Added support for PKI and digital signatures via plug-ins.
PDF version 1.3 (and prior) supported.Last release with support for Windows 3.1. First release with support for Windows 95 and later.Updates to 3.01 and 3.02 3.02 introduced extended forms capabilities and JavaScript.
Included Acrobat Catalog, and a Distiller printer driver.
Acrobat Professional 2.0, which included the contents of Acrobat Exchange, plus Distiller.
Created a PDF from PostScript (no printer driver at this stage).Īcrobat 2.0 for Windows and Macintosh was first released September 1994. Acrobat Exchange 1.0 (included PDFWriter printer driver and Acrobat Exchange application).After a while the IRS purchased a right to distribute Reader 1.0, effectively making it seem free to those who obtained it that way: This was not available in single copies and was not initially free, with Acrobat Reader originally priced at $50 per user. None of the products in Acrobat family has adopted the two-letter CS3 icons, although rendered similarly.Īdobe has never created a product called either Adobe Writer or Acrobat Writer, although they used to include a printer driver called PDFWriter, which is unrelated.Īcrobat 1.0 was originally released 15 June 1993 for Macintosh, later for DOS and Windows 3.1. A growing collection of free web services launched via the service such as Adobe Buzzword, Connect Now, Create PDF, and Share.
Find out more about Adobe Reader and accessibility.Since the early 1990s, the Acrobat product had several competitors who each used their own document formats, such as:īy the late 1990s PDF had become the de facto standard, and the others had become largely historical footnotes. Use Adobe PDF documents to meet the accessibility requirements mandated by Section 508 of the amended Rehabilitation Act. Participate in e-mail-based document reviewsĮasily review and add comments to documents by extending the commenting capability of Adobe Reader using Acrobat 7.0 Professional or Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions Search for words in page content, annotations, bookmarks, form fields, or document metadata within any PDF file on a local machine.įill in and submit forms electronically and save filled-in forms locally when this capability is enabled by the document author in Adobe LiveCycle software.Īpply digital signatures to certify and authenticate a document when enabled by Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional or Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions software. Additionally, cut/paste functionality between all languages has been improved.įind and retrieve any PDF document or a phrase in a document within a matter of seconds. With new Adobe Reader 7.0, you can view 3D content, Macromedia Flash (SWF) animations, and Windows Media clips in your Adobe PDF files.Īdobe Reader 7.0 now provides support for Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, and Vietnamese including text input, automatic font updates, an extended font pack, and spelling dictionaries.
View interactive information in Adobe PDF Adobe Reader 7.0 launches much faster than previous versions (up to 50% faster than version 6.0). Open and save PDF files faster than ever.