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Acrobat
Document exchange software from Adobe that allows documents to be displayed and printed the same on every computer. The Acrobat system created the Portable Document Format (PDF), which is widely used in commercial printing and on the Web. See PDF.
acrobat
an entertainer who performs acts that require skill, agility, and coordination, such as tumbling, swinging from a trapeze, or walking a tightrope

(text, product)Acrobat - A product from Adobe Systems, Inc., for manipulating documents stored in Portable Document Format. Acrobat provides a platform-independent means of creating, viewing, and printing documents.

Acropolis: the magazine of Acrobat publishing.


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Acrobates XIII and To Be Dempsey (a boxer) recall Michelangelo's Dying Slave.
Les Acrobates (1926) conjoins three overlaid drawings of men, in watercolor and pencil: one a Picassoesque neoclassical figure, the second a Matissean line drawing of a figure seen from behind, and the third a muscled athlete in a Tarzan loincloth holding a pose reminiscent of Zeus with his lightning bolts.
 
 
 
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