Abobe Acrobat 9 now with Flash

From TechCrunh:

"Acrobat 9—Now With Flash

At the same time Adobe is launching Acrobat.com, it is releasing Acrobat 9—a major upgrade to one of its anchor desktop apps. The big news here is that for the first time, Adobe’s PDF-creating desktop software will support Flash. So people can now create documents with embedded Flash movies from YouTube, or developers can design entire new skins for electronic documents using Adobe’s Flex framework—the same programming tool they use to create Web applications.

PDF documents made with Acrobat 9 also support collaboration among multiple authors and reviewers over the Internet, making them connected documents. Best of all, they no longer take forever to load. The next step is for Adobe to make it easy to turn any PDF into a Web page, and vice versa."

I don't know about turning a PDF into a webpage (though I can see maybe needing to replicate the formatting in a PDF document exactly for a webpage, so in that instance a PDF to HTML feature would be ideal) but what immediately comes to my mind is the ability to have more interactive artist portfolios. Instead of static images of your photographs or website designs, you can have a flash movie that is a slide show or screencast of a website, that you can send to someone. Sometimes you can best feature your work in a moving visual format instead of still images and Acrobat 9 will allow you to do so. PDF Portfolios in Acrobat 9 will package FLV and SWF content with the usual word processing files and more.

Acrobat 9 comes in three versions, set for release in the coming weeks: Standard at $299 or $99 to upgrade, Pro for $449 or $159 to upgrade, and Pro Extended for $699 or $229 to upgrade. Pro Extended also comes with Adobe Presenter, which plugs into Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 for adding interactivity to presentations.