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Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) 3.0 software provides the fastest way to publish any document online. It empowers everyone to create and share documents across platforms while maintaining the documents' original look and feel.

Acrobat 3.0 works with your existing Web browser and servers. So all you need to instantly access Portable Document Format (PDF) files on the Web is the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. Since Acrobat is independent of platforms, applications, and distribution media, it is the ideal basis for your document distribution, archiving, and retrieval strategy.

Acrobat 3.0 includes a complete tool set for converting electronic files created in your favorite applications into PDF and publishing them on your Web site, intranet, CD-ROM, or distributing them by e-mail.

• Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF documents
• Acrobat Exchange(R) for adding navigational links, annotations, and security options
• Acrobat PDF Writer for creating PDF files from your favorite business applications
• Acrobat Distiller(R) for creating PDF files from your favorite PostScript(R) applications (including desktop publishing software)
• Acrobat Catalog for creating full text indexes searchable with Acrobat Search
• Acrobat Capture(R) plug-in with OCR (Object Character Recognition) for creating text-searchable PDF documents from scanned paper originals

Key Features:
Everything You Need in One Box

Adobe Acrobat software offers you all the features you need to convert documents into PDF and publish them online, including the tools formerly available in Acrobat Exchange(R) 2.1, Acrobat Pro 2.1, and Acrobat Search for CD-ROMs 2.1: Acrobat PDF Writer, Acrobat Distiller(R), Acrobat Catalog, and Acrobat Search. It also gives you brand-new tools, such as the Acrobat Capture(R) Plug-in.
 
Adobe Acrobat 3.0 Product Family

	Reader	Reader with Search	Microsoft Office Macros	Exchange	PDF Writer	Distiller	Catalog	Scan	Capture Plug-in	Import	Touch up
Macintosh	*	*		*	*	*	*				*
Power Macintosh	*	*		*	*	*	*	#	#	#	*
Windows 3.1	*	*		*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Windows 95	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Windows NT(R) 3.51	*	*		*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Windows NT 4.0	*	*	#	*	#	*	*	*	#	*	*
SunOS(TM)	*	*		*		*
Sun(TM) Solaris(R)	*	*		*		*
HP-UX	*	*		*		*
AIX(R)	*	*		*		*
Silicon Graphics(R) IRIX(TM)	*	*
Digital UNIX(R)	#	#
Linux	#
OS/2(R)	#

* Components included in Acrobat 3.0 and 3.01.                                                   # Components included in Acrobat 3.01.
 

Creating PDF Files
 
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• Microsoft(R) Word and Excel Macros for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0

New macros for Word and Excel add a "Create Adobe PDF" option to the File menus of both applications. Choosing the Create Adobe PDF option automatically switches to the PDF Writer driver, creates the PDF file, and then switches back to the previously selected printer driver.
 
• Acrobat Distiller

The Distiller lets you convert visually rich Adobe PostScript(R) language files created in image editing, illustration, and page layout applications to PDF.

• Converting Paper Documents to PDF

With Acrobat 3.0 for Windows, scanning and OCR, complete with page recognition, is fast and easy. Users can import all the leading image formats, or scan and convert almost any printed business document into PDF. Letters, memos, and faxes lying dormant in file cabinets come back to life electronically. PDF files are fully searchable and retain all their original layout, including fonts, images, tables, and even multicolumn text. And for batch-converting entire volumes or archives of paper documents to PDF for posting online, use Acrobat Capture software.
 
• PDF Writer

Use the PDF Writer to easily "print" everyday business documents from any application to PDF.

Enhancing PDF Files
 
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• Interactive Forms

Companies can use Acrobat to create visually rich, interactive forms that include features such as pop-up lists and radio buttons. For the first time, your Web forms can preserve your corporate identity.

• Dynamic Controls

Acrobat makes it easy to add dynamic controls (interactive buttons) that trigger sound and QuickTime or AVI movies in any PDF file. Users can publish PDF files from their desktop to any media that suits their needs, including CD-ROM, e-mail (as an attachment), an intranet, or external Web sites.

• Integrated Viewing

Acrobat 3.0 offers integrated viewing of PDF files directly within the leading Web browsers, including Netscape(R) Navigator(R) 3.0, Netscape Communicator(TM) 4.0, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 and later.
 
• Page-on-Demand Access

Page-at-a-time downloading of PDF files across the Internet ensures fast display of PDF documents.
 
• Progressive Rendering

Progressive rendering of PDF pages means that text is rendered first (using a substitute font if necessary), followed by hypertext links and images. Any embedded fonts are drawn on-screen last, ensuring quick viewing of the information.

Optimization for the Internet

• Save As

The "Save As" option of Acrobat 3.0 now includes a checkbox for optimizing PDF files for online delivery. This means that duplicate background objects (text, line art, and images) are combined, significantly reducing file sizes. Objects in a PDF file are reordered for page-on-demand access over the Internet.

• Batch Optimization

You can easily optimize an entire folder - and optionally, all included subfolders - of PDF files on a hard disk, Web server, or a CD-ROM staging area.
 
• Cross-Document Links and the Internet

PDF files with relative cross-document links now work unchanged. This means that you can create a single collection of hypertext-linked PDF files and publish them on local drives, network drives, CD-ROM, or a Web server - and the links automatically work in all locations.

System Requirements:
Adobe Acrobat for Windows
 
Minimum

• i386(TM), i486(TM), Pentium(R), or Pentium Pro processor-based personal computer
• Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Windows NT 3.51 or later
• 8 MB of RAM (16 MB for Windows NT) for Acrobat Reader, Acrobat Exchange, or Acrobat Catalog
• 16 MB of RAM (24 MB for Windows NT) for Acrobat Distiller or Acrobat Capture Plug-in
• CD-ROM drive (1.44 MB floppy disks available on request)

• Pentium processor-based personal computer
• Windows 95 or Windows NT
• 16 MB of RAM (24 MB for Windows NT)
• CD-ROM drive
• 40 MB of available hard-disk space

• Macintosh with a 68020 or greater processor, or Power Macintosh
• 3.5 MB of RAM (5 MB for Power Macintosh) available to Acrobat Reader
• 4 MB of RAM (6 MB for Power Macintosh) available to Acrobat Exchange
• 6 MB of RAM (8 MB for Power Macintosh) available to Distiller
• 16 MB of RAM available to Acrobat Capture Plug-in (Acrobat Capture Plug-in available only for Power Macintosh)
• Apple System Software version 7.0 or later
• CD-ROM drive (1.44 MB floppy disks available on request)

• Power Macintosh (required for Acrobat Capture Plug-in)
• 16 MB of RAM available to Acrobat
• 24 MB of RAM available to Acrobat Capture Plug-in
• Apple System Software version 7.1.2 or later
• CD-ROM drive
• 40 MB of available hard-disk space

• 12 MB of disk space for Acrobat Reader
• 22 MB of disk space for Acrobat Exchange
• 18 MB of disk space for Distiller
• System with 32 MB of RAM

• SunOS 4.1.3 or 4.1.4 or
• Solaris 2.3, 2.4, or 2.5
• OpenWindows(TM) (3.0 or later) or the Motif(TM) window manager (version 1.2.3 or later) for Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Exchange

• HP-UX 9.0.3 or later
• HPVUE desktop environment

• AIX 4.1 or later operating system
• Common Desktop Environment (CDE) or the Motif window manager