The folks at Adobe told me that the export functionality of Acrobat X has been vastly improved. I can vouch for the export to Word being improved. I recently tried to export a text based PDF that had been filed in federal court, with the goal of copying some of the text to use as sticky notes. I wasn't able to do it with Acrobat 9 because of some issue with font compatibility. I opened up Acrobat X and gave it a try, and it converted the 22 page document in less than 10 seconds.
Obviously, this is only one data point. But it's an encouraging sign that Adobe is right about the export functions being improved, at least as far as exporting to Microsoft Word. The Excel functionality is supposed to be improved as well, and I hope to have a chance to test that soon too.
The new Acrobat is supposed to be available within a month for those of you that are interested in upgrading.
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