Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Adobe's Acrobat.com office suite


Adobe launched Monday a beta version of Acrobat.com an online office suite that allows you to create word processing documents, share files, convert PDFs and hold Web conferences.

The Acrobat.com word processing tool is called Buzzword. Here's what the blank page looks like.

Warning, remember this is a brand new, free beta. The problem only lasted a few minutes.

Opening a document.

In Buzzword, Adobe uses a toolbar, similar to Photoshop, for the main edit tools, such as paragraph, font, lists, and images.

Add images by choosing the "Insert Image" icon, choose an image off your hard drive, drag and drop the image to the position you choose, and resize by clicking on the corner of your image.

When sharing a Buzzword document you can add a comment by clicking on the comment icon.

To create a table, hit the table icon and a box that you can click on to create a table will appear next to it. Then you can fill it out.

On the lower right is an icon that shows whether your work has been saved or not.

And of course, there's a spell check. There's no grammar check.

ConnectNow, Meet Anywhere is a meeting tool that is available on Acrobat.com. Here's the room you enter.

You can chat and share documents in ConnectNow.

This tool allows you to create PDF files.

You can embed a Flash preview of a file in a Web page, blog or Wiki page.

You can share files with this tool.

Acrobat.com also includes a tool that helps you manage your files.

In your file mangager, you can locate your documents through a variety of searches.

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