Adobe Acrobat - Tried and True Portable Documentation for All
August 05, 2025

Adobe Acrobat - Tried and True Portable Documentation for All

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Acrobat

We use Adobe Acrobat for thousands of business documents, job aids, how-to-guides, reference materials, forms, and a lot more. It provides a way to standardize our documents into one format in the most accessible way possible. This allows familiarity for our customers, and it also works with all modern browsers now, without the need for users to download stand-alone applications.

Pros

  • Document Conversion
  • Accessibility Checking
  • Wide compatibility
  • Cloud conversion

Cons

  • Font Compatibility
  • Accessibility Features
  • Hard to Correct Accessibility Errors
  • User Interface is Overly Complicated
  • Reduced effort to finalize business documentation
  • Reduced resources required for desktop editing of documents
  • Increased document security
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Integration with Other Systems
The most important factor is the wide compatibility of Adobe Acrobat PDF documents. It is really something that no business can be without. There are no other tools that offer the robust abilities when working with PDFs that Adobe Acrobat does, and the learning curve for other applications is just too steep.
For document security, it has been an amazing plus. However, our IT services are not keen on using any cloud or AI services, since they worry about data security. It is a double-edged sword in this way, because while we need Adobe Acrobat in our daily business, we cannot use all of the functionality that has been built into the suite due to the cloud and security issues IT sees. This can be overcome, however, by working with your IT department to ensure they are satisfied with Adobe's secure features.
Adobe Acrobat is robust. It just does what it's meant to do. The learning curve to use the competition is too steep, and for us - it doesn't make sense to pay for an additional PDF tool when we get so many applications in Adobe Cloud along with our Adobe Acrobat app. There are so many features and things to learn in Foxit and PDF Expert, but they can slow down productivity. For this reason - while these alternatives are great products - they just do not make sense for our use case.

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

Yes

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

Adobe Acrobat is the industry standard for document portability, and it shows. It works very well on almost every document. Where it falls short, sometimes, is on complicated documents with mixtures of images, tables, columns, and other special formatting. Each version has gotten better at providing a smoother user experience in converting and creating PDF files, however, and the cloud services and AI features being added are a game changer.

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