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Great offering if you are already in the Adobe garden
April 27, 2021

Great offering if you are already in the Adobe garden

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

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is useful for us to create PDF forms and complete some corporate paperwork without having to print, sign and scan. Now everything just happens at the power of our keyboards. It helps edit, comment and share the documents easily and thereby maintaining the source of truth. This is generally used by specific teams like legal and marketing that would like to share confidential documents through secure servers rather than over cloud storage.
  • Easy to understand and familiar interface, that is consistent across Adobe suite
  • Not expensive if you are an avid Adobe tools user.
  • Good thoughtful features to create, edit and merge PDFs.
  • The cloud functionality could be mainstream rather than physical documents
  • Tools are great, but sharing or collaboration is still finicky after all these years
  • Editing tools for documents
  • Signing and sharing the documents
  • Comments and replies inline with the document
  • Good price if you use other Adobe tools and bad investment if you just need this one
  • Not being a cloud accessible document to sign online could be a dealbreaker when on the move or have no access to the tool
  • Locally stored documents help maintain confidentiality
Adobe's offering works great for specific scenarios where keeping the documents on the machines is an important factor unlike DocuSign that only offers a cloud solution as per my knowledge. Also being well integrated with other Adobe tools speaks well for this.

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

Yes

Are you happy with Adobe Acrobat Reader's feature set?

Yes

Did Adobe Acrobat Reader live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Adobe Acrobat Reader go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Adobe Acrobat Reader again?

Yes

Given the rise of DocuSign and other cloud services that are quickly getting secure and promise great cloud documentation features, Acrobat is becoming more of a Reader and offline document tool rather than being a top choice for PDFs and other documents. Adobe would benefit from Google Docs style web features and MS Office style native apps.