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Adobe's new Acrobat.com
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Wow!
Holy CRAP! WOW!
If any of you remember about 8 years ago, there was some company that tried to do a Java-based word processor. Back then, even the people with real network connections couldn't run it, and it was slow and clunky and didn't like printers.
Well, go to http://www.acrobat.com and see what Adobe has done with Flash. They have a badass word processor, you can make PDFs for FREE (even from .doc files), a WebEx competitor, and you can share it all over the 'net. I'm damn impressed with this.
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Flash? Guess that means it'll be slow as molasses on anything except Windows.
Still, I guess that's a leg up on Java which is slow on everything including Windows.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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I'm going to spend the entire night PDFing everything I have before they decide to start charging again.
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interesting!
yet it won't let me log in or verify. 
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Before I waste my time signing up, what else (besides creating PDFs for free, LOLZ) can I do with it ?
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Zzzzzzz...
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MBP 2.4/160/2/256
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Yeah but this is for free. Apple charges 99 cents for each PDF. Didn't you know that? You better make sure your address is up to date; otherwise those bills will be piling up and ruin your credit.
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Originally Posted by Mithras 
Yeah but this is for free. Apple charges 99 cents for each PDF. Didn't you know that? You better make sure your address is up to date; otherwise those bills will be piling up and ruin your credit.
Kind of like that charge I keep getting every time I use the MP3 codec in iTunes?
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As a flash developer, I find this to be pretty fracking awesome.
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Kind of off topic, but since when do PDFs printed from Safari retain clickable links?
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We use Adobe Connect at work and it's better than Live Meeting IMO.
I'm not all that impressed with free PDF since there are other ways but Adobe Connect is pretty slick.
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The Word Proc is cool, but the feature I use most on Google Docs is the spreadsheet.
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From the ArsTechnica review:
Users are allowed to convert up to five PDFs each month for free.
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Can some one explain what the point of this is?
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Originally Posted by peeb
Can some one explain what the point of this is?
I think Adobe is struggling to remain relevant. But I wonder how they will deliver Acrobat on the Mac. Let me guess...you'll have to install an installer, which will go the the net and download a zipped file, which unzips into an installer that when run, downloads a larger zipped file that unzips itself, downloads an installer and runs. The resulting app will be in a folder inside a folder in the Applications folder. It won't use Apple's help system but will instead have a separate help app for each component. Lastly, Acrobat will ask for administrator privileges at each launch!
The features of Acrobat 9 are interesting, but I'm sure the implementation will be bloated and messy.
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Originally Posted by peeb
Can some one explain what the point of this is?
Adobe has been trying to move into online apps for a while now. They first started talking about it a few years ago: the idea was that they'd slowly move the CS suite from your desktop to online. It hasn't worked so far for a number of reasons, one of the most important being that Adobe's customers keeping tell it to get lost when they raise the idea. Imagine editing a 700 MB .psd file with an online app.
No thanks.
The idea of online apps seems to be one of those computing holy grails which is promised but which never works right. If you do some research you can find people claiming all of our apps would be online and shared for the better part of a decade. Maybe one day it will happen, but not yet.
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The era of anthropomorphizing hardware is over.
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Certain apps CAN work online, some can't. Video and image processing I can't see working for a LONG time to come. I'm very interested in Buzzword, though.
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As someone who spends the better part of his time writing and editing text, I can tell you that Buzzword will not catch on. Word will remain the kingpin in general purpose text editing for the foreseeable future.
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Word proc ? Meh.
Too slugish. It's just an eye-candified text editor.
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Originally Posted by Kenneth
Yes, that's what everyone as referring to, w/o using the name.
Stupid name, btw.
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