Item: Adobe Acrobat
Rating: 7
Author: Jennifer Blair

Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Acrobat

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I most often use it to review digital PDF documents that we design for our clients. Things like reports, ebooks, book covers, Infographics, case studies, and white papers. I sometimes use it to edit or sign documents, but less often now. I usually use DocuSign for document signing, and keep Adobe Acrobat for reviewing PDF assets that we deliver to clients.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Hyperlinked digital publications
Digital documents
Print publications

Cons

DocuSign documents
Easier live text editing
Faster ways to reorganize and split up documents

Return on Investment

Improves final file proofing
provides an easy way to send invoices by PDF
makes it easy to comment on design edits for pdf document projects.

Key Differentiators

Integration with Other Systems
Ease of Use

I'd say the single most important factor is using Adobe Acrobat alongside my design work for print publications and digital publications. It's necessary for reviewing the final assets and exporting designs for the printers. It works well among the other Adobe CC products as well, though I will say I find myself providing design feedback via Dropbox comments and circumventing Adobe Acrobat for design reviews.

Security

I have noticed a particular impact in this area. Perhaps it's because I'm not using the Adobe Acrobat for things like document signing and sending personal/private information. It's good that Adobe is investing in security and compliance standards and that does give me some assurance when I include PDF copies of things like invoices for clients.

Alternatives Considered

DocuSign, Dropbox and Adobe Illustrator CC

This isn't really a good comparison, but Adobe Acrobat is more of a program that works among all of these, and I'll keep using it as long as it's a part of Adobe CC. Otherwise, I see DocuSign as suitable for secure/private documents, and Dropbox file previews allows a pretty effortless system for commenting and collaboration, and Adobe Illustrator is suitable when I need to edit little things in a PDF.

Key Insights

Do you think Adobe Acrobat delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Adobe Acrobat's feature set?

Yes

Did Adobe Acrobat live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Adobe Acrobat go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Adobe Acrobat again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Adobe Illustrator CC, Figma, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PhotoShop, Affinity Designer

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe Acrobat is particularly well suite for reviewing designs for print publications. When I design a book cover or the interior of a book or magazine in InDesign, I always export a PDF and review the final file to assure how it will look like in print and for the printer. It's also excellent for long digital PDFs where you might wanted a hyperlinked table of contents and hyperlinks within the text.

Comments

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Ill keep using it as long as its part of Adobe CC