The universal electronic publishing tool.
Adobe Acrobat Pro is the fastest, lowest cost way to publish
electronic documents via CD-ROMs, corporate networks, even the World
Wide Web. Take any document from any Macintosh or Windows application.
Then convert it into the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) as
easily as you'd print it. Your PDF file gives you everything you
expect from a document ?color, graphics, text, easy navigation,
printing? but it's faster and easier to access in electronic form. Now
send your PDF file to anyone, and they can view or print it on any
computer and printer with free Acrobat Reader. It's that easy.
About Adobe Acrobat Pro:
Now you can add life to your desktop-published files by preparing them
quickly and easily for electronic distribution. The Adobe Acrobat Pro
package includes Acrobat Exchange and Acrobat Distiller software,
which gives you the unique capability o convert any PostScript
language file into PDF. You can setup Acrobat Distiller to convert
PostScript language files on a local Macintosh, Power Macintosh or
Windows computer or to monitor directories on a network files server,
providing Distiller conversion services to any number of network
users.
When to use Acrobat Distiller:
You can convert most documents into PDF files using the PDF writer
driver included with Acrobat Exchange. With documents from many
desktop publishing, page layout, illustration, and image editing
programs, use Acrobat Distiller when:
* Your document contains Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) artwork or
images.
* Your document contains high-resolution images that you want to
reduce in resolution and size.
* Your application generates its own PostScript language files when
printing or produces the best output on a PostScript printer.
* You need to convert existing PostScript language files into PDF.
* You are using an application in a computing environment, such as
UNIX or DOS, that allows you to generate PostScript language
files.
* Your document is large or contains complex blends or gradient
fills.
* Your application includes Acrobat support for automatically
creating bookmarks, links and article threads.
About Acrobat Catalog:
Adobe Acrobat Catalog is indexing software that builds full-text
indexes for collections of documents in Portable Document Format
(PDF). With these indexes, Acrobat Exchange users can search large
collections of document in seconds.
First download contains the original floppy installer disks in
DiskCopy 4.2 format (6 disks for Exchange, 4 disks for Distiller and 2
disks for Catalog) in friendly StuffIt pre-5.x version.
The second file is the sampler CD included in the Acrobat 2 box. This
component is optional, included just for historic purposes. This one
is compressed in StuffIt 5.x for smaller size, unfortunately this CD
won't compress very much.
The CD Sampler contains sample PDF files so you can start exploring
the possibilities of Acrobat Pro, installer for Acrobat Reader for
several platforms (DOS, SGI, Windows, Mac and UNIX), demo plugins and
installers for online services (the now defunct eWorld, CompuServe),
and Adobe PostScript drivers (8.2.1 for Mac and 3.0 for Windows)
Note of consideration if you have installed QuickDraw GX:
Acrobat Exchange runs under QuickDraw GX and uses GX fonts when
QuickDraw is running. When you install Acrobat Exchange 2.1 on a
Macintosh with QuickDraw extension, the version of substitution fonts
that is installed depends on whether QuickDraw GX is enabled or not.
For this reason, keep these points in mind when running Acrobat
Exchange under QuickDraw GX:
* Whenever you enable, disable, or remove QuickDraw GX, you need to
reinstall Acrobat Exchange using the Easy Install option.
* If you install SSW 7.5 and QuickDraw GX after installing Acrobat
Exchange 2.1, you must reinstall Acrobat exchange 2.1.
* Adobe PDF Writer 2.1 is not compatible with QuickDraw GX. When the
QuickDraw GX extension is enabled, the PDF Writer icon does not
appear in the Chooser.
Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC
* Requirements:
* Macintosh 68020 - 68040 CPU:
* 2 MB of application RAM for Acrobat Exchange or Acrobat Reader.
* 6 MB of application RAM for Acrobat Distiller.
* Power PC CPU:
* 4.5 MB of application RAM for Acrobat Exchange or Acrobat Reader.
* 8 MB of application RAM for Acrobat Distiller.
* Acrobat Catalog: 68020 Macintosh or later, or Power Macintosh, 6MB of RAM, 16MB recommended, hard disk with at least 5MB of free space.
* Apple System Software version 7.0 or later.
* Apple SuperDrive HD floppy disk drive.
Note: Mini vMac use requires the 68020 Mac II variation build and
installing without Acrobat Catalog which requires more RAM than Mini
vMac II can supply.
