Adobe Flash
Adobe launches new version of Acrobat with Flash
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.