what a drag that they scatter Acrobat from CS....ie, if you get Acro 9 now and then get CS4 when it comes out, you get/buy Acrobat again

remember the "good ol' days" when Mac and PC users had to buy Acrobat just to produce PDF output.

Man, I bet Adobe misses those days.

'distiller' bLeh!

This is like when you pay way too much money for some fancy pen and then feel compelled to use it constantly; as if being seen with it in public is going to somehow justify the fact that you just wasted a lot of money on a marginally useful trinket nobody cares about but you.

Just because you bought Macromedia doesn't mean everyone in the world wants Flash content everywhere, Adobe. Give it a rest already. I feel sorry for the kids at Kinko's who are now going to be forced to explain to stupid people why they can't print their Flash impregnated abominations.

…that Adobe tidies up Acrobat and gives it more usability instead of just more scattered, ill thought out "features".

Where exactly are they going with this?

so transition to pay-per-use may now be the only way to generate cash flow, as with most software the draw of instant fortunes from lump sum electronic distribution is giving way to ongoing subscription 'milking'...

On the flash front slow loading & incompatibilities frustrate me to leave more flash driven sites than I ever look at - I simply don't understand the draw...

I remember learning Flash 3.0 and right there in the manual it explained how to design a site so it doesn't dump the whole load at once and you have to sit there waiting for it. Also, that an intro movie should be simple and quick.

Fast forward almost ten years later and Flash designers still haven't learned to do that.

...upon trying to load the acrobat site linked above (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/) I just gave up waiting for the load at about 75% & left... Doh!

That more shows you that Flash isn't such a boatload of c*** that web developers aren't worth the money they're being paid.

Then again, with bandwidth increasing, the desire to keep down the size of content is highly diminished. Just like how desktop apps aren't concerned so much with memory footprint or program size.

Adobe's own PDF brochures on Acrobat 9 show that Macs
are only supported on Standard and Pro editions and is
specifically absent from the list of 4 other Unix environments
for the Pro Extended version (and another 10 versions of
Windows). It has something to do with Adobe's 3D Capture
Utility app that only works on Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX
and HP-UX.