It’s no doubt that Adobe Acrobat X Professional now is the best tool for PDF files we tested. The product can not only operate all the kinds of tasks on our checklist, but also could act better beyond our imagination. In addition, as mighty as it is, the product considerably more awkward to use than any of the other utilities examined. Some of this awkwardness is a function of how Acrobat is designed. Adobe anticipates that Acrobat X will be integrated into business workflow and document handling.
This in turn leads to a more standard design. Acrobat Professional actually has three professional modules: Acrobat itself, LifeCycle Designer, and Distiller.
Acrobat: The central Acrobat core does the lion’s share of the work, creating and converting PDFs, scanning and editing documents, and the like.
LifeCycle Designer: It is used to create, manage, and edit forms. The LifeCycle Server lets you put a limit on how long a document remains accessible — sort of like the “Use Before” labels that you find on food.
Distiller: It is something that the average user will probably never have a reason to use. Before Adobe invented the PDF format, it developed the Postscript printer language. Even today, Postscript is used extensively in big businesses. Distiller converts Postscript documents to PDF, at which point you can use Acrobat’s other capabilities to perform operations on the document just as you would with any PDF file.
Anothe edition of Acrobat X ―Adobe Acrobat X Standard― dumps some of features like LifeCycle Designer. For most home office, personal use and SMBs, they tend to opting to go with Adobe might want this version because its functions are enough because it is cheapier and its function is mighty enough.
