Adobe Reader offers:
Maximize your screen real estate. Reader has a completely redesigned interface, new tools, and a host of new options for viewing information more efficiently.
Access to an online, real-time meeting in seconds.
Reader is now integrated with Adobe Connect software, which enables users to instantly communicate and accelerate approvals with virtually anyone, anywhere, at any time.
Protection of your workflows and transactions.
Add more security to your documents, forms, and drawings with digital signatures. Leverage Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server and the new Adobe Online Services Document Center with Reader to enforce access rights at the document level.

Adobe PDF is the global standard for trusted distribution and viewing of information. Adobe Reader is the only free software to allow you to more securely collaborate using PDF documents. Create your own PDF files. Use Reader with Adobe Acrobat software or the Create Adobe PDF Online web-hosted service to confidently create professional-looking PDF documents that can be shared with friends, family, colleagues, partners, customers, and suppliers. Use Reader to help control confidential information, share files, control deployments, and simplify integration and hosting.

Features
Enhance interaction with PDF Portfolios.
PDF Portfolios provide easier navigation when you work with multiple PDF documents and other document types. Portfolios also enable you to work with a collection of materials such as drawings, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, and videos as a single file, which makes distribution, storage, retrieval, and collaboration easy for end users.

Consumer
Adobe® Reader® software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.

Enterprise
Deploy, maintain, and support Adobe Reader across your organization. Corporations, government agencies, and educational institutions can distribute Adobe Reader internally on an intranet site or local network.

OEM
Adobe Reader software is available for distribution through physical media: CD, DVD, or bundled with computers. Adobe Reader Enterprise Edition has been developed for easy deployment.

Developer
Interested in developing a plug-in for Adobe Reader? The freely distributed Adobe Reader is widely available; more than 500 million copies have been distributed worldwide since 1993. To build a Reader plug-in, you must first apply for an Integration Key License Agreement.

From Reader 9, you can go directly into Acrobat.com, an exciting new set of online services from Adobe, to perform common tasks, such as:
* Create up to five Adobe PDF files
* Share and store documents on the web
* Create and collaborate on a document in Adobe Buzzword®
* Easily share your screen using Adobe ConnectNow
You can also help colleagues, clients, and partners get on the same page at the same time with the ability to conavigate documents. Simply use Acrobat.com services to enable collaboration on a PDF file, and then distribute the PDF file and walk recipients through it in real time by controlling their page view.
As an added convenience, Acrobat.com leverages Adobe AIR™, so you can interact with Acrobat.com from your desktop as well. Acrobat.com on Adobe AIR is a small application that is included with your download of Adobe Reader 9.