Existing users, 
Having recently switched from Windows to Mac for work, I can't believe the incompatibilities between the Mac and Windows version of Acrobat (I'm using Mac Acrobat Pro 7.0.1).
For example:
1) Windows has a special form design tool. No such animal for Mac.
2) In Windows, you can create a PDF of any Office doc from within Acrobat (File/Create PDF/From File). Not so with Mac.
It seems all I've been doing lately is finding that the 'bugs' I think I'm experiencing are basically lack of capability.
Did the same company develop this product? Can anyone explain why the Mac product is inferior?
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Contributed by: wkg Tuesday, May 24 2005 @ 10:16 AM PDT
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Incompatibilities Mac vs. Windows - macwiseguy
Talk to Adobe... Mac was the platform of choice originally, but since buying other players, they just care way too much about PC's and we Mac user's are bastard children. They make good aps, its just if you going to have a truly portable document product, make it as user friendly on every platform or just don't have it. You can make a PDF from any program on the Mac. You just print and generate the PDF in the Print-Dialog window or use Distiller which is still the best way to generate a clean PDF. Office PDF's suck as the colors are always wrong, especially in the Print world.Forms have always been clunky no matter what platform you use. PC has had the edge for the last 3 versions (no surprise) 7 did come along way in speed and functionality but it is not the end all. Give me the original application files anyday.
Mark
Monday, June 27 2005 @ 12:50 PM PDT
Incompatibilities Mac vs. Windows - swaters
In Mac OS X ALL programs will produce PDF files without Acrobat. It's build into the print function.Monday, June 27 2005 @ 01:25 PM PDT
Incompatibilities Mac vs. Windows - KeesW
yeah sure, for the regular joe, the pfd-s os x spits out will do fine. but if you rely on color consistency and reliable vector path, distiller/acrobat is still the only game ion town.Acrobat did install a create pdf button in all of my MS Office toolbars, though, so i don't know what the person that switched to Mac is talking about.
Monday, June 27 2005 @ 01:57 PM PDT
Incompatibilities Mac vs. Windows - Swift2
Thing is, all you need to do to make a PDF of any Mac file is to print it. When the Print dialog comes up, you just have to choose the PDF button instead of Print.Monday, June 27 2005 @ 03:35 PM PDT
Incompatibilities Mac vs. Windows - jawporta
Dude, you can do the same thing with the mac version you're just not looking in the right place. The "Save as PDF" is in every app on the Mac and Adobe still puts a little shortcut button just like the PC.Monday, June 27 2005 @ 07:51 PM PDT
Incompatibilities Mac vs. Windows - blos
If you would all READ the original post instead of responding to what you THOUGHT it said, you'd notice that the poster was describing a feature that allowed PDFs to be made from Office documents FROM WITHIN ACROBAT. Of course you can make PDFs via the print mechanism, or use the Office add-ins, or take a photo of the screen and use the picture to make an Acrobat PDF, etc., if you're happy with that. However it doesn't change the fact that this actual feature is missing from the ADOBE ACROBAT application, to which these comments are supposed to apply.Monday, June 27 2005 @ 08:57 PM PDT
Incompatibilities Mac vs. Windows - bruce@desertmoon.net
WOW, here we go again... everyone did READ what was WRITTEN.... it just seems inconceivable that someone with Acrobat 7 Pro wouldn't see the "CREATE PDF" (along with icon) in the menu wit several choices... front and center. That is what I meant when I said look DEEPER... but if he couldn't see the OBVIOUS then we were giving ALTERNATIVES. Nah, this was about frustration concerning someone not being able to drive their beloved Kia and letting evryone with BMWs in a BMW forum know what dorks they are, someone needs a vacation...Tuesday, June 28 2005 @ 06:13 AM PDT
Incompatibilities Mac vs. Windows - wkg
I do see this icon. My comment still stands. Selecting that icon, then 'Create PDF from File', and then selecting a Word / Excel / PPT file will result in the message 'file not supported.'I suppose you found it simpler to take potshots first without having TRIED YOURSELF to see whether my complaint was valid.
Friday, July 15 2005 @ 12:51 PM PDT
Incompatibilities Mac vs. Windows - bruce@desertmoon.net
Wow, we produce PDFs all the time on Macs... and have for years... with Quark and Indesign it's the best way to get your work to the printers... look a little deeper before you expose yourself! It reminds me of the person who climbs into a BMW and complains about the inferiority of the M8 because the mirror control isn't like his/her Kia model.Reply to This
Monday, June 27 2005 @ 12:37 PM PDT