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Adobe® Flash® Media Server on Amazon Web Services™. Advanced interactive media delivery platform with lower up-front costs.
Deploy and manage your multiprotocol media streaming easily and affordably. Adobe’s partnership with Amazon Web Services simplifies the deployment of interactive media applications using peer-assisted networking. Start creating multiuser experiences with high-quality streaming for both live and on-demand content quickly and easily. Deliver to a wide variety of platforms and devices with minimal up-front commitment or investment.

Companies can now leverage the multiprotocol streaming and interactive features of Adobe Flash Media Enterprise Server software without the licensing costs and contracts associated with managing their own servers.

Top benefits include:

• Stream live video through CloudFront to Flash, iOS, and Android devices
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Enhance the interactive capabilities of web applications with the peer-assisted networking features of Flash Media Server on Amazon Web Services. Affordably deliver breakthrough, engaging environments supported by efficient multiway communications, HD-quality video,integrated live video streams, delivery to mobile devices, plus deeper interactivity through server-side scripting access.

Use Flash Media Server on Amazon Web Services to stream media files directly from your Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) account. A read-through local disk cache is configured automatically, improving the performance of streaming media from S3.

Ingest live multibitrate streams for RTMP or HTTP Dynamic Streaming delivery. An instance of Flash Media Server on Amazon Web Services can be used:

• As an origin server for content delivery network (CDN) delivery
• As a local publishing point for live streaming, with stream split out to multiple CDNs
• To create a linear playlist to stream to a CDN

Amazon CloudFront, AWS's easy to use CDN, works seamlessly with Flash Media Server on Amazon Web Services. A detailed tutorial for setting-up live HTTP streaming using Amazon CloudFront is available here.

Deliver live and on-demand streams on the protocol of your choice:

• HTTP Streaming - Reach the widest possible audience by delivering content to Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR applications, and iOS devices. With new HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) to iPad and other iOS devices—plus new protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) for Flash Player supported on Android devices—the video experience can now be delivered smoothly and securely to more devices, with adaptive bitrate support to reach audiences without disruption.
• RTMP—streaming Support adaptive bitrate delivery and stream encryption for live and on-demand streams, along with low-latency real-time communication over industry standard RTMP/RTMPE.
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Expand your audience to include iOS devices with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). With the same media and live streams as those used for Flash Player compatible playback, you can deliver and protect full adaptive bitrate experiences to iOS devices as well as HTML5-enabled browsers.

Deliver video using HTTP for Flash Player compatible and iOS devices without preparing the assets ahead of time. On-demand packaging makes publishing easier by requiring one set of video files to deliver to multiple devices with or without Flash Player installed.

Increase the capacity and fault tolerance of your interactive media experiences using RTMFP for peer assisted delivery (p2p). Now with new server chaining technology, you can distribute peer introductions across multiple servers. Perfect for multicast streaming, game development or communications apps.

Use peer-assisted networking in Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and later software to distribute high-quality, more secure streams among peers, significantly reducing the network load. Use prebuilt tools and Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) to get started quickly and easily.

Take advantage of the enhanced functionality in Flash Player 10.1 and later, which gives interactive access to media held in the buffer. Enable features such as trick mode playback (fast motion, slow motion, and frame stepping) as well as allow the video player to continue to play buffered video while reconnecting to the server if the connection is lost. Enjoy faster switching between streams when utilizing RTMP Dynamic Streaming for adaptive bitrate delivery, which improves the user experience during bandwidth fluctuations. RTMP Dynamic Streaming is a quality of service (QoS) feature that responds to changes in a viewer’s bandwidth or computing resources and quickly switches between bitrates during playback without disruption.

Create deep access controls such as domain white and black listing, external server authentication, authorization plug-ins, and other custom applications that protect interactive media experiences.

Deliver breakthrough, engaging environments with enhanced multiuser experiences (such as video chat, Voice over Internet Protocol, video overlays, server-side playlists, and server-side recording), plus deeper interactivity through an extensible development architecture and rich server-side scripting support.

Help ensure that existing time codes persist within media files to allow richer synchronization between streams, improving interactive experiences (such as switching audio tracks or camera angles) with multibitrate and multistream video and synchronized playback events.

Get started right away with easy, out-of-the-box deployment. Flash Media Server for Amazon Web Services makes it simple with prebuilt features for live, video on demand, and multiprotocol delivery of encrypted media to Flash Player and the Adobe AIR® runtime. Simply configure an Amazon EC2 instance to run a Flash Media Server Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and get up and running in minutes.

Deliver HD-quality video over standard HTTP network infrastructures with HTTP Dynamic Streaming support for both live and on-demand streams. Flash Media Server on Amazon Web Services provides:

• Live packaging
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Archive live, high-definition streams on the server and enable HD DVR functionality (instant replay and time shifting) with support for H.264 stream recording for both RTMP and HTTP Dynamic Streaming. Pause a live stream, or seek backwards into the video that was missed.

For more information, please visit http://www.adobe.com. For pricing details, please visit http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/amazonwebservices/.

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Quick Summary

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is the industry standard PDF editing program creating by the company who invented the format. It’s designed for those who need the most comprehensive feature set, and are willing to commit to learning how the program works.

All of that power comes at a price: subscriptions cost at least $179.88 a year. (You can get Acrobat Pro for Mac on Amazon — including a cheaper student version if you prefer a one-off purchase.) But for professionals who need the most powerful editor, Acrobat DC remains the best option. If you’ve already subscribed to Adobe Creative Cloud, Acrobat DC is included.

But if you prefer an easy-to-use editor, PDFpen and PDFelement are both intuitive and affordable, and I recommend them. If your needs are very simple, Apple’s Preview may do everything you need.

• A powerful app with every feature you need
• Much easier to use than I expected
• Lots of security and privacy features
• Document Cloud makes sharing, tracking and collaboration easy

• The font was not always matched correctly
• Extra text boxes sometimes made editing difficult

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// Why Should You Trust Me?
// What Is Adobe Acrobat DC?
// Adobe Acrobat Pro: What's in it For You?
// ​The Reasons Behind My Ratings
// ​Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat
// Conclusion

Why Should You Trust Me?

My name is Adrian Try. I’ve been using computers since 1988, and Macs full time since 2009. In my quest to go paperless, I created thousands of PDFs from the stacks of paperwork that used to fill my office. I also use PDF files extensively for ebooks, user manuals and reference.

I’ve been using the free Acrobat Reader since it was released in the early 90s, and I’ve watched print shops perform magic with Adobe’s PDF editor, turning a training manual from A4 pages to an A5 booklet in seconds. I hadn’t used the app personally, so I downloaded the demonstration version and tested it thoroughly.

What did I discover? The content in the summary box above will give you a good idea of my findings and conclusions. Read on for the details about everything I liked and disliked about Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

What Is Adobe Acrobat DC?

Acrobat DC is Adobe’s PDF editor. It can be used to create, edit and share PDF documents. Adobe invented the PDF format in 1991 with a vision of turning paper documents into digital files, so you would expect their PDF software to be best-in-class.

DC stands for Document Cloud, an online document storage solution Adobe introduced in 2015 to facilitate collaboration on PDF documents, sharing information, and signing official documentation.

Adobe Acrobat DC Standard vs Pro

Adobe Acrobat DC comes in two flavors: Standard and Pro. In this review we are focusing on the Pro version.

The Standard version has most of the features of Pro, except the following:

• the latest support for Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac
• scan paper to PDF
• compare two versions of a PDF
• read PDFs aloud.

For many people, the Standard version will be all they need.

Is Adobe Acrobat Free?

No, it’s not free, though the well-known Adobe Acrobat Reader is. There’s a seven day full-feature trial available, so you can fully test the program before paying. Once the trial is finished, use the Buy button on the bottom left of the screen.

Like all Adobe applications, Acrobat Pro is subscription-based, so you can’t purchase the program outright. There are a number of subscriptions options available, and each includes a subscription to Document Cloud. (You can also purchase the product on Amazon without a subscription, but you don’t get access to Document Cloud.)

Acrobat DC Pro

• $14.99 a month with a one-year commitment
• $24.99 a month with no commitment
• One-off purchase on Amazon for Mac and Windows (without Document Cloud)

Acrobat DC Standard

• $12.99 a month with a one-year commitment
• $22.99 a month with no commitment
• One-off purchase on Amazon for Windows (without Document Cloud) – currently unavailable for Mac

If you’ll be using the app on an ongoing basis, you’ll save a substantial amount of cash by making that one-year commitment. If you’re already subscribing to the complete Adobe package, then you already have access to Acrobat DC.

Is Adobe Acrobat Safe?

Yes, it is safe to use. I ran and installed Acrobat on my macOS Sierra based MacBook Air. A scan using Bitdefender found no viruses or malicious code.

Adobe Acrobat Pro: What’s in it For You?

Since Adobe Acrobat is all about creating, modifying and sharing PDF documents, I’m going to list all its features by putting them into the following five sections. The screenshots below are from the Mac version of Acrobat, but the Windows version should look similar. In each subsection, I’ll first explore what the app offers and then share my personal take.

1. Create PDF Documents

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC offers various ways to create a PDF. On clicking the Create PDF icon, you’re given a bunch of options, including Blank Page, where you create the file manually within Acrobat.

From there you can click on Edit PDF in the right panel to add text and images to the document.

But instead of using Acrobat DC to create the PDF, you can use an app you’re already familiar with, say Microsoft Word, to create the document, and then convert it to a PDF with it. This can be done with single or multiple Microsoft or Adobe documents, or web pages (even whole sites).

If that’s not enough, you can scan a paper document, take a screenshot of a document from an app that’s not supported, and create a PDF from the contents of the clipboard. When converting a Word document to a PDF, tables, fonts and page layouts are all retained.

Creating a PDF from a website is surprisingly simple. Just enter the URL of the site, specify whether you want just the page, a specified number of levels, or the whole site, and Acrobat does the rest.

The entire site is placed in a single PDF. Links work, videos play, and bookmarks are automatically created for every web page. I tried this with the SoftwareHow website. Most of the PDF looks great, but there are a few cases where text does not fit and images overlap.

When working with scanned paper documents, Acrobat’s optical character recognition is superb. Not only is text recognized, but the correct font is used as well, even if the app has to create the font automatically from scratch.

Edward Mendolson from PCMag commented on this feature when it was introduced in 2015: “You can edit or add text in a font that Acrobat constructs from the existing text in the PDF, even the uneven-looking text in a scanned image made from an old printed book. No other PDF or optical-character-reading software does anything remotely similar.”

My personal take: Adobe offers multiple ways to create PDFs. The process is simple, and usually the results are excellent.

2. Create , Fill In and Sign Interactive PDF Forms

Forms are an important part of operating a business, and Acrobat can create PDF forms either to print to paper or fill in digitally. You can create a form from scratch, or import an existing form created with another program. Acrobat DC’s Prepare Forms feature converts Word, Excel, PDF or scanned forms into fillable PDF forms.

To test this feature I downloaded a vehicle registration form (just a normal PDF form that can’t be filled in online), and Acrobat converted it into a fillable form automatically.

All fields were automatically recognized.

Electronic signatures are now supported through Document Cloud: “You’ll need a desktop version of Acrobat DC that includes a Document Cloud subscription to send PDFs out for electronic signatures. Even though Adobe’s mobile apps may be tied to your Document Cloud, you can’t send a document out for a signature from one of them. But no subscription is required to sign, comment on, or save them.” (Alan Stafford, MacWorld)

Amazon Adobe Acrobat Standard

Acrobat’s Fill and Sign feature allows you to use the app to fill in the form with a signature, and the Send for Signature feature lets you send the form so others can sign, and track the results.

My personal take: I was impressed with how quickly Acrobat DC created a fillable form from an existing document. Most businesses use forms, and allowing them to be filled out on smart phones, tablets and laptops is a huge convenience and time saver.

3. Edit and Markup Your PDF Documents

The ability to edit an existing PDF is incredibly useful, whether it’s to correct mistakes, update details that have changed, or include supplemental information. The Edit PDF feature allows you to make changes to the text and images within a PDF document. Text boxes and image borders are displayed, and can be moved around the page.

To try this feature, I downloaded a coffee machine manual with a lot of photos and text. When editing text, the app tries to match the original font. This did not always work for me. Here I repeated the word “manual” to make the font difference crystal clear.

Edward Mendelson of PC Magazine had better luck when he first tried the feature in 2015. “For me, the most spectacular new feature is Acrobat Pro DC’s ability to add or edit text in a document’s original font — even if document is a scanned image made from a book printed in an old hot-metal font that doesn’t exist on any computer.”

Added text flows within the text box, but doesn’t automatically move onto the next page when the current page is full. As a second test, I downloaded a PDF book of short stories. This time the font was matched perfectly.

But MacWorld’s Alan Stafford didn’t always find editing easy. “However, it was difficult to click in the correct text box to edit in such a document, because you may see multiple, overlapping boxes. And when I tried to use Edit PDF on a couple of recent store receipts containing very clear, monospaced-font text, Acrobat made very little of the text editable. If you don’t like the result, you can’t undo, either — you have to close the document and start over.”

I had a similar problem. Note the word “important” in the following screenshot of the coffee machine manual. Those additional text boxes make the word very difficult to edit.

Besides editing text and images, you can use Acrobat DC for large scale organization of your document. Page thumbnails make it simple to rearrange the pages of your document using drag-and-drop.

Pages can be inserted and deleted from a right-click menu.

There’s also an Organize Pages view to facilitate this.

Besides actual editing of the document, it can be handy to mark up a PDF when collaborating or studying. Acrobat includes an intuitive sticky notes and highlighter tools at the end of the toolbar.

My personal take: Adobe Acrobat DC makes editing and marking up a PDF a breeze. In most cases, the original font is matched perfectly, though this failed in one of my tests. In some cases extra text boxes may complicate the editing process, and when adding text to one page, content won’t flow to the next automatically. Consider making complex or extensive edits to the original source document (like Microsoft Word), then convert it to PDF again.

4. Export & Share Your PDF Documents

PDFs can be exported to editable document types, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Export has been improved, so it should work much better than previous versions of Acrobat.

But this feature is still not perfect. Our complex coffee machine manual with lots of images and text boxes don’t look quite right when exported.

But our book of short stories looks perfect.

PDFs can be shared with others on Document Cloud using the Send & Track feature.

Document Cloud was introduced in 2015, as reviewed by MacWorld’s Alan Stafford: “Instead of incorporating new features into its Creative Cloud subscription service, Adobe is introducing a new cloud, called the Document Cloud (DC for short), a document-management and document-signing service for which Acrobat is the interface, on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone.”

Sharing documents in this way is very convenient for businesses. Instead of attaching a large PDF to an email, you just include a downloadable link. That removes file constraints for emails.

My personal take: The ability to export PDFs to editable file formats really opens up your options, and allows you to repurpose those documents in ways that wouldn’t be possible otherwise. Adobe’s new Document Cloud allows you to share and track PDFs easily, which is especially important when waiting for forms to be filled in or signed.

5. Protect the Privacy and Security of Your PDFs

Digital security becomes more important every year. Acrobat’s Protect tool gives you various ways to secure your PDF documents: you can encrypt your documents with a certificate or password, restrict editing, permanently remove information that has been hidden in the document (so that it can’t be recovered), and more.

Redaction is a common way of protecting sensitive information when sharing documents with third parties. I couldn’t see how to do this with Acrobat DC, so turned to Google.

The Redaction tool isn’t displayed in the right pane by default. I discovered you can search for it. This made me wonder how many other features are hidden like that.

Redaction happens in two steps. First, you mark for redaction.

Then you apply the redaction throughout the entire document.

My personal take: Adobe Acrobat DC gives you a variety of ways to secure and protect your documents, including requiring a password to open the document, blocking others from being able to edit the PDF, and the redaction of sensitive information within the PDF. While it was hard to find the redaction feature, all of this worked well.

The Reasons Behind My Ratings

Effectiveness: 5/5

Adobe Acrobat DC is the industry standard when it comes to creating and editing PDFs. This app provides every PDF feature you could ever need.

Price: 4/5

A subscription costing at least $179.88 a year isn’t cheap, but as a business expense is entirely justifiable. If you’ve already subscribed to Adobe’s Creative Cloud, Acrobat is included. If you just need the app for a job here or there, you can pay $24.99 a month with no commitment.

Ease of Use: 4/5

For an app that focuses on comprehensive features rather than ease of use, it’s a lot easier to use than I expected. However, not all features are transparent, and I found myself scratching my head and Googling a few times.

Support: 4.5/5

Adobe is a big company with an extensive support system, including help documents, forums and a support channel. Phone and chat support is available, but not for all products and plans. When I tried to use the Adobe website to discover my support options, there was a page error.

Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat

ABBYY FineReader: FineReader is a well-respected app that shares many features with Adobe Acrobat DC. It’s not cheap, but doesn’t require a subscription. See the full review of ABBYY FineReader here.

Smile PDFpen: PDFpen is a popular Mac PDF editor and costs $74.95, or $124.95 for the Pro version. Read our PDFpen review.

Wondershare PDFelement: PDFelement is another affordable PDF editor, costing $59.95 (Standard) or $99.95 (Professional). See our full review of PDFelement.

Apple Preview: The Mac’s Preview app allows you to not only view PDF documents, but mark them up as well. The Markup toolbar includes icons for sketching, drawing, adding shapes, typing text, adding signatures, and adding pop-up notes. This functionality will be expanded in High Sierra.

Conclusion

A PDF is the closest thing to paper that you’ll find on your computer, and is used for business documents and forms, training material, and scanned documents. Adobe Acrobat DC Pro is the most powerful way to create, edit and share PDFs.

If you’re a professional looking for the most comprehensive PDF toolkit, then Adobe Acrobat DC Pro is the best tool for you. It offers multiple ways to create PDF documents and forms, allows you to edit and reorganize PDFs, and has the best security and sharing features in the business. I recommend it.