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Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.1.0 Release Notes

Summary

The Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.1.0 update addresses a number of customer issues and security vulnerabilities.

Product(s):
Adobe Reader 7.1.0
Adobe Acrobat 7.1.0 Professional
Adobe Acrobat 7.1.0 Standard
Adobe Acrobat 3D 7.1.0

Requirements:

Adobe Reader 7.1.0 (Windows)
Intel Pentium or equivalent processor
Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home Edition (Service Pack 2); Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4); Windows Tablet PC Edition; Windows 2003 Server
128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)
Up to 90MB of available hard-disk space
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, 6 or 7, Firefox 1.0, 1.5 or 2, Mozilla 1.7, Netscape 7.1 or 8.0

Adobe Reader 7.1.0 (Macintosh)
PowerPC G3, G4, G5 or Intel processor
Mac OS X v10.2.8, 10.3.9, 10.4.3 to 10.4.11
128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)
110MB of available hard-disk space
Safari 1.2.2 browser supported for Mac OS X 10.3 or higher, Safari 2.0.2

Languages:

Adobe Reader 7.1.0
English, French, German, Japanese, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and Korean

Security:

For a full listing and greater detail of security updates covered in this release, please see the updated Adobe Security Bulletin (APSB08-13).

Distribution:

Update available via the Adobe Automated Update system
Incremental patch installer for Acrobat 7.1.0 products on Macintosh via manual download from Adobe support
Cumulative patch installer for Acrobat 7.1.0 products on Windows via manual download from Adobe support (Note: This will update any prior 7.x version and only require one reboot at the end)
Full Reader 7.1.0 installers for Macintosh and Windows, posted on the Adobe Reader Download page.

Release date:
May 6, 2008

Resolved Issues

1427338 Digital ID in Windows CAPI removal: This resolved issue corrects the behavior of not allowing signature using digital ID recently deleted from Windows CAPI.
Root: fixes issue discovered in versions 7.0.8 and 7.0.9.

1434340 xmldata.applyXpath: When accented characters were present in XML data, the call to xmldata.applyXpath failed. This issue had been resolved.
Root: fixes issue discovered in versions 7.0.8 and 7.0.9.

1455345 Using line break characters within a string of text to be assigned to a field: Issues dealing with \n and \r in text fields have been resolved. Also resolves bug: 1461215.
Root: fixes an issue reported in versions 7.0.7, 7.0.8 and 7.1.0.

1499563 Handling multiple security tokens during one session for digital signatures: In previous versions it was not possible to allow multiple digital signatures with different security tokens during one session on the same machine due to some caching issues in Windows. This behavior has been rectified.
Root: fixes an issue reported in versions 7.0.9.

1509445 PCL printing issues with non-Unicode characters in Chinese (Taiwan): If an end-user selected Chinese (Taiwan) for non-Unicode support and printed to a PCL printer using a PCL driver, some characters would show up as œ?. This issue has been resolved.
Root: fixes an issue reported in 7.0.9.

1544848 Secondary signature does not submit: Under some circumstances, with 7.0.9 in the browser, the second signature on forms would not submit under Adobe LiveCycle Form Manager 7.2.2. This issue has been resolved.
Root: fixes an issue reported in 7.0.9.

1614211 œSearch and Reuse issue with XML Form: In Adobe LiveCycle Workspace, the œSearch and Reuse process can create new forms for later usage. A case was discovered with XML Form, which would not re-open properly. This has been rectified in 7.1.0.
Root: fixes an issue discovered in 7.0.9.

1642729 Improved PDF conversion for Microsoft Word documents: Certain Microsoft Word documents were found not to convert with Acrobat 7.0.8 and 7.0.9. This has been fixed in 7.1.0.
Root: fixes an issue found in versions 7.0.8 and 7.0.9.

1642742 Emailing PDF from web capture process fails to create attachment: With Acrobat, end-users can choose to create PDFs automatically from a web page. On Windows, it was discovered that if choosing to email the PDF as part of the creation process was chosen, the resulting PDF would not be automatically included as an attachment in the email. This has been fixed in 7.1.0.
Root: fixes an issue found in versions 7.0.8 and 7.0.9.

1642752 Large spool file created in PCL print queue: Certain files created large spool files in PCL print workflows. This has been resolved. This also fixes similar issue found in 1642755.
Root: fixes an issue in previous versions 7, not present in earlier versions.

1644947 Policy protected files with dynamic watermark performance improvement: Version 7.1.0 implements a fix that substantially improves the performance of PDFs that have been protected by Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management utilizing dynamic watermarks.
Root: fixes an issue found in previous versions of 7.

1645574 Performance improvement creating PDF from Microsoft Word documents stored on NetApp FAST 6070: Version 7.1.0 provides performance enhancements to issues found with workflows involving Microsoft Word documents stored on NetApp FAST 6070 appliances.
Root: fixes an issue reported in version 7.0.7.

1645579 Performance improvement in start-up/shutdown of Microsoft Word 2003: Version 7.0.9 improves performance at start-up/shutdown of Microsoft Word 2003 with Acrobat installed.
Root: fixes an issue reported in version 7.0.7.

1653341 Hyperlink issues in PDF created from Microsoft Power Point files: Certain Microsoft Power Point files, which contained hyperlinks, were not being converted properly in previous versions. Version 7.1.0 rectifies this issue.
Root: fixes issue found in Versions 7.0.8 and 7.0.9.

1619714 Trouble opening Microsoft Word documents over VPN when Acrobat installed: An issue was reported that would not allow Microsoft Word documents to be opened on a server when connected via VPN (virtual private network) with Acrobat installed. This has been rectified in 7.1.0.
Root: fixes an issue found in 7.0.9.

1676004 PDF not created from Microsoft Word when œEnable accessibility and Reflow with PDF Tags not selected: Certain Microsoft Word documents would not convert to PDF if the option œEnable accessibility and Reflow with PDF Tags was selected. This has been fixed.
Root: fixes an issue found in versions 7.0.8 and 7.0.9.