BEIJING, Jun. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Adobe Systems on Monday joined the fight in the online office world with the launch of the Acrobat.com, which allows people to create, store and share documents online, and hold web conferences, media reported.
Currently the Acrobat.com service exists only in trial, or beta, form; but anyone can sign up.
Those using the service get access to the Buzzword word processor that lets them create basic text documents. Document creators can store their files on the site and invite others to collaborate, read or comment.
The service will crash head-to-head with the likes of Google Docs, Microsoft Office Live, and Zoho Office.
The site was unveiled together with the company's launch of Acrobat 9, in which Flash video can be embedded. Users can include Flash-based videos when they create and share documents with the portable document format, commonly known as PDF.
"You can now send someone a presentation that speaks on its own all through a PDF," said Adobe spokesman Kevin M. Lynch.
Adobe is coming relatively late to the market for business document and file sharing on the web.
In October 2007 Microsoft set up a trial version of Office Live Workspace that lets people get at and share Word, Excel and Powerpoint files via the web. Google runs a similar system via its online Documents service.
(Agencies)
