, Android, and iOS.[27][28][29][30] Compatibility with Linux is not planned.[31]
[edit]Version 11.0
Adobe Acrobat XI (version 11.0) was announced on October 1, 2012.[32] The graphical user interface for desktop systems is carried over from version 10. Some new features include a completely redesigned PDF editing experience, exporting PDF files to Microsoft PowerPoint, touch-friendly capabilities for mobile devices, and integrated cloud services. Acrobat XI was released to the market on October 15, 2012.
Adobe Acrobat XI is currently available for Microsoft Windows (XP/7/8) and Apple OS X (10.6/10.7/10.8)
Windows XP is supported by this version, but Windows Vista is not supported, despite having been released 6 years more recently than Windows XP. This decision not to support Windows Vista is further of note because Microsoft will support Windows Vista until 2017, but unless Adobe changes its decision, there will be no Adobe Acrobat version supported for Windows Vista after Adobe Acrobat X reaches its end of life in 2015. Meanwhile, Microsoft ends support of Windows XP in 2014, but Adobe Acrobat XI will not reach its end of life until 2017.
[edit]Adobe Reader for Windows Tablets Product History
[edit]Version 1.0
Metro application of Adobe Reader inWindows 8.
Adobe Reader (Version 1.0) was released on the Microsoft Windows Store on the second week of December 2012.[33] Adobe Reader for Windows 8 tablets, based on the Adobe Reader Mobile engine found in the iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows phone versions, is the first application written by Adobe Systems for the Windows 8/RT Metro Style interface. The current versions offers only basic PDF reading features, subsequent patches will bring more complex features to catch up with the more feature complete iOS and Android versions. Adobe Reader for Windows Tablets supports both ARM and Intel x86/x86_64 architectures and can be used both via touch and the more classic keyboard+mouse combination. The main features are:
Windows 8 Native App and UI
Semantic Zoom to jump between pages
Bookmarks and search feature
Opening password protected PDF
Select and Copy text
[edit]Internationalization and localization
[edit]Language availability
Adobe Acrobat is available in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian. Arabic, Hebrew versions available from WinSoft International,[34] Adobe Systems'internationalization and localization partner.
[edit]Specific features for Arabic and Hebrew languages
The Arabic and Hebrew versions are developed specifically for these languages, which are normally written right-to-left. These versions include special TouchUp properties to manage digits, ligatures option and paragraph direction in right-to-left Middle Eastern scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian, as well as standard left-to-right Indian scripts such as Devanagari and Gujarati. The Web Capture feature can convert single web pages or entire web sites into PDF files, while preserving the content's original text encoding. Acrobat can also copy Arabic and Hebrew text to the system clipboard in its original encoding; if the target application is also compatible with the text encoding, then the text will appear in the correct script.
[edit]Security
The latest security bulletins from Adobe are published on their Security bulletins and advisories page.[35] There have been security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat on Jan. 10, Apr. 10, and Aug. 14 of 2012, as well Jan. 8, 2013.[36]
From Version 3.02 onwards, Acrobat Reader (now Adobe Reader) has included support for JavaScript. This functionality allows a PDF document creator to include code which executes when the document is read. Malicious PDF files that attempt to attack security vulnerabilities can be attached to links on web pages or distributed as email attachments. While JavaScript is designed without direct access to the file system to make it "safe", vulnerabilities have been reported for abuses such as distributing malicious code by Acrobat programs.[37] McAfee predicted that Adobe software, especially Reader and Flash, would be the primary target for software attacks during 2010.[38] Adobe applications had already become the most popular client-software targets for attackers during the last quarter of 2009.[39]
[edit]September 2006 warning
On September 13, 2006, David Kierznowski provided sample PDF files illustrating these vulnerabilities. Since at least version 6, JavaScript can be disabled using the preferences menu and embedded URLs that are launched are intercepted by a security warning dialog box to either allow or block the website from activating.[40]
[edit]February 2009 warning
On February 19, 2009, Adobe released a Security Bulletin announcing JavaScript vulnerabilities. US-CERT recommended users change two default preferences in the program:[41]
Disable JavaScript in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Acrobat JavaScript can be disabled in the General preferences dialog (Edit, Preferences, JavaScript, and un-check "Enable Acrobat JavaScript").
Disable the displaying of PDF documents in the web browser. This can be disabled in the General preferences dialog (Edit, Preferences, Internet, and un-check "Display PDF in browser").
For users of Internet Explorer, US-CERT recommended changing an additional default behavior:[41]
Prevent Internet Explorer from automatically opening PDF documents (by editing a registry key in Microsoft Windows).
[edit]January 2010 Google/China incident
It was reported [42] on January 14, 2010 that an analyst identified a vulnerability in Internet Explorer as a method of spying on companies and individuals.
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