Easily convert, edit, share, and sign PDF documents with the help of Adobe Acrobat DC
We utilize Adobe Acrobat [Reader DC] to review PDF documents and construction drawings. We also use it to create, fill out, and execute …
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What is Adobe Acrobat Reader?
Acrobat Reader is a PDF viewer and converter, available as a free download from Adobe. Users can view, sign, collaborate on and annotate PDF files, or edit and convert PDFs into file formats like Excel and Word.
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What is Adobe Acrobat Reader?
Acrobat Reader is a PDF viewer and converter, available as a free download from Adobe. Users can view, sign, collaborate on and annotate PDF files, or edit and convert PDFs into file formats like Excel and Word.
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ABBYY, headquartered in Moscow offers FineReader, a PDF editor that allows users to convert, edit, share, and collaborate on PDFs. FineReader also converts scanned documents into searchable PDF files.
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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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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August 16, 2021
Acrobat Reader DC - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
DaVita, a Fortune 200 company, uses Adobe Acrobat Reader DC across its enterprise. As a consultant to DaVita, I use this product on a daily basis to open and read PDF files. It is also used to reduce printing costs by printing documents to PDF files for electronic sharing instead of hard copy. I find it saves time when needing to send a document because I do not have to print a document, scan it, and then send it. It also enables me to send an essentially universal file format to others who may not have the applications needed to open other file formats, i.e., Visio drawings.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader DC will easily convert other file formats to PDF for general distribution. For example, if I need to send a Visio diagram to a person who does not have Visio software, I simply "print" the drawing to a PDF using Adobe Acrobat DC.
- Acrobat is a good tool for document collaboration. PDF files can be shared, edited, merged and signed all within the application.
- Visual presentation of PDF files is quite versatile. For example, if the initial display is too small for one's eyes, one can zoom out the display to make details more easily seen. Other options include pagination, thumbnails of pages, and so on. In short, it is very robust in offering display options.
- I'm not a fan of needing to connect to Adobe in order to work with PDF files. While Adobe claims its systems are secure, there is always a doubt in my mind about exposing documents with sensitive data in them to another potential source of vulnerabilities.
- The licensing for DC is not something I care for. I don't like the transition from buy it once and own it, to paying an annual licensing fee. Seriously, I really don't like that aspect of Adobe's approach to licensing their software.
- I have experienced sporadic issues with form field drop-down menus after resizing forms for display. This problem has been around for a while, and I have yet to see a solution for it. For example, I may have a drop-down with four options, but when I resize the display for the entire page, I may be able to see only one and a half options.
- If used properly, there is a potential for cost savings by avoiding the need to print hard copies. Files can be easily shared electronically.
- I prize Acrobat Reader's ability to convert file formats to PDF. For example, I create a lot of infrastructure diagrams using Visio, and not everyone in my IT world has Visio. Simple solution: open my Visio diagram and "print" it to a PDF file.
- Display options are important to me, and this is one area that Adobe Acrobat Reader DC shines. Make it bigger, smaller, single page, double page, scrolling, etc. Acrobat Reader handles them all, and does so admirably.
- I've mentioned a couple of times in this review how Adobe Acrobat can potentially save a considerable amount of money by reducing or eliminating the need to printing to paper. Many have no idea how much money is spent not only on paper and toner, but on the cost of the printers themselves - especially when there are fees for the number of pages printed. Print to PDF is a huge cost savings.
- On the other hand, in a very large enterprise the licensing of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC can become quite large in a hurry. If you have four or five people using the software, the cost can be easily justified. On the other hand, if you have 2,000 - 3,000+ seats using it, then licensing can become quite cost prohibitive -- annually.
I do a lot of work on a second job where I need to create and use forms in PDF format that contain a lot of JavaScript in the backend to make calculations based on values entered into form fields. If I am working on a PC or a MAC computer, these all work great for JavaScript execution. However, if I move the PDF form to an iPad or iPhone, the form field calculations do not execute. Enter Readdle's PDF Expert. Installation of this app enables me to use these PDF forms on both iPhone and iPad. Also, the editing capabilities (highlighting, entering comments, and so on) work more reliably and intuitively with Readdle PDF Expert than with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Because my fulltime gig as a consultant involves using PCs, all of my PDF work there is with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.
Users in our enterprise range from IT developers, QA analysts, Help Desk personnel, managers, nurses and other clinicians, and general business staff. In short, the entire spectrum of a health care organization spanning a couple of thousand facilities in the United States, and several hundred overseas. These people deal with medical reports, revenue management, program development and quality assurance, legal documentation, and general business correspondence.
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Our dedicated IT Help Desk and "Enterprise Command Center" support all of the enterprise's employees. These individuals have a special set of skills that that range from patience and excellent communications to troubleshooting, documentation, and knowledge base specializations.
- Printing electronically
- Document collaboration
- e-signing
- Working with interactive PDF forms
- Managing document workflows, particularly with IT "run books"
May 28, 2021
Great document reader
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is used across our whole organization for the purposes of allowing users to access/read pdf files from a variety of sources. Given that pdfs are so ubiquitous and are often the file type of choice by many information sources, Adobe Reader is a pretty commonly used application in the organization. In particular, technical industry standards, regulatory documentation, and other organizations that want to share documentation in a non-editable format are all examples of where Adobe Reader comes in handy.
- Cost-effective
- User friendly for basic functionality
- Commonly used
- Frequent updating required
- Not intuitive for anything more than basic functionality
- Sometimes suffers from random compatibility issues
- Opening and reading of pdf documents
- Basic annotation of non-editable documents
- Sharing of documentation in a non-editable form
- Generally, invaluable as the application is a free download
- Broad adoption of Acrobat Reader begins to lock you into use of other paid Adobe applications that can be costly
The application has overlapping functionality, but as part of an organization that leverages the rest of the Adobe family of applications, alternative applications suffer from compatibility issues and are not part of the same support network. Moreover, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is free and as such, there is no real reason to consider alternatives.
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Virtually every business function is represented including marketing
& sales, operations, manufacturing, engineering, research &
development, quality, regulatory, logistics, and administrative
functions.
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Our organization does not have any in-house personnel that specializes in supporting Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Support of this application is provided alongside with general IT support for productivity applications, operating systems, network security, computer hardware support, etc.
The skills of in-house personnel to support the application are basic - in the form of basic application management via application configuration, un-install/re-install, and general troubleshooting
- Sharing of "read-only" forms of documentation, especially outside the organization
- Creation and reading of scanned documents that are generated from hard copies
- Exporting documents from specialized graphics applications into a more ubiquitous file type
- Especially in a remote work environment, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC has been used at times as a stand in for "wet signatures"
- In combination with physical scanning, redaction of documents can be performed without worrying about leaving digital trails of the redacted content
- As part of the broader Adobe family of applications, Adobe Reader provides an application that virtually guarantees compatibility with documents created with those products
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- Price
- Product Features
- Prior Experience with the Product
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is a free application, which means there is very little cost to the organization aside from providing internal application support. The tool is also part of the Adobe family of applications, so in an organization that uses other Adobe products, the use of its free applications is a no-brainer
There isn't really much that would change. The use of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC in the organization makes a ton of sense given the fact that it is free to download, it is an Adobe product, which guarantees a great deal of compatibility regardless of how many other Adobe applications an organization uses, and it has a great deal of functionality when considered in a vacuum.
The one potential change in evaluation and selection would be to consider whether there are specialty applications that are used in the organization and consider how well they integrate or how compatible they are with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC did not require any organizational change management.
- Corruption of the install, requiring re-installation of the application