Acrobat allows users to package documents so they can be read across different hardware and OS.

Acrobat 9 comes with Adobe's video-enabling software Flash. Users can include Flash-based videos when they create and share documents with the PDF (portable document format).

With a professional version of Acrobat 9, in that user could package a PowerPoint presentation not just with images, but also with an audio of the presenter's voice.

Adobe also launched Acrobat.com, which will host Web-based software services to supports to creation and sharing the document.

The San Jose-based software maker hasn't launched a new version of the Acrobat since November 2006, almost a year after it purchased Macromedia Inc., the creator of Flash software. Users have expected to see Flash integrated into Acrobat since that purchase, Lynch said.

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