The recent release of Adobe Acrobat 8 comes with many useful tools for attorneys, paralegals, eDiscovery specialists, knowledge managers, and document librarians to take greater control of their electronic documents. Some useful tools include redaction to permanently remove sensitive data, electronic bates numbering, document share review and collaboration, Form-field Recognition and Data Collection and many more. “Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional: a Revolution for Legal Document Production and Management” by Kevin Fayle explains some great benefits of using Adobe Acrobat 8 for legal professionals. You can read the full featured article from
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A committee of government, in conjunction with various business, and academic representatives is exploring a promising approach long-term preservation of documents using Adobe PDF standard. PDF standard will allow long-term electronic preservation of multi-page documents that may contain a mixture of text, raster images and vector graphics. You can download a detailed specifiaction of the new archiving standard from the Adobe website.