Adobe launched its newest version of Acrobat 5.0, its flagship Acrobat, in April. In this new version, the compatibility of Chinese text is greatly improved, integration with the Internet and database is more comprehensive, and the original features of the old version are added. Both have been enhanced to make Acrobat 5.0 the tool of choice for digital printing production.
More convenient for Microsoft Office users
Compared with the old version of Acrobat, the most obvious change in the new version is the operating interface. The design of the new operating interface is somewhat similar to the style of Microsoft Office. This is an important strategy for Adobe to win Office users. After all, the most frequently documented documents for circulation and approval are commercial documents, and the most productive commercial documents are Microsoft Office users. Currently, Office users mainly use Word format files when distributing electronic files. The result of this is the formation of a network effect in Word format. Because it is necessary to install Word software to view and edit Word format files, if more people use Word format to distribute files, more people will need to install Word software. The more people install Word software, the more people use Word. If there is no external factor in the format distribution file, the whole process will be endless.
However, there are many inconveniences in using Word to distribute files. One of them is the lack of flexible settings for the use of files. By comparison, Acrobat is much more flexible in this regard. The author of the document can set the document to be read only, only print, or require the reader to input a digital signature to confirm that he has viewed it, or to set the document as not allowed to edit, to prevent the content from being modified, or even to specify that the document can only be Read on a computer. These settings are very important functions in the circulation and approval of documents. However, the old version of Acrobat failed to attract a large number of Office users due to its functional advantages. The reason is that most Office users have become accustomed to Word's operations and are not willing to spend time learning Acrobat's operations in order to circulate documents. The new layout of Acrobat5.0 is designed to overcome the psychological barriers of Office users. We believe this will increase the number of Office users who have converted to PDF distribution files, thereby increasing the market capacity of PDF files. More documents in PDF format also means that the technical barriers to digital printing are reduced. As PDF has already been processed by characters and Postscript, problems such as misplaced characters and missing images are less likely to occur. The cost of manuscript processing by digital printers will gradually decline. This benefit will benefit the entire digital printing industry, but new players will be added. Will benefit more.
In addition to changing interfaces to make Office users more adaptable, Acrobat has also strengthened integration with the Office software itself. When installing Acrobat 5.0, the installer will install two buttons to the operating interfaces of Office, namely "conventtoAdobePDF" and "conventtoAdobePDFandEmail". PDF files generated through these two buttons will be automatically added to each paragraph. Tag, which is a number of published formats, such as indicating whether the paragraph belongs to an article or a title. Digital printers can use the tags on the PDF to provide other value-added services, such as electronic file storage and retrieval. E-book production and content reuse and so on.
More convenient work team communication
As the production cycle of printing is getting shorter and shorter, the time is getting more and more pressing, and fully sharing production messages among team members has become an important means to increase efficiency. Acrobat 5.0 has done a great job in this area. Through the newly added remote annotation function, commercial users, designers, and digital printers can explain and explain the same PDF file at the same time, although they are in different locations. These comments can be electronic stickers, image highlights or voice instructions, and more. Many mistakes and delays in the production process are often caused by the failure of the parties involved in the production to communicate fully. In particular, the corrections and changes related to the images are particularly difficult to communicate. The remote annotation function of Acrobat 5.0 overcomes the problem. This is an important and difficult tool.
Chinese processing power is stronger
Since the introduction of Acrobat, the problem of Chinese fonts has been plaguing Acrobat users, because if the Chinese content is not displayed correctly, then all the benefits of electronic documents will not be realized. The Chinese problem was finally solved with two breakthroughs in Acrobat 5.0. The first breakthrough was the internal code of Chinese fonts. Version 4 of Acrobat, although capable of inputting Chinese characters, was limited to the basic Big5 character set. Chinese characters are not processed effectively. Within Acrobat, these characters and common characters can finally be processed in other Chinese characters. The second breakthrough is to be able to enter Chinese characters in a PDF form. After that, the PDF form can be used as the input front end of the Chinese database to input and issue Chinese materials.
Acrobat 5.0 does a lot of improvements in table processing. For example, you can save the input table data as an XML file, which is very convenient for its transfer and processing. In combination with digital printing, Chinese PDF forms can also provide personalized printing services. For example, a large number of different styles of art layouts are created in advance, allowing users to input their own data through the Internet, and then directly print these PDF files with user data. This is the most Best personalized printing service.
Source: Shanghai Printing Forum