The Industry Standard Because it's the Best in Class
April 28, 2021

The Industry Standard Because it's the Best in Class

Nathan Morimitsu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

We use Adobe Acrobat DC to create and distribute fillable, sign-able forms, as well as to deliver proofs to the printer for production. The ability to create forms that can be filled out signed digitally, and returned securely and easily to us is the primary reason we use it. Being able to verify proofs of documents is a much-appreciated bonus.
  • Automatic Form Creation. If you have a well-crafted document with checkboxes and lines that need filling, the AI in Acrobat is incredibly good at automatically turning those into fields on a form.
  • Documents that have been created originally in vector formats (AI of CAD Files) can be zoomed in to see minute details without losing clarity.
  • Occasionally updates will fail on install, but this is an extremely rare occurrence.
  • Preferences you set for menus reset whenever there is an update to the software.
  • Sometimes the updates will install a new version and not delete/overwrite the old version, requiring you to remove the old one manually to save on disk space.
  • Automatic form creation.
  • Ease of Zoom on vector docs (CAD Drawings)
  • Secure digital signatures
  • It is difficult to calculate the actual ROI on using Acrobat, but over Q1 of 2021, I estimate that the automatic form creation functionality has saved me about 60 employee hours.

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?

Yes

Would you buy Adobe Acrobat again?

Yes

It isn't that Acrobat is well suited to the tasks that it is used for, it is that it is the industry standard and much easier to use than trying to incorporate similar functionality in Microsoft Word or Google Docs. It also plays well with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, along with most printer RIP software to help provide consistency of prints.