Rating  - Installation Nightmare - RAID 1 won't work
My initial installation of Adobe 8 failed on 32-bit Vista, though with the available patches it ultimately worked on Vista. We purchased new workstations with RAID 1 (mirrored hard drives) because of a catastrophic data loss last year.
However, to protect themselves from piracy, Adobe employed Macrovision to write their copy protection module. It will not allow Acrobat to run with mirrored drives (RAID 1). This is essentially undocumented. There were no error messages saying this product is not licensed for use on a RAID array equipped workstation. Worst of all their technical support did not know or would not say that RAID is not permitted. Rather they blamed our hardware, software, network, ...
All we saw was a locked up Adobe Acrobat 8 activation screen. After a week of working with Adobe technical support we finally proved that RAID 1 is not a permitted configuration. We, at Adobe's insistance, purchased an enterprise licensed version over and above the the retail version (not returnable). We changed out processors, motherboards and did major server (Group Policy) reconfiguration but did not fix the problem. We went through XP and Vista both 32 bit and 64 bit at Adobe's request.
Adobe really should just tell customers that RAID 1 is not permitted. Their technical support should know this and not waste a week of their customer's time trying everything else. Their blame the customer and debug in the field approach has me looking for alternatives.
Other than that it is a very good product.
Rating  - Full Version Works as Expected and What a Price
We had been pricing this elsewhere at 300 plus dollars. Wow, what a bargain we got. Works as expected, no gotchas, a smooth install and great product as Acrobat usually is.
Rating  - Good not excellent
It's a very good product but for Vista I would go with Acrobat 9. 8 and 9 are practically the same in terms of what a user can do. Adobe cleaned some of the bugs in Version 9, which is particularly important for Windows Vista.
Rating  - They'll try to screw you
Adobe has a habit of making sure their new products break their old ones, thus forcing you to upgrade. Try editing a pdf in Acrobat Professional v5.0 Seems to work... but you can't print it from any of the newer versions of the reader. Oops. And did you ever have the pdf writer? If so, you may have noticed that a fairly recent upgrade of the Reader disabled your installation of the writer. Hmmm... now why would that happen? Time to upgrade, I guess.
Do yourself a favor and find an alternative solution. Adobe wants more wallet share, and they're willing to do whatever it takes to get it.
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