On Monday Adobe announced the release of Acrobat XI.  According to Rick Borstein, author of the Acrobat for Legal Professionals blog, “the latest version of Acrobat offers many new features that will be valuable to legal professionals.”  Rick will post more in the coming weeks, but for now, here is his top 10 list of new features for lawyers:

1. PDF editing
2. Easier PDF/A conformance
3. Save PDF to PowerPoint
4. Redesigned Combine Panel (for combining PDFs)
5. Forms Central (stand alone tool for creating forms)
6. Webmail Support
7. Create PDF and Run Action (e.g. Macros)
8. Improved eSigning
9. Editing Restrictions
10. Customized Toolset (create your own Quick Tools toolbar or panels)

To understand what these changes mean and how they will enhance your use of Acrobat, read Rick’s full blog post here.