Adobe Acrobat Pro - 8.1.3

Looking at the Adobe website, it says that this is for Windows. Period.

Would it really be so hard to use the Macintosh interface on the Macintosh version of Acrobat? Other companies do it with far more complex software. But for some reason, Adobe can't figure it out.

I updated to Pro 8.0 a few months ago. Adobe Standard 7.09 (well, actually it was 7.0, and I had to do about 6 patches to get it to .09) that came with with my Fujitsu scanner (a very good product by the way). Now, there had been no security updates for 7.09 for months and months, which is the reason I bought pro. Lo and behold, three months after after acrobat 8 pro is released (you can't buy standard for the mac anymore; that would be too cheap!), Adobe releases 7.1, which has security updates. This seems like absolutely unethical behavior. Now that 9 is out, with useless features (how many users really need to put flash in their adobe documents? Come on! And a lot of this collaborative stuff was in Adobe 8.1 already), they can end-of-life the 7 series. So security updates will come out quickly for 9, and slowly for 8.1 (I bet). The cost for me to update my several month old Adobe Pro? $159. $159 for an update! Geez, generous. This program not only eats money, but devours memory and disk space like a champ. Avoid, avoid, avoid. I'm sure 9 will be worse. And it is unclear how to do the simplest operations. I was trying to add text, and it told me I didn't have the font in my system, therefore I couldn't add text. Well then give me an easily found setting to use some other font! And recently distiller crashed trying to print a simple document. Grrr, I hate this program, and this company.

Adobe products continue to get worse and worse and Acrobat is notorious for paving the way. Adobe Acrobat 9 is no exception. The Microsoft-esque marketing is downright embarassing, i.e., Standard, Pro, and Pro Extended, with Standard and Pro Extended being Windows only but Pro is for both Mac and Windows – such a nice little convoluted touch that many are coming to expect from Adobe. Once upon a time Adobe was a reputable company who focused on quality; the Adobe of today is a testament to the unavoidable life-cycle of a growing company—that which was once Roman…

PROS
A new version is another step towards the enlightenment of unaware users. Yet another version of Acrobat, further bloated with more needless bells and whistles, increases the chance that unaware users will begin to recognize the deceptive pattern and begin to realize they deserve and should demand better for their money.

CONS
- Transparent marketing scheme reveals more effort invested in smoke screen than product quality (think introduction of the “CS” racket-ah the Bruce Chizen legacy lives on)
-Upgrade pricing schemes are asinine-why customers put up with it I have no idea
- WIth the currently burgeoning, more sophisticated mobile computing experience, the world is in need of a more optimized format and in turn more responsible tools that don’t promote the addition of senseless, resource wasting features.
- Adobe continuing their love for feature creep

Despite what previous reviewer seemed to find- apparently version for mac is available the adobe download page has some comments that apply only to windows not to say that only windows version is available

however $200 to upgrade from 6 month old professional version is criminal