When you paste this area, an image is positioned, reproducing the chosen content. The "Take snapshot" tool within the "Edit" menu copies a region selected by the user to the clipboard. Likewise, the copy of images or text passages in Reader XI also received news. A side panel displays annotation tools - "Sticky Note" or "Highlight Text" - and a list of all notes made in the document, making it easy to find a particular citation or important passage of the text. Though possible in earlier versions of the program, annotations have been enhanced in Reader XI. Adobe CreatePDF allows you to create PDFs directly from Adobe Reader XI, or programs such as Word or Excel using the "Print to PDF" option.
When the file to be shared is not so large as to require SendNow or an FTP, the document can be automatically attached to an e-mail message, also with a simple click.Īnother interesting possibility that appears for the first time in Adobe Reader XI is the creation of PDF files from the official online conversion service.
Thanks to the integration with the SendNow service, sending very large files to a group of users, depending on the account classification in the company service, becomes as easy as sending an email. Sharing has been a trend in the online world for a long time, and now comes to the Adobe document reader. This mode is standard since the application was first initialized, but can be reconfigured in the preferences of Adobe Reader XI. Adobe Reader XI's "Enhanced security" is very similar to the existing "sandbox" mode in Chrome and other applications for Windows 7 and Vista, limiting the access of information from documents to other parts of the computer. But with the advancement of technology and new options the format has brought - such as video viewing and form filling - threats and weaknesses hitherto unknown began to be exploited by malicious people.īecause multimedia features and document interaction use definitions and libraries from other programs in addition to the PDF reader, data exchange between Adobe Reader and libraries, for example, allowed malicious code to take advantage of that loophole to include viruses or other malware on the computer that opened that document.Īdobe Reader XI uses a well-known method - the sandbox - to reduce this risk. Opening PDF files has already been considered a quiet and safe activity. Software loading is much faster, both in windows as well as as a plugin in browsers. The advantages of Adobe Reader XI have been realized since the application was first booted.
Adobe Reader XI further increases the distance between it and its competitors by becoming more agile and more secure, without losing functionality. For more options that exist for reading PDF documents, it is not possible to say that any of them is actually better - at least technically - than the tool developed by the creators of the format.