Adobe Acrobat 8 Beta 1 is available. Adobe Acrobat has done as much to move us in the direction of the paperless office, make electronic publishing easier, and ennable document transmission. In addition, the ability to annotate, collect data, and work with forms through Acrobat has evolved through the last several versions.
Acrobat Reader, which you need to read Acrobat documents, is free. Acrobat professional, which creates Acrobat documents, isn't free. In fact, it's quite expensive.
If all you need to do is to make your Microsoft Word report into a PDF, there are cheaper alternatives, such as ScanSoft PDF Converter or Nitro PDF or PrimoPDF.
As the article below says of these cheaper alternatives,
These PDF converters lack many of the features found in Acrobat 8 Professional, such as Web conferencing tie-ins and workflow capabilities, but they can capably create PDF documents.
