Today Adobe launched the free public beta version of Acrobat.com, a Web-based supplement to its popular PDF document creation application. The new site offers an array of services to help businesses share and collaborate on documents. It also supports basic Web conferencing (including desktop sharing) and limited free conversion of documents to PDF format.
Acrobat.com works well with the beta version of Acrobat 9 (also announced today), which includes menus for sharing and collaborating on documents. The final version of Acrobat 9 is scheduled to ship in July, along with a new version of Adobe Reader.
But even if you don’t use Adobe’s desktop apps, you can get a lot of mileage from Acrobat.com if you work with others to create documents. I was able to test most of the beta Acrobat.com features last week, and found them to be an excellent mix of services for remote collaboration.
Acrobat.com has four principal components: a word processor called Buzzword; online file sharing via a feature called Share; a file converter that lets you convert up to five documents per month, free, to PDF format (offered within Share); and ConnectNow for personal Web conferencing. Adobe also makes APIs available for developers so they can create service mash-ups more easily.
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