Acrobat 10 Pro vs Acrobat 9 Pro Extended

[Merry_navigator01AB]

Fellow Forum Members,

Has Adobe dropped the Typewriter tool that Acrobat 9 had?  Also Acrobat 9 Pro Extended had an app called Presenter. Has this also been dropped?  Can anyone out there post a list of what features have been dropped from Acrobat 10 Pro that Acrobat 9 Pro Extended use to have.

The biggest difference I see is in the file size between the two apps.  Acrobat 10 is close to 460 MB while Acrobat 9 as I remember was close to 1 GB. Does this difference in filesize mean that Acrobat 10 is missing a lot of the features version 9 had?  Evenmore, the GUI for Acrobat 10 looks very bare compared to version 9.  Has Acrobat 10 gone through some reverse evolution ?

Any info will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[try67]

The Typewriter tool in Acrobat X is known as "Add or Edit Text Box" (under

Tools - Content). It still has the typewriter icon, though.

[Dave Merchant]

Can anyone out there post a list of what features have been dropped from Acrobat 10 Pro that Acrobat 9 Pro Extended use to have.

The headline differences are as follows...

Items omitted from Acrobat X which where in one or more editions of Acrobat 9:

1) Ability to import and transcode video/audio files other than MP3, Flash Video and H.264 (now handled by Adobe Media Encoder in Acrobat X Suite).

2) Ability to import and transcode 3D model files other than U3D and PRC (now handled by the Tetra4D Converter application, sold separately).

3) Ability to embed legacy rich media annotations (removed for security reasons - legacy media will play but cannot be created).

4) Ability to import and register geospatial images and maps (now handled by export tools within native GIS software).

5) Organizer and the History tree (users should use external fie management and browsing tools such as Adobe Bridge, etc).

6) Support for Highlight File Format (functionality is no longer available).

7) ADBC (users should convert to using XFA or SOAP).

8) Headless import of InDesign files (now handled by the Export utility in InDesign itself).

There are lots of tweaks under the surface to make the installer footprint smaller. Losing some of the above features make a big difference (geospatial and 3D support took a lot of space), and despite being smaller than Acrobat 9, Acrobat X includes many new features too - such as support for Office 2010, export to spreadsheet, intelligent scan and OCR, etc. It's certainly true that it's not possible to replicate the entire functionality of Pro Extended, but as many users only needed a fraction of the tools, splitting off the specialist stuff makes commercial sense too - Acrobat X Pro is significantly cheaper than Pro Extended, even if you factor in the cost of a couple of commercial plugins. For example many users who were using Pro Extended for video work also had a copy of Creative Suite, Vegas, etc., so they already had the ability to generate the correct video files - duplicating chunks of the conversion code in Pro Extended didn't make sense, and with full H.264 support in Acrobat X we can import files from most prosumer sources (camcorders, cellphones, etc) without any conversion at all.

[AbhigyanModi]

Presenter was part of the Acrobat 10 Pro Extended (and not Pro). There is a new product offering Acrobat X Suite which will include Presenter, Captivate, Media Encoder and Photoshop!