Today we're gonna dig a little deeper into Acrobat 8. Before you hit the pause button, hear me out. For starters it replaces Breeze, formerly a Macromedia product that provided video conferencing, white board, chat and more. It was basically the tool to use if you wanted to communicate something to multiple people or teams in disparate locations. Acrobat now lets you combine just about any combination of files. Yep, you can package things up and send them as a single pdf.
Acrobat Connect, what was Breeze, then allows your teammates to mark comments on the documents and video conference if necessary to work out any issues. Then there's automatic form creation from Word.docs. Apparently, the converted forms are interactive and collect data over the internet securely.
This all sounds like a bit much to me. But if it works like they're saying, it will be big and Adobe will surely cut into some Microsoft business mindshare. This could be just what Adobe needed. Personally, I don't know if I can ever bring myself to like Acrobat but I'm willing to take a chance.