14 DAY TRIAL // The free Acrobat.com online service suite provides web based applications and tools to manage and share documents and files. There are web conferences (communication in real time) and storage solutions available, as well as a word processor and an online PDF converter.
The applications and tools contained in the suite are: Share, Create PDF, Adobe Buzzword, Adobe ConnectNow and My Files. They make the online collaboration with your team a lot easier, at the same time providing flexible access from any Internet connection.
Adobe Buzzword is a web browser based word processor capable of editing and exporting many types of documents like .txt (plain text), .pdf (Adobe PDF), .docx and .doc (Microsoft Word), HTML and more. Images (JPEG, PNG or GIF) can be inserted and easily positioned in documents. Authoring rights can be assigned to users for a certain document. The free online word processor also has many other features besides the ones mentioned in this article, so much so that due its overall capabilities it could compete with commercial desktop software.
Adobe ConnectNow is an online conferencing application that makes work more productive through an efficient web based collaboration system. Among its multiple features Adobe ConnectNow provides: video conferencing opportunity, chat pod, a unique URL for your meeting room and more.
For file sharing and storage there are 5GB of web disk space for any user account. The files can be organized online in a flexible way through a simple to use interface. There are limitations regarding the type of files uploaded and respectively shared: you are not allowed to use various formats of video, audio, executable, fonts, archives or database and raster image files on the Acrobat.com account.
Acrobat.com services are supported on Microsoft Windows XP and Vista as well as on Mac OS X. The online service suite from ADOBE can also be accessed through a Rich Internet Application (the AIR version of Acrobat.com) which provides the possibility to publish, share, edit or browse documents directly from the computer desktop. The AIR version of Acrobat.com can be downloaded from here.