Adobe Software offers a number of ACROBAT software products, all of which operate on the Portable Document Format (PDF) technology it has developed. For detailed information about the various ACROBAT products available for your use, please follow the links below.
NOTE: The Workers’ Compensation Commission does NOT officially endorse any particular software product. The information provided here is made available only as a public service, in an effort to potentially enhance your use of our site; while we have tested the software products discussed below within our agency’s technical infrastructure and they do seem to function as advertised, it is your own responsibility to personally research and evaluate any and all software tools to determine whether they will or will not serve your needs and fit into your own operational and technical environments.
Complete information about Adobe’s Portable Document Format, or PDF, technology.
PDF is the file format used by the Commission for its online presentation of agency forms, newsletters, and publications, and requires the use of either the Acrobat READER 5 program, the Acrobat APPROVAL 5 program, or the “full ACROBAT 5 program.
Adobe PDF at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html
Complete information about Adobe’s family of ACROBAT software products.
The links below provide a good overview of the products, a comparison of their main features, and detailed information about various pricing and licensing options.
Acrobat Family of Products at http://www.adobe.com/acrofamily/familyprod/main.html
Product Comparison at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/products.html
Licensing Options at http://www.adobe.com/store/general/openoptions/main.jhtml
Complete information about Adobe Acrobat READER 5 software, available as a FREE download from the Adobe website.
Acrobat READER 5 provides the most basic level of functionality for viewing, printing, and saving blank PDF documents.
Product Info at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html
FREE Download at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Support at http://www.adobe.com/support/readguide.html
Complete information about Adobe Acrobat APPROVAL 5 software, which lists for $39.
Acrobat APPROVAL 5 provides an intermediate level of functionality for viewing, printing, and saving either blank or filled-in PDF documents.
Product Info at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrapproval/main.html
Support at http://www.adobe.com/support/products/acrobat.html
Complete information about the “full Adobe ACROBAT 5 program, which lists for $249.
The “full ACROBAT 5 program provides the highest level of functionality for creating, modifying, viewing, printing, and saving either blank or filled-in PDF documents.
Product Info at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/main.html
Support at http://www.adobe.com/support/products/acrobat.html
In addition to the links provided above, Adobe Software makes product information available by telephone at 800-833-6687, from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Pacific time, seven days a week.
Adobe product information may also be obtained from various software resellers, such as traditional computer and office-related stores, as well as online computer products vendors.
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