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Adobe has announced the latest version of its Acrobat suite of products - Acrobat X – is set to be available in South Africa around the middle of November. The new Reader X and Acrobat X products are promising tighter security, better collaboration, and easier PDF reading.

The free Adobe Reader X will offer a new Protected Mode to sandbox, or isolate, JavaScript code, 3D rendering, and image parsing in order to better secure PDFs. Adobe has seen an increasing number of security holes in its PDF technology over the past few years, creating trouble for the many people who use the ubiquitous file format. The company is looking to sandboxing, a feature used by Microsoft for Office and Google for Chrome, to counteract those PDF security flaws.

Beyond the tighter security, Reader X will offer Sticky Notes and Highlighter tools for people who want to add comments to a PDF. And users on the go will be able to grab mobile versions of Reader X for Android, Windows Phone 7, and the BlackBerry Tablet operating systems.

For people who need to create and edit PDFs, the Acrobat X lineup will roll out in three different versions:

Acrobat X Standard - will offer a basic set of new features, including the ability to convert a PDF to a Word document or Excel spreadsheet and integration with Microsoft’s SharePoint. The Standard edition will retail for R2,859.12 and offer an upgrade price of R1,334.69.

Acrobat X Professional will provide the basics plus additional features. PDF Portfolios will let you combine a variety of different types of files to create a single portfolio with customized themes, layouts, and logos. The new Actions feature will allow you to automate time-consuming tasks and share those with other people. The Pro version is expected to cost around R4,056.80 with a R1,906.51 upgrade fee.

And Acrobat X Suite will team up Adobe Acrobat X Pro, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Captivate 5, Adobe Presenter 7, Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES2, and Adobe Media Encoder CS5. The suite will carry a price tag of R11,471.09 with a R7,646.98 upgrade cost.

Adobe is also unveiling a couple of new cloud-based services. A kind of virtual post office, Adobe SendNow will let you send, receive, and keep track of large files.  The idea behind this service is to help people avoid e-mail gateways that restrict file size and FTP servers that can be difficult to use. Adobe’s new CreatePDF will convert a file to a PDF from within Adobe Reader X or any Web browser. Both services will debut in November.

Adobe users can now preorder any of the Acrobat X products from WebAntics Online

WebAntics.co.za announced the availability of Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended software, must-have releases of the professional industry standard for digital imaging. 

Adobe’s Photoshop is the software choice of many web designers, photographers and artists all over the world, and now with the release of the new Photoshop CS5 and CS5 Extended, even more professionals are sure to make it their go-to software choice. Packing in more technological advancements from Adobe Labs than any other release and incorporating enhancements to everyday tasks requested by the Photoshop community, the software has greater intelligence and awareness of the content within images, allowing for complex and magical manipulation in just a few clicks. Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended delivers everything in Photoshop CS5, as well as advanced tools for 3-D which address the unique needs of the video, Web, medical, manufacturing and engineering industries. 

Adobe Photoshop CS5 and CS5 Extended are available immediately. Adobe Photoshop CS5 is priced at R7351.49 and R10,500.91 for Photoshop CS5 Extended. Upgrade pricing starts at R2217.12. For more information visit WebAntics Online