[Macpartners] Adobe Reader Release Effort Underway

[Deb Bowser]

Date: Wednesday, 9 February 2005
To: MIT Community: itpartners at mit.edu, macpartners at mit.edu, 
winpartners at mit.edu, sw-release-announce at mit.edu, ed-tech at mit.edu
Cc: itag at mit.edu, is&t at mit.edu
From: Software Release Team
Subject: Adobe Reader Release Effort Underway

Good Afternoon,

IS&T is pleased to announce that the Adobe Reader release effort has begun. 
Adobe Reader 7 is the latest version provided by Adobe and is free, 
universal software that lets you open, view, search, and print Adobe 
Portable Document Format (PDF) files with built-in security features.

This release effort will focus on compatibility testing, basic 
functionality testing, and identifying and documenting issues specifically 
relevant to the MIT computing environment. These changes reflect a general 
change in the release effort process for shrink-wrapped software. Their 
effect is to maintain the high quality of support while decreasing the time 
necessary to release the product to the MIT community.

Adobe Reader 7.0 system requirements
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Windows

Intel Pentium processor
Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or later,  Windows XP Professional, or Windows 
XP Tablet PC Edition
128MB of RAM
Up to 90MB of available hard-disk space

Macintosh

PowerPC G3 processor
Mac OS X  10.3
Up to 35MB of RAM
Up to 125MB of available hard-disk space

New Features and Improvements to Adobe Reader:
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This new version of Adobe Reader provides better overall performance for 
faster launch times and real-time zooming and panning. You benefit from 
improved search features and a unified selection tool. Adobe Reader 7.0 
lets you fill out and submit PDF forms with spell-checking (full version 
only) and save a wide range of files attached to PDF documents, including 
word processing documents, spreadsheets, and multimedia files. You can also 
view and organize digital editions (formerly eBooks) and view them in 
landscape or portrait mode.

In addition to these features, authors creating PDF files using Adobe 
Acrobat 7.0 Professional can activate special features in Adobe Reader 7.0 
that enable you to review, mark up, and add comments to PDF files.  To read 
more on Adobe Reader's new features, please visit their 
site:  http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrwhatsnew.html.

For additional information regarding Adobe Reader, please visit their site: 
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html

The Adobe Reader Release Team will send updates throughout the process. For 
more information on Adobe Reader and the release effort, see the Adobe 
Reader release notebook at http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/adobe/. If you 
have questions or suggestions, please contact the team via email at 
acrobat-release at mit.edu.

Regards,
Deb Bowser
IS&T Adobe Reader Product Release Coordinator
Client Support Services