Replacement for Adobe Acrobat Professional?

There is another alternative that I have been looking at, it is from a group called Qoppa Software and the software is called PDF Studio.  It is very reasonable priced and they are doing a lot of creative marketing and pricing to get into the University Marketplace.  Qoppa Software LLC, 1440 Dutch Valley Place, Suite 1200, Atlanta, GA (Chris Dyess and Betsy Spinks).  I actually have a demo of it on my machine and it is a very cool tool that is easy to use.  Jerry

From: The EDUCAUSE Software Licensing Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:LICENSING@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Wright, Mitzi
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Our students are now using Corel Products.
Mitzi Wright
Software & Compliance Manager, Sr
Wake Forest University
336-758-5764

I have tested this PDF tool in our environment and the test users gave favorable feedback.

http://www.nuance.com/for-business/by-product/pdf/pdf-converter-enterprise/index.htm

Matthew

Matthew J. Marr

Enterprise Application Management

Office of Information Technology

The University of Texas at San Antonio

One UTSA Circle

San Antonio, Texas 78249

office:  210-458-7271

matthew.marr@utsa.edu

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Sounds like it's worth comparing a number of them.  Here's one site that breaks out some of the dimensions for comparison, although it doesn't have all the ones mentioned (does have CutePDF).

jkt

http://convert-pdf-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

Our managed workstations are deployed with Foxit exclusively and it seems to work well in our environment.

Best,

Ann

Ann Brainard-Dougan

ann.brainard-dougan@yale.edu

Software Administrator

Yale University Vendor Management

150 Munson Street, 4th Floor

New Haven, CT  06511

(US Mail:  P.O. Box 208207

New Haven,  CT 06520-8207)

Phone:  203-737-6021

Cell:  203-687-9695

Great idea  Janice!

____________________________________________________

Margaret H. Knox                  mknox@utsystem.edu

Chief Information Officer (CIO)     (512)322-3774   

The University of Texas System

CTJ 2.218 78701

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I fell a matrix coming on...

Would anyone be interested in doing a shared Google spreadsheet sort of thing where we could list features and provide feedback on the Acrobat replacements we've had experience with or test?

I could pull some of the data from the matrix on the "top 10" list web site, in terms of what features we want to compare and throw one together over the next week or so (I'm out of the office til next Thursday).

Janice

A good start on such a document can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software

Regards,

John Twigg

Manager, Field Technology

Regis University

Denver, CO

jtwigg@regis.edu

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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 6:33 PM
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I agree. Great Idea

Thanks, Janice!

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Thomas Trappler, ASM

Director, UCLA Software Licensing

Email: trappler@oit.ucla.edu

Phone: 310-825-7516

Twitter: @ThomasTrappler

As I've  been promising, we're about to start comparing these.  And Office 2013 is a prime candidate for a replacement.  There's clearly a battle going on between the two, as Adobe made some significant changes in terms of editing functionality in version 11.  I've also collected the names that others sent me when I first asked about it here, which I'll be happy to share.

I'm hoping we'll be able to kick this off shortly.

jkt

You may find this webinar of some value.

See why Nuance's PDF solution is really the Best-Buy.

Industry analyst, The Photizo Group, and Nuance product experts uncover the true differences between Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise 8 and Adobe Acrobat XI.

http://app.marketing.nuance.com/e/es?s=274&e=598874&elq=a3bc0ef16b134e66b4b5985aece91fb1

Thanks, Janice!

====================================

Thomas Trappler, ASM

Director, UCLA Software Licensing

Email: trappler@oit.ucla.edu

Phone: 310-825-7516

Twitter: @ThomasTrappler

As I've  been promising, we're about to start comparing these.  And Office 2013 is a prime candidate for a replacement.  There's clearly a battle going on between the two, as Adobe made some significant changes in terms of editing functionality in version 11.  I've also collected the names that others sent me when I first asked about it here, which I'll be happy to share.

I'm hoping we'll be able to kick this off shortly.

jkt

I’ve found most people use the terms Acrobat, Adobe, Reader, and PDF interchangeably.  I’m guessing your faculty don’t really know what they’re talking about, but don’t tell them I said so.  For the purposes of grant submission, it shouldn’t really matter how the PDF is created….that’s the whole point of PDF (in theory, anyway).  That said, my impression is that most of our faculty are using Acrobat.

Russ Born

Manager

Student Computing Facilities

Information Services

Oregon State University

On my campus, and to some extent, at the other University of California campuses, we have begun to evaluate alternatives to Acrobat Pro.

We have found that many faculty will not switch products because the NIH and/or other granting agencies require proposals to be submitted via Acrobat. (This previous sentence is paraphrasing faculty remarks – I do not know how correct it is.)

When I asked a Nuance rep about this, he reported this reply from NIH:

NIH and other PHS agencies require all text attachments to the SF424 (R&R) application forms to be submitted as PDF files. Applicants should prepare text attachments using any word processing program (following the format requirements in Section 2.6) and then convert those files to PDF before attaching the files to the appropriate component in the application package. (The PDF format is used to preserve document formatting.)

As faculty may be more comfortable with recommendations from other faculty than from IT, can any of you point to faculty who routinely use products other than Acrobat when submitting grant proposals?

You may find this webinar of some value.

See why Nuance's PDF solution is really the Best-Buy.

Industry analyst, The Photizo Group, and Nuance product experts uncover the true differences between Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise 8 and Adobe Acrobat XI.

http://app.marketing.nuance.com/e/es?s=274&e=598874&elq=a3bc0ef16b134e66b4b5985aece91fb1

Thanks, Janice!

====================================

Thomas Trappler, ASM

Director, UCLA Software Licensing

Email: trappler@oit.ucla.edu

Phone: 310-825-7516

Twitter: @ThomasTrappler

As I've  been promising, we're about to start comparing these.  And Office 2013 is a prime candidate for a replacement.  There's clearly a battle going on between the two, as Adobe made some significant changes in terms of editing functionality in version 11.  I've also collected the names that others sent me when I first asked about it here, which I'll be happy to share.

I'm hoping we'll be able to kick this off shortly.

jkt

If you just need your docs in pdf, then both MS Office and Libre Office print directly to pdf, as do browsers. We also install CutePDF on machines we build. This is free and saves anything printable as pdf.

Ed Zucker

Colorado School of Mines

I’ve found most people use the terms Acrobat, Adobe, Reader, and PDF interchangeably.  I’m guessing your faculty don’t really know what they’re talking about, but don’t tell them I said so.  For the purposes of grant submission, it shouldn’t really matter how the PDF is created….that’s the whole point of PDF (in theory, anyway).  That said, my impression is that most of our faculty are using Acrobat.

Russ Born

Manager

Student Computing Facilities

Information Services

Oregon State University

On my campus, and to some extent, at the other University of California campuses, we have begun to evaluate alternatives to Acrobat Pro.

We have found that many faculty will not switch products because the NIH and/or other granting agencies require proposals to be submitted via Acrobat. (This previous sentence is paraphrasing faculty remarks – I do not know how correct it is.)

When I asked a Nuance rep about this, he reported this reply from NIH:

NIH and other PHS agencies require all text attachments to the SF424 (R&R) application forms to be submitted as PDF files. Applicants should prepare text attachments using any word processing program (following the format requirements in Section 2.6) and then convert those files to PDF before attaching the files to the appropriate component in the application package. (The PDF format is used to preserve document formatting.)

As faculty may be more comfortable with recommendations from other faculty than from IT, can any of you point to faculty who routinely use products other than Acrobat when submitting grant proposals?

You may find this webinar of some value.

See why Nuance's PDF solution is really the Best-Buy.

Industry analyst, The Photizo Group, and Nuance product experts uncover the true differences between Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise 8 and Adobe Acrobat XI.

http://app.marketing.nuance.com/e/es?s=274&e=598874&elq=a3bc0ef16b134e66b4b5985aece91fb1

Thanks, Janice!

====================================

Thomas Trappler, ASM

Director, UCLA Software Licensing

Email: trappler@oit.ucla.edu

Phone: 310-825-7516

Twitter: @ThomasTrappler

As I've  been promising, we're about to start comparing these.  And Office 2013 is a prime candidate for a replacement.  There's clearly a battle going on between the two, as Adobe made some significant changes in terms of editing functionality in version 11.  I've also collected the names that others sent me when I first asked about it here, which I'll be happy to share.

I'm hoping we'll be able to kick this off shortly.

jkt

I think it has been said before, but Word 2013 lets you open every pdf file we have found, edit and save as pdf.

Chip

Chip Eckardt
CIO
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
105 Garfield Ave.
Eau Claire, WI 54701
Phone 715-836-4636 ext. 362381
eckardpp@uwec.edu

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Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 1:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [LICENSING] Replacement for Adobe Acrobat Professional?

Thanks, Janice!

====================================

Thomas Trappler, ASM

Director, UCLA Software Licensing

Email: trappler@oit.ucla.edu

Phone: 310-825-7516

Twitter: @ThomasTrappler

As I've  been promising, we're about to start comparing these.  And Office 2013 is a prime candidate for a replacement.  There's clearly a battle going on between the two, as Adobe made some significant changes in terms of editing functionality in version 11.  I've also collected the names that others sent me when I first asked about it here, which I'll be happy to share.

I'm hoping we'll be able to kick this off shortly.

jkt