Version 9 of Adobe’s Acrobat Reader has been released into the wild. Plenty of websites and small business use the software to reader, share documents with other users, or in thetechangel.com’s case – send out invoices. This version (v9) is the first reader application to allow document creators to bake movies and animation into the PDF format (Portable Document Format).
The new software (the standard and professional editions) can also embed videos, animation, maps that preserve geospatial data, 3D models, images, documents, spreadsheets, and presentation from many common formats. Plus, digital signatures, and 256-bit encryption.
As demonstrated on the right, this example shows a single PDF document viewed through Internet Explorer, with PDF documents embedded into a flash presentation. Only one file was downloaded for the whole package of PDFs, and it loaded promptly.
Whilst past versions of the software have proved to be fairly mild in terms of change, this version is by contact a big step forward.
Further to this, the upgrade is meant to load much faster than v8, solving many users main issue that it slowed down their web surfing.
It’s now available for both Windows and Mac users. The basic requirements is at least 128MB of RAM, either Windows 200 SP4 and upwards or Mac OS 10.4.11 and upwards. These specifications shouldn’t prove to be a problem for a majority of users wanting to get the free reader update.
When installing the upgrade, users on Windows needn’t worry about uninstalling the previous version, at the installer will do that for them.
Link to download Adobe Reader 9: click here
