Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.2 Release Notes

Release date: January 12, 2010

The Adobe® Reader® and Acrobat® 8.2 release is a quarterly security update—a fully encompassing update which includes functional improvements as requested by customers and security updates encountered during the previous quarterly period. This release addresses a number of customer workflow issues, security vulnerabilities, and provides more stability.

Adobe recommends that you install the latest applicable updates:

• Adobe Reader 8.2

• Adobe Acrobat 8.2 Professional

• Adobe Acrobat 8.2 Standard

• Adobe Acrobat 3D 8.2

DISTRIBUTION METHODS

Note: This update can be applied to Adobe Acrobat version 8.1.7 on Windows & Macintosh. Full Adobe Reader installers are available on Reader download center

• Update via the automatic product update system (Windows and Macintosh Only).

• Manually download the Incremental update for Adobe Acrobat 8.2 (Windows and Macintosh) from Adobe support.

• Download the full Adobe Reader installers via Reader Download Center.

• For more information regarding enterprise Administrative Install Point (AIP) installations, please click here .

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Adobe Reader 8.2 (Windows®)

• Intel® Pentium® III or equivalent processor

• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 4; Windows Server® 2003 (32-bit or 64-bit editions) with Service Pack 1; Windows XP® Professional, Home, Tablet PC(32-bit or 64-bit editions) with Service Pack 2 or 3(32-bit or 64-bit editions); or Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 or 2 (32-bit or 64-bit editions)

• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)

• 170MB of available hard-disk space

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0, Firefox 1.5 or 2.0, Mozilla 1.7, AOL 9

Adobe Reader 8.2 (Macintosh)

• PowerPC® G3, G4, G5 or Intel processor

• Mac OS X v10.4.11 - 10.5.5

• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)

• 170MB of available hard-disk space (additional space required for installation)

• Safari® (Shipping with supported OS)

Adobe Acrobat 8.2 Professional, Standard and 3D (Windows)

• Intel Pentium III processor or equivalent

• Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003 (32-bit or 64-bit editions) with Service Pack 1; Windows XP Professional, Home, Tablet PC with Service Pack 2 or 3(32-bit or 64-bit editions); or Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 or 2 (32-bit or 64-bit editions)

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0

• Professional: 860MB of available hard-disk space; cache for optional installation files (recommended) requires an additional 460MB of available hard-disk space

• Standard: 490MB of available hard-disk space; cache for optional installation files (recommended) requires an additional 280MB of hard-disk space

• 3D: 1.6 GB of available hard-disk space (include cache for optional installation files)

• 1,024x768 screen resolution

• Internet or phone connection required for product activation

Adobe Acrobat 8.2 Professional (Macintosh)

• PowerPC G3, G4, G5, or Intel processors

• Mac OS X v10.4.11- 10.5.5

• 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended)

• 1,060MB of available hard-disk space

• 1,024x768 screen resolution

• DVD-ROM drive

LANGUAGES

Adobe Reader 8.2 (Windows), Adobe Acrobat 8.2 Professional (Windows), Adobe Acrobat 8.2 Standard (Windows)

• English, French, German, Japanese, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean

Adobe Reader 8.2 (Macintosh), Adobe Acrobat 8.2 Professional (Macintosh)

• English, French, German, Japanese, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean

Adobe Acrobat 3D 8.2 (Windows)

• English, French, German, Japanese

SECURITY COMPONENTS

The features below are described on http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/security/Application+Security+Library.

Enhanced Security 

This release will ship with enhanced security on by default. Adobe recommends as a best practice that you keep enhanced security enabled. Enhanced security provides two tools designed to help you protect your environment: a set of default restrictions and a method to define trusted locations that should not be subject to those restrictions. In other words, you can either block dangerous actions altogether or else selectively permit them for locations and files you trust. For more information, please click here.

Privileged Locations Improvements

Windows users can automatically trust sites that they trust for Internet Explorer by checking Automatically trust sites from my Win OS security zones. In effect, those sites become privileged locations and are exempt from enhanced security restrictions.

Cross Domain Support

Cross domain logging can be enabled via the user interface.

The cross domain log can be opened, copied, and cleared via the user interface.

Cross domain policy files support all the mime types specified in the Cross Domain Policy File Specification.

Warning Message and Dialog Improvements

A non-intrusive Yellow Message Bar (YMB) that doesn’t block workflows replaces many of the modal dialogs.

Yelow Message Bar appears when content attempts to invoke potentially risky behavior such as cross domain access, JavaScript execution, data injection, and playing legacy multimedia types (non-Flash). If the associated feature is not locked down by an administrator, the Yellow Message Bar provides an Options button that offers the user to trust the document “once” or “always” for that feature. For more information, please click here.

Multimedia Security

Legacy multimedia support is disabled by default. For media types other than Flash, support must be manually enabled by assigning trust to the file containing the multimedia.

RESOLVED ISSUES

PDF Maker

2478561: Fixed an issue where PDFMaker was loading in Office 2010 with 9.x version of Acrobat.

Collaboration

2336579: Fixed an 8.1.5 issue where the Wizard for BBR creates an FDF file that has no values for "Collab.createAnnotStore()" when using a Network Folder.

Security

2463287: Fixed a 9.1.2 issues where an error encountered while signing: “The Windows Cryptographic Service Provider reported an error. Error code 2148073504” after a number of digital signal signatures have been produced successfully.

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