How Important Is Acrobat 5?--McIlroy

Different features appeal to different users and markets. Some people like PDF as a presentation format—it's interactive, and you can incorporate bullet text along with moving images and sound. Some favor its collaboration features—documents can be restructured, annotated and edited as they pass among a workgroup. PDF is probably the leading application supporting digital signatures, a key feature advancing the electronic document revolution. (When Bill Clinton signed into law the bill authorizing digital signatures, it was a PDF file that he "signed.")