Since PDF is good for those who homestead and those who migrate, I thought
I'd pass this along.  The most notable item was that the Acrobat Reader will
be renamed to Adobe Reader.

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200304/040703Acrobat
Family.html

SAN JOSE, Calif. — April 7, 2003 (NASDAQ: ADBE) — Adobe Systems
Incorporated, the leader in network publishing, today introduced the Adobe®
Acrobat® 6.0 product line, a major upgrade and expansion of the company's
cornerstone software application and a critical component of its solutions
for integrating documents into business processes. The new Acrobat 6.0
family enables power users, workgroups, and business professionals across
the extended enterprise to efficiently create, share, review, and archive
files in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), the de facto standard for
reliable electronic document distribution.

Building on the ubiquity of free Adobe Reader® software, and the strengths
of Adobe PDF for document presentation and XML for data exchange, Adobe's
desktop and server solutions provide integrated and actionable delivery of
business-critical information to virtually any user inside or outside an
organization.

"Companies continue to strive for more efficient document-based business
processes. This requires closely connecting the desktop productivity tools
business users rely on today with back-office process automation systems,"
said Tim Hickernell, Senior Program Director, META Group. "Products and
solutions that address the entire document lifecycle, particularly those
based on and supportive of industry standards, will provide large businesses
an important, strategic advantage."

The new Acrobat 6.0 family—Acrobat 6.0 Professional, Acrobat 6.0 Standard
and Acrobat Elements—offers different levels of functionality to address
specific customer needs. The most comprehensive product, Acrobat 6.0
Professional, helps business, creative and engineering professionals who
work with complex, graphically rich layouts to improve the process of
document exchange, review and archive. Acrobat 6.0 Standard enables
workgroups to simplify document reviews using intuitive tools and a new,
task-based interface. Acrobat Elements is a volume-license-only product that
allows enterprises to place inexpensive Adobe PDF creation capability on
every desktop, enabling reliable document distribution.

The company also announced Adobe Reader 6.0 software (expected to be
available in by the end of May 2003), an upgrade and re-naming of the widely
distributed, free Acrobat Reader. Adobe Reader, which supports numerous
desktop and mobile device platforms, is the definitive application for
viewing, interacting with and printing Adobe PDF content ranging from
business documents and forms to Photoshop® Album slide shows, eBooks, and
embedded multimedia. Adobe Reader will be available free of charge as a
download from Adobe.com by the end of May 2003. The company has distributed
over half-a-billion copies of the product since its 1993 introduction.

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