It springs from the merging of the previously separate technologies PDF and Flash, and allows Acrobat to leave its static ePaper roots behind. The source of this new lease of life is clear. It is most obvious, however, in the new, top-of-the-range Adobe Acrobat 9 Extended package.

This new vitality is evident in the introduction of important new features across all areas of PDF handling and across the entire range of Acrobat authoring tools.

In fact version 9 is the most exciting Acrobat release since the launch of the all-important free Reader application. The good news is that that's not the case at all. With the chronically unimpressive version 8 release it even seemed that Acrobat might be reaching the end of its useful life. Recently however Acrobat has been showing its age and come to feel slow, lumbering and old-fashioned: a dinosaur in today's fast-pace internet age. The launch of the World Wide Web in the same year forced Adobe to radically revise its plans, but the Acrobat platform survived and eventually prospered by making itself indispensable in a whole host of workflows situations, from documentation distribution to commercial printing. Adobe Acrobat made its public debut back in 1991 and the PDF (Portable Document Format) it introduced was intended to become the universal format for design-rich, cross-platform electronic communication.

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