An updated version of Adobe’s Acrobat software will be unveiled today, adding new capabilities including a means for staff to join ad-hoc online meetings. Acrobat 8, due in October, offers better tools for shared reviews and real-time collaboration. It introduces an updated PDF format to package multiple documents into one file; and the free-to-download Adobe Reader can fill out PDF forms on-screen and post the results to a specified email address. Acrobat 8 Professional includes a redaction tool to remove sensitive information, preventing accidental disclosure in PDF files. Users can search long documents for specific keywords. Simply highlighting in black does not remove text from documents – it can still be copied, said Lori DeFurio of Adobe’s Knowledge Worker Solutions group. Many organisations, including the US Justice Department, have unwittingly leaked sensitive data in the past after botched attempts to censor PDFs. Acrobat 8 also lets users combine portions of files into a single PDF. Source files can be Word documents, spreadsheets, web pages, or emails. However, sensitive documents are often digitally signed, and merging them would invalidate the signature. Acrobat 8 enables multiple PDFs to be stuffed into a single wrapper file. I’m not sure if this message should make me happy, because I sort of dislike Acrobat - the loading time is terrible, and the function of Adobe Reader are very limited. Better to make it free 
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