Adobe Acrobat: It gets the job done

I use Acrobat Acrobat primarily to preflight client submitted PDF files for color separations, to create interactive forms, and to extract elements or pages for publication assembly. It's not a great tool for editing: the best way to edit a PDF is to make the changes in the original software that made it, be that Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop or whatever you've used to create the PDF, but for simple edits, such as changing a date, correcting a misspelled word, or deleting unwanted elements, it's sufficient. It's also valuable for setting up security when sending proofs to new clients, in order to prevent them from casually using proofs as artwork, and you can password protect features such as editing and printing resolution. Another nice feature which I find myself using a lot, is editing of scanned text; Adobe Acrobat works as good if not better in a lot of cases at converting scanned text to editable text than even some dedicated OCR software that I've used, and that can be a time saver.

I've never experienced compromise of my user data or account information due to a security breach at Adobe. The same can't be said for credit rating agencies.