Acrobat Standard vs. Pro?

In the past, I've used Acrobat 7 Pro to proofread PDFs, just making edits in the margins and commenting in text boxes, not permanently altering the text. I also reduced the size of PDFs that got too large after extensive editing. It's time to upgrade (I have Win 7 on a new computer) and I was wondering if Standard would fit my needs instead, as I find Pro a bit overkill, with features that I will probably never use, and Standard is less expensive. Any advice?

At Adobe's Acrobat product comparison web page:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/matrix.html
For Standard & Pro
Review documents with a complete set of commenting tools such as sticky notes, highlighting, lines, shapes, and stamps
It may be that Acrobat X Standard will meet your needs.
With that said, Acrobat X Pro would "grow" on you.
Consider - You annotate many PDFs through the course of time. You might desire to aggregate PDFs of a common topic.
Rather than parking them in the Fibber McGee closet of the HDD you could make effective use of Portfolios.
If desired, you could add audio annotations. More comes to mind.
Basically, the Pro release opens horizons not previously considered.
Be well...

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:22:02 -0600
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