Adobe announces Acrobat XI with tablet-friendly touchability, cloud services

Adobe Acrobat XI with tablet-friendly touchability, cloud services

Adobe has just updated its Acrobat lineup, including Pro, Standard and Reader to version 11 — and thrown in two new programs, FormsCentral and EchoSign, to boot. The latter two are cloud-enabled services which permit “web contracting, forms creation, data collection and analysis” according to Adobe, which didn’t yet specify exactly how that works. The company has also added improved tablet capability, and portable versions of Adobe Reader will now let you sign and save forms, as well as annotate and add comments. You’ll also be able to modify paragraphs, images and objects by dragging them around; save PDFs as PowerPoint, Word or Excel files; and add extra security measures to documents. The upgrades will ship within 30 days and cost $449 and $299 for the Pro and Standard versions, respectively — so if you’ve no time for frivolity on that new slate, check the PR for more info.

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