Acrobat.com is out of beta and ready for you to consume all of its technological goodness. What? You didn’t know Adobe’s Acrobat.com has stuff you could use, like web-based document creation/editing, online meetings, web-based pdf creation, file sharing and file storage? Well, to be honest, neither did we.
A quick breakdown of the five different services and pricing levels:
Adobe Buzzword: Perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser on Acrobat.com, so there’s no installation required.
Free: Buzzword remains a 100% free online service
No upgrade options
Adobe ConnectNow: A great way to share ideas, discuss details, and complete work together — all online. Reduce travel costs, save time, and increase productivity with a web conferencing solution that’s easy to access and simple to use.
Free: Participation of up to 3 online participants
Premium Basic: Participation of up to 5 online participants
Premium Plus: Participation of up to 20 online participants
Adobe Create PDF: Easily create Adobe PDF documents from your existing files in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and many other applications. It’s as easy as selecting your file and clicking Create PDF.
Free: Conversion of up to 5 PDF’s
Premium Basic: Conversion of up to 10 PDF’s
Premium Plus: Conversion of unlimited PDF’s
Adobe Share: Load up your files and send URLs instead of e-mailing large attachments, you and your team can access files from any computer in the office or on the road.
Free: Share any files loaded in Adobe My Files – limit 100 downloads/file
Premium Basic: Unlimited file downloads
Premium Plus: Unlimited file downloads
Adobe My Files: Organize all the files you share online, including Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, and images.
Free: Store 5GB of files with My Files free of charge
No Upgrade Options
That’s about it – good stuff from Adobe. So, if you need access to the free tools mentioned above, head over to acrobat.com. And should you need to upgrade, a premium basic membership will cost you $14.99/month or $149/year, while the Premium Plus membership runs $39/month or $390/year.
There are 2 other services from Acrobat.com that have recently launched on the Acrobat.com Labs site – Presentations and Tables. Like Buzzword, these are on-line authoring applications – making it easy to collaborate on slide decks (Presentations) and spreadsheet-like tables (Tables, of course.)
Hi, Lisa – thanks for the heads up on the new apps. For those that would like to read more, check out the Adobe Blog at: http://blogs.adobe.com/thesamepage/2009/06/say_hi_to_acrobatcom_tables_an.html.