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Adobe Form Client — creates a rich form-filling experience, when the users’ environment is known, to increase
accuracy of data captured and reduce process inefficiencies. It offers flexible desktop, form-deployment options
with zero administration, an XML-based architecture for integration with core business applications, and support for
digital signatures.
Adobe Workflow Server — a server-based workflow application that allows for the design, deployment and
management of forms-based business processes to improve organizational agility and productivity; uses a rules-and
roles-based design tool that defines business rules a process must follow, as well as the roles of each individual
involved in the process.
Adobe Capture Handheld — Adobe Capture Handheld enables mobile workers to submit data captured through
intelligent electronic forms directly into core business applications, increasing organizational productivity and
agility. It provides the broadest range of features available for capturing data on products for Microsoft Windows
Powered Pocket PC and Handheld PC devices, including built-in calculation and validation capabilities, the ability
to fill in forms online or offline, and support for industry-standard digital signature technologies.
Document Collaboration
Adobe’s document collaboration products include Adobe Reader Extensions Server (below), as well as the
Adobe Acrobat product family (product descriptions for which are listed under Desktop Document Generation).
Adobe Reader ― free software for reliably reviewing and printing Adobe PDF files on a variety of hardware
and operating system platforms.
Adobe Reader Extensions Server — server-based product lets enterprises easily create and share interactive
PDF files with external parties who must interact with these documents — without requiring recipients of the
documents to acquire Acrobat software that normally would be necessary to interact with the PDF files they receive.
On an individual PDF document, it unlocks features so that when such a file is opened in the free Adobe Reader,
users have access to functionality that normally would not be available in Adobe Reader. Examples of document
collaboration features that can be enabled in Adobe Reader by this server product include the use of digital
signatures to electronically sign PDF documents, the ability to provide comments by using electronic sticky notes
and other collaborative mark-up tools, the capability to save the document and the ability to fill-in form information.
Document Control and Security
Adobe Acrobat Professional and Adobe Acrobat Standard — (in addition to features described previously)
provide extensive document controls that let organizations determine who can open, print, copy, or modify content
within a PDF document. Also offers support for digital signature technologies from leading security vendors such as
Entrust, GeoTrust, IBM, RSA Security, and Verisign.
OEM PostScript and Other
OEM PostScript and Other Market Opportunity
Graphics professionals and professional publishers require quality, reliability, and efficiency in production
printing, and we believe our printing technology provides advanced functionality to meet the sophisticated
requirements of this marketplace. As high-end printing systems evolve and transition to fully digital, composite
workflows, Adobe is uniquely positioned to be a supplier of software and technology based on the Adobe PostScript
and Adobe PDF standards for use by hardware manufacturers in this industry. Adobe generates revenues by
licensing our technology to OEMs that manufacture printers and other output devices.
OEM PostScript and Other Products
Adobe PostScript — a printing and imaging page description language that delivers high quality output,
cross-platform compatibility, and top performance for graphically-rich printing output from corporate desktop