WinLab Reviews
Aerial 1.1 and Remark 2.0
Add-Ons Make Acrobat Do Backflips

-- by Lori L. Bloomer

The new Adobe Acrobat made it to our Recommended List this month, but if you need still more, take advantage of its ability to use plug-in enhancements. Ambia Corp. offers a pair of snazzy Acrobat sidekicks-Aerial and Remark.

Remark, a mark-up program for Acrobat, lets multiple users edit, redline, highlight and comment on portions of a PDF file.

Remark overlays its edits on the document, just like handwritten mark-ups. Most of the mark-ups use a comment box with descriptive text to annotate an Acrobat file.

Remark's Annotation Manager keeps track of all your comments, additions and modifications, noting the author, date and page number. You can even set security protocols.

Aerial's Index Manager searches a primary document and other linked Acrobat documents for important words. With Quick Tags, you can add a personal mark to often-referenced pages for quick referral later on.

Aerial's Print View lets you specify a portion of a document to output, in case you only need to print part of the document.

Any serious Acrobat user should check out these add-ons.

W Info File Remark 2.0 Price: Personal-use version, free; corporate, $129.95 per user Pros: Provides complete PDF file mark-up and annotation tracking Cons: Requires Adobe Acrobat Cons: 3x, 95, NT Ambia Corp. 415-428-0160, fax 415-428-0163 Circle #871 or visit Winfo Online WinMag Box Score: 3.5

W Info File Aerial 1.1 Price: Personal-use version, free; corporate, $49.95 per user Pros: Adds printer and document management Cons: Requires Adobe Acrobat Cons: 3x, 95, NT Ambia Corp. 415-428-0160, fax 415-428-0163 Circle #870 or visit Winfo Online WinMag Box Score: 3.5

Copyright (c) 1997 CMP Media Inc.

Windows Magazine, March 1997, page 152.

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