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Subject:Re: Tools: Simultaneous revision of Word files? From:Max Wyss <prodok -at- prodok -dot- ch> To:Wrdfinesse -at- aol -dot- com Date:Tue, 17 Oct 2000 17:48:05 +0200
Anne,
The price for the Business Tools listed is for individual licences.
Adobe does have rather attractive prices for ABT when bought in bulk.
This makes this software so cheap that it is not really worth
thinking about licence pools ... just get it... <g>.
The Business Tools is what is needed for setting up complete PDF
based workflows, inlcuding digital signatures and annotations, as you
said in your message.
However, for _creating_ PDFs a full Acrobat version is still needed.
For bigger corporations (100 seats and more), it might be worthwile
to look at Distiller Server for creating PDFs, and just have a few
full packages besides the companywide distributed Business Tools.
Hope, this can help.
Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering
Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
Geoff asks about multiple folks simultaneously, rather than linearly,
reviewing a Word 97 doc.
Adobe, bless 'em, has come up with a sweet little gem called Acrobat Business
Tools. At $79 a pop, ABT provides annotation (they call it PDF markup) dig
sig, web cap, and search capabilities.
What I don't know is if they support license pools for this ...
