After its takeover of Macromedia, Adobe has been able to roll the Flash player into Adobe Reader. Previous versions of Acrobat already supported the embedding of SWF content, but playback depended on the user having separately installed the Flash player. It springs from the merging of the previously separate technologies PDF and Flash, and allows Acrobat to leave its static ePaper roots behind.
The source of this new lease of life is clear. It is most obvious, however, in the new, top-of-the-range Adobe Acrobat 9 Extended package. Once you’ve set up or “georegistered” a map involves (with boundary co-ordinates and the map scale), users of Reader can interact with it by viewing the latitude and longitude coordinates, measuring distance, area and perimeter and exporting locations and measurements.This new vitality is evident in the introduction of important new features across all areas of PDF handling and across the entire range of Acrobat authoring tools. There are also new features on this front, including a dedicated 3D Reviewer and the ability to export models to 2D vector formats.Īcrobat 9 Pro Extended also adds support for an entirely new media type: maps. These can then be rotated in 3D space, relit and re-rendered and all from within the free Reader application. Well, first it takes in features formerly covered in the separately released Acrobat 3D (now discontinued), which means that you can insert a whole range of 3D models in formats such as 3DS, OBJ and DAE. So what else does Extended offer to justify its hefty price tag?
Using the Share My Screen command you can move beyond page sharing to share and discuss any currently open application with up to three users in a new browser window, though this capability isn’t actually tied to Acrobat – you can simply sign up at .Īpart from the FLV video conversion all the features described above are available not just in Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, but in Acrobat 9 Pro. Using this, you can synchronise your current page views and exchange chat messages. Use the Send and Collaborate Live command and you can email others a PDF or link that, when opened, opens up a new Collaborate Live task pane.
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