- The Race to Rich-Media Domination
- Adobe Steps into the Interactive Arena
- Adobe's Mission: One Application for Print and Interactivity
- Adobe Redefines the Office Workflow
- Page-Based vs. Timeline Formats
- The Cost of Playback
- Adobe Introduces Reader 5.1
- Multimedia Moves to the Web Page
- Acrobat's Best Friend: Adobe InDesign
- InDesign Gets Interactive
- A Polarized New-Media Industry
- Rich-Media PDF and Disruptive Technologies
- Building a Team That Includes Everyone
- Reader 8 (PDF 1.7)
- Commenting and Forms
- Attached Files
- Viewing Interactive 3D Rich Media
- Adobe and Macromedia
Commenting and Forms
Adobe Reader 8 features commenting tools and the ability to save information that you fill out in a PDF form. If you own Acrobat 8 Professional, you know you can add Reader commenting and form-saving privileges to a PDF document. This feature has long provided Acrobat Professional users the capability to insert feedback in the document. But now the commenting tool, including its other useful features—such as notes, highlighting, striking out, underlining of words, plus the capability of saving the information that was filled out in a form—are all available in the free version of Reader 8 as well (FIGURE 3-3). Reader 8 has the capability to fill in a form, save it to your computer, and send it to someone as an attachment to an email.
Figure 3-3 Adobe Reader's basic tools (above) can be modified to allow users to add comments to PDF documents with the Comment & Markup tools (below). Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional is required to enable commenting with the free Adobe Reader.