Right-clicking on the icons brings up a variety of panels, such as Comments, Fields, Help, and Model Tree. Version 8 greets you with a handsome interface makeover sporting colorful icons on the desktop (Figure 1), a nice change from version 7’s utilitarian tabs. However, that doesn’t mean it’s all bad news. This chore might not be practical, and it certainly won’t be welcomed by anyone’s IT department. The corporate audience might like the new collaboration features (as long as they’re willing to pay for them), but unless they’re on Macs, those same businesses also need to upgrade participating machines to Windows XP SP2 before they can collaborate. Some of the changes may confuse and frustrate long-time print-production professionals while adding features that most businesses may not need. Although the entire package is fairly pricey ($499 upgrade $159) and was traditionally aimed at high-level users and print production folks, this version’s “improvements’ are aimed at, um, well, I couldn’t really identify a target audience.
I’ll state this upfront: I find many of the changes in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional inexplicable.
