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Legal Acrobatics A Review of Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0

By Marc Lauritsen
May 31, 2005

If you haven't already seen a couple reviews of Acrobat 7.0, you must not be reading much legal tech trade literature! I've caught at least half a dozen already. Adobe Systems has accompanied the release of their latest version with quite a media blitz, at least in the legal sector. And for good reason. The Acrobat product family encompasses a host of features highly useful for legal professionals.

Until recently, my own interactions with Acrobat were limited to the free Reader. Like many Internet users today, I've opened thousands of portable document format (PDF) files, including “fillable PDFs” for tax forms and other purposes. I've used non-Adobe products to produce simple PDFs from Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files.

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