Adobe in Acrobat 7 'vapor-schlep' mode


Adobe is wafting vapors of the soon-to-be-released Acrobat 7, the next whole-number release of the company's family of .pdf (portable document format) creation, editing and management applications. Said to be shipping before the end of the year in Pro, Standard and Elements versions, users can evaluate which product or products are right for them using the company's handy-dandy comparison matrix.

Of course, a "new" version of Acrobat Reader--which earned a solitary tick on their comparison table--is also in the offing.

Adobe is offering a tour, click here (.pdf, of course), of the new features available in v7.0.

Editor's note: The company is publicly soft-selling Acrobat, which leads this punter to believe the real audience is enterprises. There are new features (document convergence, workflow), but I think they're undersellling here in order to push process. John Q Public is not the target here, but the PLC's are...

Of course, "process" is something that all of us in content creation would very much like to own.

Lastly, with just six weeks to go before "the end of the year," why don't they just friggin' tell us what day it's coming on?

What's your take?