Adobe Acrobat Version 6.0

Adobe Acrobat Version 6.0

Acrobat 6.0 was released July 2003. No Linux or Unix versions were released:

PDF version 1.5 (and prior) supported. Added support for PKI via Microsoft Windows CryptoAPI without plug-in.

Acrobat Professional 6.0: replacement for Acrobat 5.0, with new features. Distiller printer driver renamed Adobe PDF. PDFWriter now gone for good. New version of Catalog integrated and not compatible with earlier products for searching.

Acrobat Standard 6.0: limited version of Acrobat Professional, including Distiller but lacking features including Catalog, form design, prepress support.

Updates to 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5 and 6.0.6

Dropped support for Windows 95 and Windows 98 First Edition. Acrobat Standard was for Windows 98 Second Edition, Me, NT 4.0 SP6, 2000 SP2, and XP only. The professional version dropped support for Windows 98 SE and ME. Version 6.0 also dropped support for Mac OS 9 and earlier. It was the first release for Mac OS X.

Adobe Reader 6.0: Renamed from Acrobat Reader.

Distiller Server 6.0.

Acrobat Elements 6.0: PDF creation only, aimed at the corporate market (minimum 1000 licenses, Windows only)

Acrobat Elements Server 6.0: client/server version of Acrobat Elements

Technology for "Reader enabling", allowing Reader to save, sign or annotate PDF files if the licensee had enabled the files.