Adobe Introduces Acrobat Elements Server for Enterprise-wide PDF Creation

    Adobe Systems Incorporated today introduced Adobe
    Acrobat (R) Elements Server, new software that provides customers
    greater control over the deployment and maintenance of Adobe Portable
    Document Format (PDF) generation across the enterprise. The product
    joins the company’s comprehensive line of Adobe PDF creation
    applications, including Acrobat Elements 6.0 desktop software. Now,
    organizations have the flexibility to offer PDF generation via the
    desktop or server, based on specific IT and document process needs.

    Using Acrobat Elements Server, IT managers can centrally deploy
    PDF creation capabilities across a company without the need to manage
    additional client software on the desktop. Through a selection of user
    interfaces — the Web for uploading documents, email aliases for
    sending attachments, or watched folders for drag-and-drop submissions
    — the product enables Adobe PDF conversion from a variety of common
    file types. Using the Web services API, Acrobat Elements Server also
    can be integrated into more complex document creation and assembly
    workflows driven by enterprise content management systems.

    “Enterprise document automation requires document services, such
    as document generation, to be centrally managed, yet easily accessed
    by end users and customized by IT managers and enterprise systems,”
    said Tim Hickernell, vice president, META Group. “Server-based
    document creation decreases deployment and support costs and optimizes
    document generation performance.”

    Regardless of deployment method, Acrobat Elements Server provides
    IT administrators the flexibility and power to control the nature of
    PDF files generated by certain departments, or the entire company, to
    ensure they meet specific document generation requirements. For
    example, a finance department may need 128-bit encryption placed on
    all PDF files or a marketing communications workgroup might require
    press-ready PDF documents. In each case, Acrobat Elements Server can
    be configured to automatically deliver the desired result and help
    maximize productivity.

    “Wharton faculty, students and staff rely on Adobe PDF for sharing
    information across the enterprise,” said Kendall Whitehouse, director
    of Advanced Technology Development for the Wharton School of the
    University of Pennsylvania, which enrolls thousands and employs
    hundreds across 11 academic departments and 17 research centers. “For
    a global organization, with faculty and students frequently studying
    and working across the continent and around the globe, the flexibility
    of offering server-based PDF creation via the Web from anywhere, at
    any time and on any computer will be invaluable.”

    Acrobat Elements Server supports Adobe PDF conversion from
    numerous desktop file types, including Microsoft(R) Word, Excel and
    PowerPoint(R), Corel(R) WordPerfect(R), Adobe Photoshop(R) and many
    popular image formats. Like the entire Acrobat 6.0 family, Acrobat
    Elements Server generates high-quality Adobe PDF files based on the
    latest version of the PDF specification.

    After an Adobe PDF file is generated by Acrobat Elements Server
    and returned to the requestor, it can be more securely and reliably
    distributed to colleagues, partners and customers across the extended
    enterprise. To view and print PDF files created by the product, users
    can employ free Adobe Reader(R) software. The company has distributed
    over half-a-billion copies of Adobe Reader since its 1993
    introduction.

    Pricing and Availability

    Acrobat Elements Server for Windows(R) 2000 (SP4), Windows 2000
    Server (SP4), and Windows XP Professional (SP1) is available through
    Adobe’s Open Options licensing programs, and will be sold on a
    per-user and per-server basis. Pricing begins at US$28 per user for a
    1,000 user license or at US$22,500 per server. Acrobat Elements Server
    will be available in English only and is expected to ship by the end
    of November 2003. For more information, please visit
    www.adobe.com/products/acrobatelserver. Customers in North America can
    call 1-866-766-2256.

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