Adobe Acrobat

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 14:45:38 -0500 From: baim@harpo.aaec.com Subject: Adobe Acrobat Report attached is a report/blurb from Adobe regarding Acrobat and its place in the Grand Scheme. FYI. Paul Baim -- cut here -- From: santoro@mv.us.adobe.com Subject: Re: Acrobat To: Multiple recipients of list GUTNBERG <GUTNBERG%UIUCVMD.bitnet@vm42.cso.uiuc.edu> Overview In the last decade, personal computer users have come to depend on their machines for a variety of tasks, nearly all of which culminate in the creation of documents. These can range from one-page spreadsheets or simple letters to more complex creations, such as newsletters or reports, that com- bine text, charts, graphs, illustrations and photographic images. The computer has traditionally been a tool for building or authoring these documents, then printing them onto paper for distribution to their intended audiences. Despite many technological advances, computers have not been able to effectively communicate the digital documents they create. Much of the difficulty for computer users in sharing computer-originated documents stems from the mix of computing platforms, configurations and applications found in most of today's oYces. Incompatible hardware platforms, operating systems and application software have prevented shaing all but the most rudimentary documents. When it can be shared across these barriers, text must be exchanged only in character- based ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Exchange) format, which changes the nature of all documents, robbing them of any distinctive typefaces or page design and precluding the use of any color or graphic elements. Adobe Systems Incorporated, developer of software technology for creating, displaying and printing digital documents, is overcoming these barriers with a new approach to document communication. The Adobe Acrobat product family allows users to send documents created on their computer to other computers electronically, regardless of hardware platform, operating system, application or font software used to create the original. The document can be read, annotated, printed and stored by the receiving computer. Adobe Acrobat products preserve the document's essential look and feel, and provide tools to aid the receiver in navigating through its pages on-screen. Adobe Acrobat products will eliminate the need to distribute many documents in paper form and make possible, for the first time, effective universal electronic document communication, storage and retrieval. Computer users can distribute fully formatted documents containing distinctive typefaces, color, graphics and photographs in electronic form, and protect current investments in hardware and software. Documents can be communicated in one of two ways: as part of simple document distribution, in which recipients navigate, view and print documents; or document exchange, in which recipients navigate, view, print and annotate documents from others, and originate d…