Adobe heeft een nieuwe versie van Acrobat uitgebracht. Het gaat daarbij zowel om de Reader als om het programma waarmee de pdf-documenten kunnen worden gemaakt. Downloads zijn beschikbaar woor Windows, Mac OS X, Linux en Solaris, en de releases kunnen op deze pagina worden gevonden. Versie 9.3.3 is een zogenaamde maintenance release, die geen nieuwe mogelijkheden toevoegt. Wel is een aantal beveiligingsissues verholpen. De volledige lijst met verbeteringen is hieronder te vinden.
Improvements
SecurityAcrobat and Reader Updater
- Security vulnerabilities have been fixed. For example, see this bulletin.
- Improved security error reporting: enhancements to Windows Error Reporting (WER) on Vista and Windows 7.
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- Windows:
- General performance and reliability enhancements.
- The error dialog previously displayed only generic errors while the log recorded all errors for the Updater, Windows installer (MSI), and the OS. MSI error codes are now displayed in the UI to facilitate troubleshooting.
- Some users were seeing the Updater continue to run even though updating failed under certain conditions. The log showed error 1701. Updater failure now results in the Updater closing.
- Macintosh:
- Improvements to logging and some bug fixes (see below).
- Performance improvements have been provided for some files.
Bug fixes
Macintosh Updater
- 2626463: Footnote and endnote links do not crash Microsoft Word during conversion to PDF.
- 2576984: Notes in some 3D files weren’t displaying correctly, but now do.
- 2582993: Inserting and deleting pages using the Pages panel no longer causes a crash when saving a PDF form.
XML Forms
- 2585395: When required components are not installed, a Repair Setup dialog appears behind the Updater status dialog when installing updates. Since the dialog is hidden, the user interface appears frozen to the user.
Interaction with Microsoft Office
- 2589217: Reader 8.x, a page break in a table cell results in text-overlapping.
- 2621677: Hyphenation doesn't work properly in paragraphs with a negative indent in a rich-text field. Text can now be correctly aligned with negative text indent.
- 2605080: When creating a PDF from Word on a 64 bit OS, the PDF is not visible until after pressing the Cancel button in the progress dialog box.
- 2616790: Graphs inserted into a Word document by a 3rd party software do not appear after conversion to PDF. Occurs with Office 2007 and latest version of Acrobat.