Adobe Systems Incorporated, the leader in network publishing, today introduced the Adobe® Acrobat® 6.0 product line, a major upgrade and expansion of the company's cornerstone software application and a critical component of its solutions for integrating documents into business processes. The new Acrobat 6.0 family enables power users, workgroups, and business professionals across the extended enterprise to efficiently create, share, review, and archive files in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), the de facto standard for reliable electronic document distribution. Building on the ubiquity of free Adobe Reader® software, and the strengths of Adobe PDF for document presentation and XML for data exchange, Adobe's desktop and server solutions provide integrated and actionable delivery of business-critical information to virtually any user inside or outside an organization. The new Acrobat 6.0 family - Acrobat 6.0 Professional, Acrobat 6.0 Standard and Acrobat Elements - offers different levels of functionality to address specific customer needs. The most comprehensive product, Acrobat 6.0 Professional, helps business, creative and engineering professionals who work with complex, graphically rich layouts to improve the process of document exchange, review and archive. Acrobat 6.0 Standard enables workgroups to simplify document reviews using intuitive tools and a new, task-based interface. Acrobat Elements is a volume-license-only product that allows enterprises to place inexpensive Adobe PDF creation capability on every desktop, enabling reliable document distribution. The company also announced Adobe Reader 6.0 software (expected to be available in by the end of May 2003), an upgrade and re-naming of the widely distributed, free Acrobat Reader. Adobe Reader, which supports numerous desktop and mobile device platforms, is the definitive application for viewing, interacting with and printing Adobe PDF content ranging from business documents and forms to Photoshop® Album slide shows, eBooks, and embedded multimedia. Adobe Reader will be available free of charge as a download from Adobe.com by the end of May 2003. Source: Adobe