So here you are creating a business plan, proposal, business contunity plan, or user guide and you have decided to deliver it to your client as an Acrobat PDF file to get their feedback. The problem is, they don’t have (or can’t afford/don’t want to buy) Adobe Acrobat 8 or 9 Professional or Adobe Acrobat 8 or 9 Standard.

Can they add comments to the PDF? Make text changes like deletions and insertions? The answer to both these questions is an emphatic YES! How do they do this? The steps require you (the content originator) to perform one step in the PDF file and then your client to do a couple of steps:

• They have to download and install the free Adobe Reader 9 software. Versions before 8.1.2 of the Acrobat Reader do not allow comments and text changes.
• Enable commenting in the Acrobat file: In an open PDF, choose Comments > Enable For Commenting In Adobe Reader, and then save the PDF.
• Use Adobe Reader 8 to include sticky notes (comments), as well as text changes (deletions and insertions) in the PDF file and deliver it back to you.

That’s it! Now your clients can comment on the .PDF recieved by you.

Adobe’s newest release of Acrobat is, simply, awesome!

Bringing together of Flash and PDF creates a union stronger than the separate parts. That’s right – the Adobe Flash runtime (based on version 9) is baked right into Acrobat and Reader. That means that any Flash content you’ve added to a PDF document on your computer – either Flash Video (FLV) or a Flash animation or application (SWF) – will just work on anyone else’s computer – as long as they’re using Acrobat or Adobe Reader 9.