Adobe Acrobat DC is everything my company needs.
Updated February 20, 2025
Adobe Acrobat DC is everything my company needs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Acrobat
In my current role, we work with large PDF documents that often need to be edited, organized, and submitted to various government agencies. Creating these files is a large task, and Adobe Acrobat DC allows this to be considerably easier. Adobe Acrobat DC offers almost all tools I can think of that allow important PDFs to be utilized and meet specific conditions required by the receiving end.
Pros
- Combining PDFs
- Organizing combined PDFs
- Bookmarking documents
Cons
- Large documents tend to move much slower when editing
- More simple way to compress PDFs to smaller sizes
- Recognize text tool often leads to shut down of large documents or moves very slow
- Text recognition
- Organizing pages
- Page numbering
- Increased productivity for regulatory submissions
- Efficiency in teaching others to use the program due to simplicity
My company works with innovative health technology and provides a large amount of design information to external agencies for regulatory purposes. For this reason, locked documents or un-editable documents are often required, and it must be ensured these documents remain safe within the company. For this reason, it's important to know that Adobe Acrobat DC software places emphasis on the safety of these documents and information.
Adobe Acrobat DC is the most user-friendly PDF platform I have used. Compared to other platforms where the tools to edit and organize a PDF will still be there, Adobe Acrobat DC offers a graphical user interface that is very simple and easy to understand. The icons used for the tools are easily understandable, and the interface allows for visual commands that are more understandable to the user. For example, you can click and drag a page around in the file and place it in a different location. In other platforms I've used, you can only move the page a certain number of page numbers (up or down within the document) by determining the number of spaces you want to move it.
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?
Yes
Did implementation of Adobe Acrobat go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Adobe Acrobat again?
Yes
Using Adobe Acrobat
30000 - Regulatory, Marketing, Quality, R&D, Product Management. Various functions use Adobe Acrobat in my organization. All Design and Device History Record are maintained in our document control system in PDF format. To create this PDF format, we use Adobe Acrobat. Specifically, as a Regulatory Affairs Specialist, I am working in Adobe for almost all regulatory submissions I create.
10 - Our IT team supports Adobe Acrobat licensing and access on a global scale. They are very familiar with the technology and can advise on licensing issues regarding the software. For more unique skills, we have users who are highly proficient in using the software, and share this information between team members.
- Regulatory Affairs submission compilation and submission
- Document signatures
- Controlled Documentation for upload
- Scan OCR - we can recognize text in very old scanned documents
- Extracting pages from specific large documents
- Redlining documents and using shaped/ arrows/ callouts to alter images
- We are a medical company, so require certain levels of security for signatures. If levels of compliance are reached, it would be best to be able to sign documents between team members with Adobe accounts. Currently we use Docusign to be compliant.
- Fillable forms are becoming more popular throughout our processes, and they are easily integrated. I foresee the company using these more to encourage consistency in documentation.
Evaluating Adobe Acrobat and Competitors
Not Sure
I would likely still pick Adobe Acrobat. It is a leader in the PDF space and is easily integrated into our other programs (ie. converting a word document to an Adobe PDF). My one complaint is I work with extremely large files. If I were going through the selection process, a consideration would be which platform can manage and continue to operate when very large PDFs are being opened and edited, as Adobe sometimes crashed during this.
Using Adobe Acrobat
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Organize pages
- Scan & OCR / recognize text
- Adding sticky notes
- Highlight function
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