PDF’s have become the standard print format for many organisations enabling documents to be exchanged in the knowledge that they will be printed as designed notwithstanding the different computers or software used.

Although the Acrobat publisher was originally created by Adobe, their offering of a free reader lead to other PDF creation software (such as CutePDF). Some time ago Wordperfect integrated a publish to PDF option in its word processing program and Open Office now offers the same feature.

So when Adobe offers a new version of Acrobat it attracts a lot of attention. (see this article at Planet PDF and this article at PDF for Lawyers).

What has attracted the most interest is the ability to use the free Reader to add and save comments on a PDF if it was created by Acrobat 7 Professional.

Technolawyer has a detailed review of Acrobat 7 (free registration required). It has improved performance and organising features.