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Feature and platform comparison for the Acrobat 6.0 family and Adobe Reader

Reading Adobe PDF files
Feature Adobe® Reader® (included with Acrobat 6.0 Elements) Adobe Acrobat® 6.0 Standard Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional Windows® Mac OS X
New: Read PDF files aloud using standard operating system text-to-speech Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
New: Quickly evaluate the accessibility of a PDF file Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
New: Customize the font size in the Acrobat 6.0 navigation panels Yes Yes Yes Yes  
New: Choose alternate reading orders Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
New: Take advantage of Japanese language support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Improved: Use keyboard navigation Yes Yes Yes Yes  
Utilize advanced reading functions using Windows-based screen readers Yes Yes Yes Yes  
View documents in high-contrast mode Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Zoom in on text and reflow it to fit any size view Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Save Adobe PDF content as text (.txt) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Creating accessible Adobe PDF files
Feature Adobe Reader (included with Acrobat 6.0 Elements) Acrobat 6.0 Standard Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional Windows Mac OS X
New: Reduce the size of tagged Adobe PDF files for faster download times   Yes Yes Yes Yes
Improved: Convert existing PDF documents to tagged Adobe PDF files   Yes Yes Yes Yes
Create tagged Adobe PDF files within Microsoft® Office 2000 and Office XP Yes Yes Yes Yes  
Add security while retaining accessibility Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Add text to scanned pages for improved accessibility   Yes Yes Yes Yes
Export text from Adobe PDF files to Text (.txt) format, Rich Text Format (.rtf), XML, HTML, and Word ((.doc)   Yes Yes Yes Yes

Optimizing Adobe PDF files for accessibility
Feature Adobe Reader (included with Acrobat 6.0 Elements) Acrobat 6.0 Standard Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional Windows Mac OS X
New: Review and modify the reflow order of objects on a page     Yes Yes Yes
Improved: Check and touch up documents for accessibility     Yes Yes Yes
Improved: Create and optimize accessible Adobe PDF forms     Yes Yes Yes