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I've got Acrobat 7. I will be making use of the PDF 7 print driver to generate an imposed PDF from InDesign's Print Booklet. Then I will need to do simple edits to the PDF before printing. I don't really need multimedia capabilities.
I'm doing nothing fancy, just a lot of single-layer images combined with text, a few multilayer pages, a few transparencies, and the editing I will need to do is simply a word here an there. The file size is rather large though: about 3.5 GB if I generated the PDF in one go, but it will be broken into 500 MB chunks.
So, does Acrobat 9 offer any major improvements over Acrobat 7 in terms of bug fixes, reliability, quality of PDF, and editing capabilities that would entice me to buy it?

Hi Mike,
thanks for the hints, but I don't understand them. I'm new to generating a PDF from InDesign for printing so please bear with me.
This is what I am doing. An 800 page book of 50 chapters each with a separate InDesign file. I gather the chapters into Book, and use InDesign to impose into 32-page signatures. I will save each signature as a separate PDF and print the PDFs, in sequence, on a Xerox iGen. That way I can go to the out tray, and as the signatures are printed, they are ready for me to take home and bind (I'm doing that myself).
The total PDF size is about 3.5 GB. It takes a couple of hours to generate the PDF from my InDesign file using my G5 iSight. What I am very concerned about is my ability to ensure that InDesign itself is opening the book as I think it should when I make changes. Hyphenation, for instance, scares me. Just one small change can throw out a whole page, and the next, leaving blank text frames.
When I get back the first proof from the printer, I thought I would do the editing in the PDF itself because at that stage I am expecting only a few minor changes to words e.g. 'brought' to 'bought' if I have made that error and not picked it up. Come second proof stage I expect just one or two errors in the entire 800 page book and I thought it would be easier to make them just in the particular PDF chapter concerned.
So, if I find 17 errors in the first proof, I thought it would be a lot easier, and safer, just to open the PDFs where the errors are, change 'practice' to 'practise' and so on. By going the InDesign route I'd have to re impose the entire book.
Why should a person not edit in Acrobat? Can doing so cause problems that I am not aware of?

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