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Adobe Acrobat

Screenshot of Adobe Reader X running on Windows 7
Developer(s)	Adobe Systems
Stable release	Android 10.4.2 [edit]  (November 21, 2012; 3 months ago)[1] iOS 10.4.4 [edit]  (December 19, 2012; 2 months ago)[2] Microsoft Windows RT/8 (Metro) 1.0 [edit]  (February 1, 2013; 24 days ago)[3] Microsoft Windows XP/7/8 (Desktop) 11.0.02 [edit]  (February 20, 2013; 5 days ago)[4] Microsoft Windows Vista 10.1.6 [edit]  (February 20, 2013; 5 days ago)[5] OS X 11.0.02 [edit]  (February 20, 2013; 5 days ago)[4] Windows Phone 10.1.1.0 [edit]  (September 27, 2012; 4 months ago)[6][7] Linux 9.5.4 [edit]  (February 20, 2013; 5 days ago)[8][9] [±]
Preview release	None [±]
Written in	C++[10]
Operating system	Microsoft Windows Mac OS X GNU/Linux[11] Android iOS BlackBerry Tablet OS Windows Phone
Size	Reader: 36,1 MB[12] Acrobat Pro: 465.1 MB[13]
Type	Desktop publishing software
License	Proprietary Acrobat: Commercial software Reader: Freeware
Website	www.adobe.com/acrobat get.adobe.com/reader

Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF files).^[14] All parts of the set, except Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader, and also referred to by the program name acroread), are proprietary commercial programs, while the latter is available as freeware and can be downloaded from Adobe's website. Adobe Reader enables users to view and print PDF files but has negligible PDF creation capabilities.^[15] Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication.

Since the early 1990s, the Acrobat product has had several competitors, some of which used their own document formats, such as:

• AnyView from Binar Graphics company
• Common Ground from No Hands Software company
• Envoy from WordPerfect Corporation
• Folio from NextPage company
• Replica from Farallon Computing company
• WorldView from Interleaf company
• DjVu from AT&T Laboratories/DjVu Project/LizardTech/Varolmak/Caminova

By the late 1990s PDF had become the de facto standard. This has resulted in the development of both free and commercial programs that create or manipulate PDF. Adobe also allows Acrobat plug-ins to be developed by third parties, which can add extra functions to the Acrobat program.
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