Tech Report: Adobe Acrobat Reader XI

[Rodney]

If you visit the Adobe site or attempt to update to the recently released Adobe Reader XI you'll currently get an update to Adobe Reader X instead and if attempting to update via the Reader itself a message that says you are currently up to date. This despite the fact that the Adobe site showing the XI version available for download.

 

Since the XI release has been out since late Sep I can only assume the current buglist is large enough to keep Adobe from promoting/releasing it fully.

 

For those interested the XI release is available at the following location:

 

http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatet.../11/11.0.0.html

 

DISCLAIMER: YOU SHOULD READ THROUGH THE BUG LIST FIRST BEFORE INSTALLING.

I installed and haven't had any problems thus far.

 

Some of the updates from the previous version are fairly trivial but of primary interest is the new annotation options.

Of particlar interest is that as the new release attachments can be added right there in the Acrobat Reader.

 

So what does this mean to you?

 

Scenario:

You are reading a tutorial or watching a presentation when you see that some resources are available to use in Animation:Master.

You note the attachment and click on it and the resource opens in A:M.

You explore the resource and then go back to the PDF files to learn more.

 

This is nothing new to folks that have purchased the full version of Adobe Acrobat but what is new here is that everyone now has the ability to add these resources as attachments inside a PDF document. That is significant.

 

There will be more to come regarding this... with the goal of getting more resources into the hands of A:M Users... but I want to get this info flowing because it is going to be very good for us here in the A:M Forum and for those that want to add these resources now... you can now do that.

 

More testing required to see what other capabilities are included in Acrobat XI.

For those with time to kill here are some links to explore:

 

http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/known-is...-xi-reader.html

 

Acrobat User information and (apparently) the chance to win stuff over the next 30days: https://www.facebook.com/adobeacrobat?sk=app_316874691719824