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Adobe Acrobat.com

Developed by	Adobe Systems
Operating system	Web-based Application
Type	Web-based Productivity Tools
License	Proprietary
Website	acrobat.com

Adobe Acrobat.com is a suite of free web applications from Adobe Systems that allows users to create, store and share documents and PDF files on-line. 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. Currently, Adobe Acrobat.com is still in beta development stage and is only available in English.^[1] A desktop-client version of Acrobat.com based on Adobe AIR is also available from Adobe AIR Marketplace.^[1]^[2] This client, alongside with Adobe AIR, is also bundled with Adobe Reader 9^[3]. Acrobat.com is installed on user's computer while installing other Adobe applications without asking the user.

1 Services
2 See also
3 References

[edit] Services

The website offers the following services:

[edit] Buzzword

Adobe Buzzword is an online word processor that allows users to create and collaborate on text documents on-line. Buzzword currently imports and exports plain text (TXT), Rich Text Format (RTF), OpenDocument Text (.odt), Office Open XML (DOCX), Microsoft Word (DOC), and Word 2003 XML files. Buzzword also exports to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and HTML. Multiple users can read, review, comment on or co-author a single document.^[4] 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.^[1]

[edit] ConnectNow

Adobe ConnectNow 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.^[5] ConnectNow only supports a conference of up to three users.^[1]

[edit] Create PDF

Adobe Create PDF is a web service that allows users to convert up to 5 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
Image: BMP, GIF, JPEG, TIFF and PNG

File sizes are limited to 200MB.^[1]

[edit] Share

Adobe 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.^[6] There are several file types that cannot be uploaded and shared on Acrobat.com:^[1]

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
Image: PCD and SCT