Mountain Lion Versus Adobe Acobat

Question

How does Mountain Lion handle PDF documents versus Abobe Acrobat?

Answer 1

I do enjoy Preview very much and its usefulness and integration with iCloud very much.  And while Preview has the ability to open and view pdfs and make very basic annotations; I am going to have  to say this: (and this is leaning more to be true than my opinion); a person still needs to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. Unfortornate but true.  Most people will either have Adobe Acrobat Reader version 9.5.x or Adobe Acrobat Reader version 10.1.x or what ever the latest version is out this week - installed on a person's OS X computer, is. It also depends if the person has upped the version from version 9 to 10. Some people do not know version 10 is available. Also both versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader do not show up in Apple's Activity Monitor as being either 64 bit or 32 bit... so I am not sure if the application is still running at 32 bit, while Apple's Preview application does show up as being 64 bit in Apple's Activity Monitor. (What is up with that?)
There is also huge benefit and advantage in owning Adobe Professional Accrobat, however Adobe Professional Accrobat it is ridicioucly overpriced, and only marginally better from version to version. Not to mention Adobe Acrobat Professional is not located on the Mac App Store; (neither is Adobe Acrobat Reader for that matter).
While the professional program has gotten marginally better with more frills while eliminating packaging costs, shiping costs, merchant costs, return costs, etc the savings is not caryied over to the consumer. Instead it has only increased, which is ridiculous since companies are saving alot more now than before. Especially since everything is going by means of a download from either one's own digital store or another compay's digital store.The cost to the consumers has increased (even though companies use to sell their products at multiple stores and at multiple outlets.  This is the very thing companies like Adobe, and Microsoft just do not understand, and as a result their loosing a share of their market because they are not giving better customer service, by making their products less costly to the consumer and not having their products available at various exchanges or markets. Before the consumer got good service from the brick and mortar sales associates. But it is going to more of a ideology that they do not need the middle man. Unfortnatelly the middle man is always needed, just now it is in a different way - having software available at various digital stores is not only a convience to customers but acts as a sort of middle man.
While Apple's customer service has grown because of their online digital store and is always getting better because of their online store, Adobe's ability to connect with customers, and give better deserving service to their customer has shrunk because Adobe wants their product sold only at their own store, and not at other exchanges, other digital stores, or other outlets, let alone the consumer's do not have that convience any more.
As for handeling pdf documents, it really comes down to Adobe (its their own product) and how well they cooperate with Apple.
Message was edited by: Carlo TD