MySoftwareOutlet: Software: Adobe Acrobat Standard 8.0 [OLD VERSION]

From: Adobe
Category: Software

List Price: ~~$299.00~~
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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

23 reviews
Sales Rank: 228

Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Full
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.7 x 2

MPN: 22002185
Model: 22002185
UPC: 883919018355
EAN: 0883919018355
ASIN: B000IBHHNY

Release Date: November 9, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new in DVD case. Full version identical to listing.

Customer Reviews:

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Donot buy it July 31, 2007
12 out of 13 found this review helpful

I use window vista and office 2007. The adobe 8 standard can be upgraded to 8.10 in order to create a PDF from office 2007. However I found that it is so unstable I can not use it every time. PDF is super but Adobe is not as good as its product.
Office 2007 has a add in program to create PDFs but this program does not work well especially when I produce figures and save in word 2007. It case super problem when I convert the word file to PDF. So I wish Microsoft can do something for it.

1 out of 5 stars

Unbearably SLOW!! July 25, 2007
32 out of 32 found this review helpful

This is the worst software application that I have ever purchased. It takes an average of three seconds to page up or down and an average of one second per line when scrolling through a document. It is this slow regardless of the size of the document. It is not my computer, because version 7.0 worked perfectly. My computer has a 2.6GHz processor and 1Gbyte of memory. Don't believe their marketing propaganda which claims that they have improved the operating speed over the 7.0 version. Some are blaming the performance problems on their licensing processes that are constantly running in the background. If you don't need the added features in this product stick with the free PDF readers that are available on the Internet such as Foxit.

4 out of 5 stars

simple, effective, but not overly powerful May 12, 2007
15 out of 16 found this review helpful

The product came shipped in original packaging and was easy to install. The product is invasive by nature-integrating itself into most microsoft programs. This is good if you like having constant access to the program, but bad if you want a program to use a minimal amount of computing resources (which is my inclination).
The interface is intuitive and pretty easy to get used to. The program is not especially powerful, but has yet to entertain and gliches.
Not worth it if all you need to do is print to PDF (for that, use a freebie PDF creator). But if you need to assemble PDF packages, work with the bookmarks and add security; this gig is for you. (though not very cheap).

1 out of 5 stars

Causes serious conflicts with other software applications April 5, 2007
35 out of 37 found this review helpful

I installed Adobe 8.0 at the request of a client in order to view secure docments on-line. Two serious problems were caused by this: 1) Window 2000 Outlook runing under XP would crash after the Adobe reader was launched. Closing the reader and restarting Outlook would not always fix the problem. Often the computer would require a cold re-boot.
2). More serious, Adobe 8 installation corrupted my Agilent Technologies Genesys 8 and later (Eagleware) RF simulation software tools. This resulted in the Genesys simulator to fail to find the authentication file. Because the correlation between installing Adobe was not apparent considerable amount of time was lost on this project. Adobe also causes problems with OrCAD 15 license server.

I have currently un-installed Adobe 8 had to re-install and patch previously installed Microsoft and enginnering software tools.

4 out of 5 stars

Acrobat 8.0 Vista Ready March 18, 2007
7 out of 11 found this review helpful

The 7.0 was the pits for activation. And it doesn't work with the Vista at all. I contacted Adobe so many times to try to get the 7.0 to work and finally uninstalled it. I am hoping that the 8.0 will work with the Vista. Apparently Adobe website says they have a patch for it. I have used Acrobat for 7 years and love the product. Great for web work.