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Acrobat Set to Roll Over

SAN JOSE, CA—The benefit of standards, even de facto ones like PDF, is the consistency they bring to a process. That is, unless somebody decides to move the cheese.

Graphic arts companies may soon need to do a bit of scurrying, since Adobe Systems has introduced Adobe Acrobat 6.0, supported by PDF 1.5. The upgrade is being rolled out as a family of products, including Professional, Standard, Elements and Reader applications. Documents can be saved as older versions of PDF to ensure compatibility, but some functions may be lost in the process.