Download Adobe Reader 7.0.8

Adobe Systems updated Adobe Reader to version 7.08 a few days ago. With this program, documents of the Portable Document Format type can be read and printed on the computer. It is also possible to search these documents for words or phrases. The software is available for the Mac OS X and Windows platform and various downloads can be made via this page are being found. In addition to support for Yahoo Contextual Searching, some bugs have been fixed, among other things. The full changelog looks like this:

New Features

• Yahoo Contextual Searching (part of Y!Q)
  If you select text, either a single word or phrase within a PDF, and right click with the mouse, then you are presented with menu item that allows you to use the Yahoo Contextual (Y!Q) Search Engine. For longer phrases especially, this returns better results than with a regular search. For more information on how Y!Q works, please vis it the Yahoo website.
• Preserving User Preferences when Upgrading (Windows only)
  When upgrading to Adobe Reader 7.0.8, the previous user preferences from Adobe Reader 7.0.7 will be preserved. Please note that the “Display PDF in browser” preference is not saved. Also note, preserving user preferences does not work with Windows NT .

Important bug fixes

• Forms: Opening and closing certain forms can lead to a memory leak
• Fixes to address various Reader crashes.
• Security: several security bug fixes have been made, including one considered critical. For more information about the Adobe Severity Rating System, see the Adobe website.

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