Acrobat.com
Adobe, a software company known for graphic-editing program Adobe Photoshop and PDF softwares Adobe Acrobat & Adobe Reader, released Acrobat.com to the public last June 1. Acrobat.com is a flash-based document collaboration website, which offers features including online word processing, PDF creation, and even screen-sharing! It is currently at public open beta stage, and requires Adobe Flash Player 9. Certain features may require other Adobe plug-ins and/or programs (e.g. PDF creator requires Adobe Acrobat 9).
Adobe Buzzword is an online word processing program that offers basic features.
Buzzword has a small selection of fonts, but has decent functionality. It has a variety of formatting options, good enough for basic word processing needs. What’s amazing about this program is that it offers quite a lot of file type export options. After working on documents via Buzzword, users can save these documents to their desktop in several file formats including .doc, .xml, .pdf, .txt, .rtf, and even zipped (.zip) HTML files!
Adobe ConnectNow allows desktop viewing, webcam and note sharing, and chatting.
ConnectNow requires an add-in from Adobe, which is a one-time download. It offers desktop-sharing, in which users can show what they’re currently viewing. It also provides a url for the session/meeting, which can be shared to gather more participants. Users may experience slow reaction due to heavy site traffic, or may even have trouble accessing this feature.
Because Acrobat.com has only been released to the public a couple of days ago, lots of users are excited to view its features. If you’ve signed up and visited the site only to find out that you can’t access the program you want because of the site’s limited resources, then check http://health.acrobat.com/ to see if a certain service is up, overloaded by users, or undergoing maintenance.
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