Adobe Acrobat 4.0 for Windows Released in 1999 by Adobe Systems Incorporated For Windows 9x/NT Adobe Acrobat, first released in 1993, is a tool for creating portable electronic documents. Its documents retain complex formatting when used across differing systems, so that they appear identical when viewed on screen or printed to a printer. Acrobat accomplishes this by encapsulating Adobe's PostSript printer language in to a document file format and offering the ability to embed fonts that are not present on the target system. Acrobat was initially targeted at large businesses that wanted to electronically distribute large manuals and documents. In version 1.0, the Acrobat Reader viewer was not a free product. But once that changed, Acrobat's popularity increased and quickly became a standard. Word processing documents, desktop publishing documents, or even modern HTML do not retain the level of consistency that Acrobat Portable Document Files do. It also eliminates any need for the user to have such third party software to view or print the documents. Initially Acrobat competed against Common Ground from No Hands Software and Replica from Farallon Computing Inc Serials: Acrobat 4.0: KWW400R7573921-184 KWW400R7689259-319 KWW400Y7117693-295 Acrobat 4.05 Multilanguage WinWorld SN: KWM400R7036733-314 KMW400R7197608-448 ISO created with WinImage volume: Acrobat_4 system id: APPLE COMPUTER, INC., TYPE: 0002 application: TOAST ISO 9660 BUILDER COPYRIGHT (C) 1997 ADAPTEC, INC. - HAVE A NICE DAY Mastering date: 03/19/1999 9:50AM file system: Joliet64, DOS 8.3 Name: acr4.iso Size: 445315072 bytes (424 MiB) SHA1: 056bb563c2cfdf104649d88d6fc5c4f8eba6d552