- Acrobat.com
Infobox Software
name = Adobe Acrobat.com
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developer =Adobe Systems
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operating_system = Web-based Application
genre = Web-based Productivity Tools
license = Proprietary
website = [http://www.acrobat.com/ acrobat.com]Adobe Acrobat.com is a suite of free Web Applications from
Adobe Systems that allows users to create, store and share documents andPDF files on-line.Currently, Adobe Acrobat.com is still in beta development stage and is only available in English. [http://www.adobe.com/acom/faq/ Adobe Acrobat.com FAQs] ] A desktop-client version of Acrobat.com based on
Adobe AIR is also available from Adobe AIR Marketplace. [http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1547518 Adobe Acrobat.com desktop client on Adobe AIR Market Place] ] This client, alongside with Adobe AIR, are also bundled withAdobe Reader 9 [ [http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/reader.html Adobe Reader product details page] ] .Services
Adobe Acrobat.com includes the following services. Users need to sign up for an account in order to use these services. However, users who already have an account on Adobe.com may use that account to sign in.
Buzzword
Adobe Buzzword (beta) is an online word processor that allows users to create and collaborate text documents on-line. Buzzword currently imports and exports plain text (TXT), rich text format (RTF), Microsoft Word (DOC and DOCX), and Word 2003 XML files. Buzzword also exports to Adobe PDF, Open Office (.odt) and HTML. Multiple users can read, review, comment on or co-author a single document. [http://www.adobe.com/acom/buzzword/ Buzzword Product Details page] ]
Adobe Buzzword interface currently supports English, French and German. Buzzword also includes spell checking for 18 different languages, namely Danish, Dutch, English (CN), English (UK), English (US), Finnish, French (France), French (Canada), German, German (Reformed), German (Swiss), German (Swiss Reformed), Italian, Norwegian (Bokmal), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish and Swedish.
ConnectNow
Adobe ConnectNow (BETA) is a live meetings service that enables users to have online conferences and collaboration. ConnectNow provides text and audio chat, video conferencing, whiteboard, screen-sharing and collaborative remote control of any of the participant's computers with their permission. [http://www.adobe.com/acom/connectnow/ ConnectNow Product Details page] ] ConnectNow only supports a conference of up to three users.
Create PDF
Create
PDF is a web service that allows users to convert up to 5 five files to PDF. Users can convert the following file types:
* Text: TXT, PS and RTF
* Microsoft Office: DOC, XLS, PPT and PRJ
* Open Office: ODT, ODP, ODS, ODG and ODF
* Star Office: SWX, SXI, SXC, SXD and STW
* Word Perfect: WPD
*File sizes are limited to 200MB.
hare / My Files
Share is an online file-sharing service that allows its users to upload a file online so that multiple other users can download them. Each user has a 5GB online storage. Users may choose to make a document accessible by anyone with the URL (web address), or restrict access to their files to only specific users.
Acrobat.com also allows users to preview file contents for several common file types (.DOC, .XLS, .PPT, .PDF, .WPD, .ODT, .ODP, .ODS, .ODG, .ODF, .SXW, .SXI, .SXC, .SXD, .STW), along with common graphics files.
Additionally, Share allows users to embed a preview of their documents into their web pages. [http://www.adobe.com/acom/share/ Share Product Details page] ]
There are several file types that cannot be uploaded and shared on Acrobat.com:
* Audio: MP3, AAC and OGG
* Video: MOV, WMV, FLV, XVID, DIVX and RETG
* Font: TTF, DFONT and OTF
* Archive: TGZ, RAR 7Z, SIT, JAR, WAR and CAB
* System and executable: EXE, DLL, JS, VB, BAT, CMD, COM, CPL, SH, CSH, TCSH, KSH, BASH, ZSH, INF, HTA, HLP, INS, ISP, VB, JSE, LNK, MS, PIF, SCR, SHS and WS
* Web: CHM and CRT
* Database: MDB
*References
External links
* [http://www.acrobat.com/ Adobe Acrobat.com]
* [http://www.adobe.com/acom/ Adobe Acrobat.com Product home page on Adobe Systems web site]
* [http://www.adobe.com/acom/faq/ Adobe Acrobat.com FAQs]
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