Adobe Acrobat

Aerospace

Federal Aviation Administration

The FAA relies on Acrobat and Adobe FrameMaker® software to keep critical information up-to-the-minute and readily available for 2,400 safety inspectors who work around the clock. (PDF: 185k)

Lockheed Martin

This aerospace firm relies heavily on Acrobat and Acrobat Capture® software for the creation and handling of corporate documents on a global scale — everything from PDF-based documentation to online collaborative reviews, electronic forms, and web page capture. (PDF: 476k)

AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction)

Association of Highway, Canal, and Port Engineers

Highway engineers leverage digital approval processes using Adobe Acrobat. (PDF: 251k)

Catalonian Association of Architects (COAC)

The COAC adopted Adobe Acrobat software and an Adobe PDF workflow to automate its project approval processes and deliver electronic, digitally signed project documents. (PDF: 588k)

Dell Inc.

Dell increases quality and speeds the publication of millions of pages of documentation with Adobe software. (PDF: 812k)

Good Fulton & Farrell

Innovative architecture firm keeps projects on track and on budget using Adobe solutions for streamlined design and collaboration. (PDF: 1.9M)

Holland Railconsult

Leading Dutch engineering firm improves information sharing, collaboration, and archiving using Adobe Acrobat and Adobe PDF. (PDF: 1.2M)

John TeSelle Architecture

This architectural design firm improves client services and reduces costs with rapid, reliable project collaboration using Acrobat and Adobe PDF. (PDF: 895k)

Land Title Branch

A government office streamlines the processing of land title transactions using an electronic document solution based on Acrobat and Adobe PDF forms. (PDF: 176k)

Mountford Pigott Partnership

A leading architectural practice leverages Acrobat and Adobe PDF for efficient, reliable delivery and review of architectural drawings and related project documents. (PDF: 890k)

Orange County Planning and Development Services

A Southern California county streamlines its building-permit process by using Acrobat to create forms that can be digitally signed and centrally stored. (PDF : 1.0M)

Palomar Energy Project

A chief building official adopts Adobe Acrobat and Adobe PDF to accelerate review and approval of more than 30,000 design documents. (PDF : 416k) Watch the movie (SWF 10.3MB/3:20 min).

Perkins Eastman

International architecture and design firms lays foundation for fast, efficient collaboration using Adobe Acrobat Professional software and Adobe PDF. (PDF: 957k)

U.S. Green Building Council

Leading green building coalition cuts LEED application submission time by 50% using Adobe software to automate application processing. (PDF: 2.1M)

Windsor-Essex County Housing Corporation

The public housing corporation reduces administrative time and costs using Adobe Acrobat software. (PDF: 162k)

Creative pro

1185 Design

Leading design firm improves collaboration and streamlines document review and printing with Adobe Acrobat Professional software and Adobe PDF. (PDF: 614k)

Applied Graphics Technologies

AGT turns to Adobe Acrobat and Adobe PDF to speed review and localization of packaging and collateral materials for Microsoft. (PDF: 96k)

BC Pictures

Interactive e-brochures in Adobe PDF enable businesses to reach customers with content-rich collateral optimized for onscreen viewing. (PDF: 828k)

BD Fox

This advertising firm saved tens of thousands of dollars and increased the speed of review cycles by up to 50 percent using an online collaboration system based on Adobe Acrobat. (PDF: 205k)

Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

The award-winning advertising agency leverages Adobe Acrobat in the enterprise to enhance collaboration among staff and clients. (PDF: 913k)

Menfond

Hong Kong-based Menfond plays a formidable role in the local and regional digital visual effects industry using Adobe products. (PDF: 958k)

Vertis

This advertising production firm uses Adobe Acrobat and Adobe PDF to reduce review cycles and cut production costs for its clients. (PDF: 81k)

Education

Bedford High School

The adoption and combination of advanced software, together with excellent teaching, has led Bedford High School to achieve results beyond expectations. (PDF: 67k)

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Choosing Adobe Acrobat for campus-wide electronic document management saves the Chinese University of Hong Kong 90% in production and printing costs. (PDF: 233k)

Kilbaha Multimedia Publishing

Kilbaha's Adobe PDF based multimedia educational packages simplify fractions, decimals, and factorization for thousands of schoolchildren worldwide. (PDF: 524k)

Loma Linda University

This university improves student services, and reduces administrative time and costs using Acrobat software and Adobe PDF. (PDF: 1.5M)

The Wharton School — University of Pennsylvania

A leading business school distributes applications, publications, course catalogs, class materials, and faculty research over the Internet. The entire Wharton community (faculty, students, administration, and alumni) relies on Acrobat and Adobe PDF to share information. (PDF: 241k)

Financial services

AMP Financial Services

This leading regional wealth management company makes extensive use of Adobe Acrobat® software and Adobe PDF to produce and distribute forms, improving customer service and reducing costs.

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Bloomberg Australia

This financial services company relies on Acrobat and Acrobat Capture to deliver up-to-the-minute corporate news to professional investors worldwide. (PDF : 365k)

CaliforniaChoice

CaliforniaChoice boosts customer service and efficiencies with an online customer quote publishing system using Adobe Acrobat, Adobe FrameMaker, and Miramo software. (PDF: 171k)

CCEWeb

International trade transactions are streamlined by replacing mountains of paper forms with automated document processing and authentication. (PDF: 418k)

Insurance Services Office

ISO annually distributes more than 400 million pages of forms, rate tables, and other documents to insurers and regulators. The company slashed costs and boosted customer service by posting its forms on the web. (PDF: 162k)

Lawrence Johnson & Associates

A leading pension administration firm uses Adobe Acrobat software and Adobe PDF to reduce costs and paperwork, and to accelerate the delivery of value-added services to its customers. (PDF: 357k)

Moody's

This financial services company cuts the time needed to prepare 1,000-page publications from three weeks to two days using Adobe FrameMaker and Adobe Acrobat software. (PDF: 512k)

Pacific Life

The financial services provider cuts its fulfillment time for annuities to 24 hours with VALET, a system based on delivery and submission of forms in Adobe PDF. (PDF: 926k)

SAFECO Corporation

SAFECO Corporation saves nearly US$1 million in printing and distribution costs using Adobe Acrobat and Adobe PDF. (PDF: 279k)

Texas National Bank

A community bank cuts costs, speeds loan approvals, and wins customers by posting forms on the web as Adobe PDF files. (PDF: 31k)

Tokyo Stock Exchange

One of the world's major stock exchanges uses Acrobat and Adobe PDF to provide instant universal access to financial information on all listed companies. (PDF: 371k)

Universal Pensions

A leading provider of retirement plan services speeds application processing with Acrobat, e-signatures, and Adobe PDF. (PDF : 348k)

Government

California Department of General Services

Online forms processing with Adobe Acrobat and Adobe PDF saves this huge state government agency millions of dollars in administrative costs. (PDF: 126k)

Federal Aviation Administration

The FAA relies on Acrobat and FrameMaker to keep critical information up-to-the-minute and readily available for 2,400 safety inspectors who work around the clock. (PDF: 185k)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The United Nations FAO's goal is to eradicate hunger. One of the ways they help remote areas increase agricultural efficiency is through improved information distribution, using Adobe Acrobat. (PDF: 577k)

Hillsborough County, Florida

The county creates searchable electronic agendas and archives, including background documents, with Acrobat, Adobe PDF, and DocMaestro DocDepot. (PDF: 421k)

Internal Revenue Service

The IRS saves itself and taxpayers millions of dollars by making all tax forms freely accessible on its web site as PDF files. (PDF : 137k)

Lambeth Borough Council

From planning maps to meeting notes, London's Lambeth Borough Council is serving its citizens with online documents, thanks to Adobe Acrobat. (PDF: 1.1M)

National Assembly of the Republic of Korea

The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea provides real-time services on the web for various documents with an Adobe PDF solution. (PDF: 554k)

National Association of Insurance Commissioners

State regulators can now approve insurance filings in weeks instead of months, thanks to an electronic submissions process based on Acrobat and Lotus Notes. (PDF: 68k)

Orange County and Santa Clara County, California

These counties speed up budget development process with a database publishing solution based on FrameMaker, Acrobat, and PatternStream software from Finite Matters Ltd. (PDF: 479k)

Oregon Department of Transportation

This transportation agency boosts the quality and quantity of report data available to employees and the public while reducing costs by tens of thousands of dollars with Adobe Acrobat and Adobe PDF. (PDF: 583k)

Public Record Office of Victoria

An Australian public record agency adopts PDF as the standard format for long-term, reliable document archiving. (PDF: 238k)

Southeast Local Development Corporation

City and county governments adopt easy-to-use Adobe Acrobat software to boost efficiencies and enhance constituent services. (PDF: 864k)

City of Tecumseh, Michigan

This city government saves tens of thousands of dollars annually by distributing information electronically in Adobe PDF files instead of on paper. (PDF: 349k)

Transportation Department at Birmingham City Council

This agency is making use of Acrobat's web Capture facility to evaluate, capture, and internally distribute PDF versions of a variety of web pages, saving staff time on web searches and delivering pertinent information more quickly. (PDF: 228k)

U.S. Bankruptcy Court

Thanks to Acrobat and Acrobat Capture, attorneys, judges, and the public can access current case information quickly and easily via this court's website, while the court reduces its paper storage facilities costs. (PDF: 188k)

United States Federal Courts

The Federal Judiciary improves accessibility of court documents and lowers filing costs by adopting PDF and Acrobat Capture. (PDF: 349k)

U.S. Food and Drug Administration — Pharmaceuticals

At the FDA, new drug applications for everything from life-saving medications to basic over-the-counter remedies are being reviewed more quickly and efficiently, thanks to Adobe Acrobat and PDF. (PDF: 68k)

U.S. Food and Drug Administration — Biologics

FDA/CBER moves to electronic document submission to streamline review and processing of biologics research information. (PDF: 144k)