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What is Adobe Acrobat?
Adobe Acrobat DC is the current version of the well-established document / PDF management solution, part of the Adobe Document Cloud (the other part being Adobe's eSign services based on technology acquired with EchoSign in 2011).
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What is Adobe Acrobat?
Documents are more than just a collection of information and proof. They are foundational to connecting people and ideas, pushing business forward. Adobe Acrobat helps to keep users connected to their teams while driving business forward – no matter where they are working.
Acrobat is a PDF and e-signature solution with users among Fortune 500 companies. Acrobat users can create, edit, convert, share, sign, and combine documents from the Adobe platform. It provides for digital experiences that enable team to collaborate and work from any device, anytime, anywhere. Liquid Mode in Acrobat also enables users to view PDFs on small screens without the need to pinch and zoom.
In partnership with Microsoft, Adobe aims to reimagine how work gets done in a modern, secure, and connected hybrid workplace. Acrobat solutions are designed to seamlessly integrate with any preferred Microsoft apps so that users save time by creating, editing, sharing, and signing right from Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, and more. It also features smart integrations with Google, Box, and other daily use apps.
Acrobat provides access to file protection features to protect documents from being copied, changed, or printed – for added peace of mind. Acrobat helps organizations comply with security standards and regulatory requirements such as GLBA and FERPA. It also meets ISO 32000 standards for electronic document exchange, including special-purpose standards such as PDF/A for archiving, PDF/E for engineering, and PDF/X for printing.
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Adobe Acrobat DC is built for the cloud-connected, multi-device world. It streamlines reviews and feedback with a new review service, and users can edit PDFs on tablets with a touch of the finger, or send documents for Signature.
How to make changes to PDFs and send them out to get e-signed in Acrobat Pro.
Password-protected PDFs to keep formatting locked and sensitive info more secure.
Sending PDFs for review, gathering comments in one place, and responding in real time with Acrobat Pro.
Adobe Acrobat Integrations
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Google Drive
- Box
- Dropbox
- Microsoft OneDrive
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Adobe Acrobat Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Languages | Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukranian |
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Adobe Acrobat DC is the current version of the well-established document / PDF management solution, part of the Adobe Document Cloud (the other part being Adobe's eSign services based on technology acquired with EchoSign in 2011).
Adobe Acrobat starts at $12.99.
Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Foxit PDF Editor (FoxitPhantom) are common alternatives for Adobe Acrobat.
Reviewers rate Ease of integration highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Adobe Acrobat are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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January 16, 2024
A Must for Any Business.
We use Adobe Acrobat in our creative team in many ways, primarily for sending project proofs to our clients. We also use Acrobat to create forms and proposals, convert file formats, and send high-resolution PDFs to suppliers. Adobe Acrobat is an integral part of our business within all our divisions.
- Reviewing high-resolution PDFs for print production.
- Creating and customizing forms.
- Exporting PDFs to different file formats.
- Took sometime to figure out how to customize my toolbar.
January 16, 2024
Trustworthy product for digital signage!
I use Adobe Acrobat primarily with my business to send and receive documents for signatures with my clients and vendors. We definitely use it for other purposes but the signature portion is what we intended when we budgeted for this.
- Easy to understand- the program has a very intuitive layout that is great for people who doesn't use the product very much
- Includes all features you might need. There are many features I didn't even think we would need that they have included.
- They have a very recognizable name so my clients feel they can trust what they are being asked to open/sign since the Adobe name is next to it.
- It's a heavy program. This means a lot of RAM is utilized when doing something even pretty small just by running the program
- The digital signature portion is a little tricky to understand. There is not a lot of documentation around securing and saving the multiple digital signatures you're able to create.
January 16, 2024
Adobe Acrobat
We use Adobe Acrobat to create manuals, copies of invoices and orders, as well as extracting and higlighting parts of manuals or specifications and How-To's as a means of helping customers. We also use it to create forms and FAQ's for our products which we then publish on our Website.
- Creation of Manuals
- Creation of FAQ's
- Extraction of specific pages from existing manuals or documents
- simplifyng the creation of manuals
- better calculation tools for creation of Templates
- more fields available in the creation of Templates
January 16, 2024
Easy to Use with Great Features!
We use Adobe Acrobat to create forms, letters, price sheets, and brochures. The ability to add pictures to forms, request signatures on documents, and sign documents sent to us is appreciated. Prior to using Adobe, we had other software that was not as easy to navigate, and it did not always allow us to create what was needed. We also were not able to create the same fillable forms that we can with Adobe. Some customers did not have the ability to complete a form sent in a Microsoft Word or Excel file. Adobe has been a great tool.
- Creating forms
- Signing documents
- Adding photos to documents
- creating price pages and brochures for our accounts
- Adding a checkbox or a radio button to a form can be challenging, because Adobe tries to add an additional box or button when you edit the size or click elsewhere on the document unless you back out of it.
January 16, 2024
Reading, editing and security everywhere.
We use it to read PDFs as well as create and edit documents. We are a telecommunications company, where we prepare many documents, projects, records and this helps us a lot.
- Creation of documents for records.
- Editing documents, such as forms.
- Ease and practicality in use.
- Given my needs and use, I have nothing to point out as an improvement, as it works well in my case.
January 16, 2024
The gold standard for secure or high-quality documents.
We use it to create secure files for review, to create and annotate creative proofs for review, and to create non-editable and sharable forms of presentations. It's the gold standard for secure documents as well as for creative documents, which is unusual—but it works really well and always has, in my opinion.
- Creates signable and secure documents
- Creates non-editable, high-quality digital files
- Creates output files for high quality printing
- Doesn't have the best or easiest interface for adding comments
- Would like to see the ability to review / add comments
- Don't like that I have to be online / signed in with Creative Suite to view PDFs—adding that was a miss for me.
January 16, 2024
Adobe Acrobat leads the competition
We use Adobe Acrobat for a multitude of purposes. Low Res proofs/visuals for approval for client departments. Press-ready artwork with crop marks/bleed for printers to produce our flyers/brochures/business cards etc. We produce jpg files from Acrobat files for posting on social media channels. We also post PDFs on our websites/apps and other platforms as required. Acrobat allows a quick turnaround from the initial brief to the final artwork via the other software from the Adobe Creative Suite that we use to design our various projects. It is invaluable for editing as client departments will make notes on proofs and send them back for updates on their projects, it makes the workflow quick and easy. We use the product every single day on virtually everything we do and could not get by without it.
- Hi-Res Print ready artwork
- Low-Res files for editing purposes
- Enables jpg files to be made for posting to social media etc.
- Easy to upload to websites/apps
- I'd like to see compression improved when saving low-res files. Files are sometimes still to large to email to clients.
- Editing of files could be improved if Acrobat imported missing fonts.
- Make PDFs fully transferable to other Adobe products so fonts are outlined in certain ones.
January 16, 2024
Adobe Acrobat: The Perfect PDF Companion
Adobe Acrobat is used in various forms both professionally and personally. In my experience, I've found it to be the gold standard for working with or manipulating PDFs. Users have the ability to open, edit, dictate, insert signatures, create PDFs, combine files, add comments and markups, as well as so much more. I think my primary usage is for adding or inserting text onto a PDF, as well as signing off (using the built-in signature feature). I would rank Adobe Acrobat in the necessary category - it's a tool that I would not be able to live without given my daily workflow and tasks.
- PDF Creation and Editing - The platform excels in this regard above competitors. Users can also convert documents from various formats into PDFs and make modifications to existing PDFs.
- Security - Built-in features give users the ability to encrypt PDFs, set password protection, and control access permissions. This ensures confidentiality and integrity for sensitive files.
- Interactive Forms - Users can actually create forms with text fields, checkboxes, and drop-down menus. This is helpful for data collection.
- Collaboration - Users can also collaborate on documents giving multiple individuals the ability to review, edit or comment.
- OCR Features - I don't think most folks realize the poweful ability of this. Users can scan documents, open in Adobe, and now the documents are searchable or editable.
- Adobe Acrobat comes at a price. While it is likely the gold standard, it can be relatively expensive to obtain all of these pro features if you are an individual user or small business.
- Complexity - Due to all of the advanced features, it may be overwhelming for new users or individuals who do not need all of these features and capabilities.
- Mobile app has room for improvement.
- It would be nice to see some sort of Cloud integration feature with Google Drive or other platforms.
January 16, 2024
My Life and My Teams' Lives is Easier
The ability to share documents and have all edits and comments saved right in the document with information on who made them provides accountability and streamlined communication.
- Creating fields
- Electronic Signature
- Editor Solution
- Difficulty working with HP printing software.
January 16, 2024
Adobe Acrobat Great For All Your PDF Needs!
We use Acrobat on a daily basis. We prepare a lot of reports in word processing programs that are in turn saved as PDFs in Acrobat to lock down the information. These reports are our end product, as we are a service company, so Acrobat is integril in running our business.
- Preserving information
- Signing documents
- Providing security for confidential documents
- As we have some very large files, opening and editing these PDFs can be slow and unweildy.
- The Fill & Sign tool does not function as well as DocuSign nor is it as easy to use.
- The Fill & Sign tool sometimes creates error in a document, making it hard for our clients to use.
January 16, 2024
Makes global marketing teams' work so much easier
We use Adobe Acrobat for all of our PDF and design collateral work. Adobe Acrobat makes it extremely helpful for our creative design and product marketing/local marketing teams to design new content and collateral, commenting with amends and managing files through review stages with multiple stakeholders in different timezones. Adobe Acrobat is very useful for version control and ensuring we can feed in multiple levels of feedback and save lengthy emails or slacks with back and forth descriptions of what needs amending. Much easier and faster to mark up in file.
- Allows design file comment mark-up
- Helps teams manage version control with online files
- Allows for multiple stakeholders to feed in on assets
- Helps do easy signature adding to contracts/review contracts quickly
- Find the recent files hard to navigate
- Prompt to save downloaded files in new folders
January 16, 2024
Adobe Acrobat: Great for Feedback and Review Process
We use Adobe Acrobat for various PDF files and presentations to share with clients, such as SOWs/estimates and creative deliverable presentations. We also use Adobe Acrobat as a way to sync feedback and changes both for the internal team and clients. It allows us to streamline and track changes across multiple groups of people and versions.
- PDF reviewing: edits, comments and other feedback
- Ability to rearrange pages in a file easily
- Signatures
- We've found that some people struggle with its editing features because they are only available to others with Adobe Acrobat PRO. That means we constantly have to work in different non-PDF versions instead of one streamlined document.
January 16, 2024
Adobe Acrobat Review
We use Adobe Acrobat in multiple departments across the company. Acrobat allows us to share files easily as well as capture signatures for important documents.
- Connection/sharing through cloud for easy access
- Capturing signatures for any document
- Converting other Adobe files (word, excel) into PDFs
- I have not come across any issues, functionality is good for the extent of my use
January 16, 2024
Don't know what I'd do without Adobe Acrobat!
In a post-covid office environment, we've switched to emailing PDFs of letters that we used to send by snail mail. In my 15+ years of using Adobe Acrobat it has gotten way more "intelligent" and I love that PDF's are usually searchable or can easily be made searchable. I found a great plug-in that allows customized naming for each document when you split a big PDF (like mail merged letters) into individual pages. This has saved me so much time and eliminated the potential for error when naming documents manually.
- Optimized Character Recognition
- User Friendly Toolbar
- Plug-in options
- Merging other file types int a PDF
- I wish there was a quick fix for when OCR turns lowercase "L" into "1" and other such similar conversions.
- The plug-in I use for naming documents when splitting a PDF is great, but it should really be a built-in feature of Adobe Acrobat.
We use Adobe Acrobat every day to read, edit and send pdfs. In my department, we export from InDesign into PDFs to send docs to others in the organization to be proofed/edited and then we use those finalized documents to send pdfs to clients and others outside of the organization. The program allows you to easily edit and rearrange PDF files. There's also a great option to leave comments, tagging the person whose feedback you are looking to get. I highly recommend this product.
- Easy to use tools
- Prepare, organize, and edit PDF files
- Simplifies collaboration
- Creates professional finalized documents
- Sometimes the different versions get mixed up on the computer so when I'm trying to use the big, powerful version my doc opens in the reader which doesn't have the same functionality.
- Sometimes I can't find the bookmarks bar and have to search for it... it'd be nice if you could customize the toolbars so that was always visible... oh my goodness --- i just went looking for it and figured out how to customize the toolbar!!! Cool!
- Sometimes it'd be helpful to be able to adjust the boxes that come in when you try to edit the text.
January 16, 2024
Adobe Acrobat is a must have for my everyday work!
I am a gift officer for a charitable organization and use Adobe Acrobat every day when I work. It is an essential program that allows me to support my stakeholders in a professional manner. Whether it is for issuing compliant charitable tax receipts, updating pledge agreements etc. without having to go back to the source file or compiling document packages for our Board of Directors, it allows me to function smoothly and quickly throughout my day.
- Combining files
- Creating forms
- Recognizing scanned documents
- Add a replace all option
January 16, 2024
Adobe Acrobat is a go to marketing product
Our department utilizes Adobe Acrobat for advertising flyers, social media posts and video editing. We also utilize Adobe Acrobat to edit PDF files. Adobe Acrobat helps with making marketing visuals more appealing. It is our go to way to edit and produce videos for our social media outlets. We have other programs, but Adobe Acrobat is our main source.
- Editing
- Formatting
- Marketing
- Space usage
- Shareability
- Editing after file completed
January 16, 2024
Adobe Acrobat Software
We use Adobe Acrobat for processing invoices to PDF. We use Adobe Acrobat to document/save files electronically. We are able to edit PDF's to add notes and address markups before finalizing documents. We are paperless and Adobe Acrobat allows us to add notes and comments so that we can track history on statements.
- The tracking of notes and edits makes it easy to see who/what was changed.
- We are able add comments and sign documents electronically.
- We can add images and drawings to documents before sending to clients.
- Editing has changed and is not as user friendly.
- Combing documents be moving pages between two files does not always work.
- Pricing could be better for Adobe Sign so that we do not have to use multiple platforms.
January 16, 2024
Adobe Acrobat's great... but I prefer Kofax
We use Adobe Acrobat as strictly a PDF viewer and have another program (Kofax) for full OCR and document editing. I do have colleagues who use it as their primary PDF management program and enjoy its features. We do not impose strict or uniform program usage in our business for PDF viewers but Adobe Acrobat is on every computer.
- Industry leader
- Standard features and formatting
- Full support
- Cost - can fully purchase Kofax and achieve 80-90% of functionality
- Intuitive help and support
- Version control and highlight of changes
January 16, 2024
Adobe Acrobat - The Gold Standard
Adobe Acrobat is the gold standard in creating, viewing and editing pdfs, and now with verified signature capabilities, it really does set the standard. Utilizing it as the default pdf/document viewer allows you to open nearly any standard document across the internet or as e-mail attachments. The ability to convert pdfs into searchable and editable text is also very worthwhile.
- Opens standard pdfs
- Allows editing and searching of pdfs
- Verified signature capability
- Converting to editable text does not always work extremely well
- The redaction tool could use an update
- Sometimes it is ab it slow to load larger items
January 16, 2024
100% Recommend This Product
We use Adobe Acrobat to invoice our clients, to create signable contracts for potential customers, and to protect documents with sensitive information. We utilize the cloud based storage for important documents and for sending contracts for signatures. Adobe Acrobat is a very large part of our everyday work flows and is very beneficial.
- Allows for safe storage
- Electronic signature
- Ability to redact info
- It can be laggy
- Wish it had the ability to notarize electronically
January 16, 2024
Adobe Acrobat - A Lifesaver!
We use Adobe Acrobat, from the print to PDF feature, to editing and commenting on PDFs. I love the ease of the program and how user friendly it is. Simple features like the date received stamp also are super useful in this office.
- User friendly.
- Multiple capabilites.
- Editing is most of the time seamless.
- Deleting comments or notes.
- New version has been freezing a lot.
- Ways to combine things onto one page easier.
January 16, 2024
Easy usable tool that supports my day to day work life
To adjust documents, add Pages, sign documents, send out presentations in a compressed way.
- Easy usage
- No major design changes over the years
- No problems in functionality
- Adding signature could be more easy
- Deleting pages I struggle sometimes
- The function to make a document smaller is difficult to find
January 15, 2024
Love the Easy-to-use Features
I use Adobe Acrobat mainly for pdf editing and creation. I find it to be the simplest way to update text, add/delete pages, and combine pdf documents. <br>I also use it quite extensively to add security to pdf documents to limit access to those who have authorization to view the document.
- Add/Delete pages
- Add Security (Password, etc)
- Create Fillable pdf
- The text editing function is a little clunky
- I wish it was easier to select and move objects
January 14, 2024
Must have office program for over a decade
Our company presentations, both written and visual are core to our business. Adobe Acrobat has been a standard office tool for over a decade. We use it to create presentations that are sent to clients. We use the organize pages and edit functions for both business and client reports. The best thing about Adobe Acrobat is; it gives us peace of mind. When we send a document, we know that it will appear the same way on the sendee's computer as it does on ours.
- Organize pages for presentatio
- Replaces images in documents
- Allows interchange with other programs like Microsoft Word
- It is easy to edit text
- Very useful comment feature to give feedback on reviewed documents
- The layout of the tools could be improved
- When combining files it often changes the order of the items, such as monthly reports jumbled so July comes before April
- When I receive pdfs from clients sometimes my virus program has to remove risky code