Over time, 'Acrobat Reader' became 'Reader'. 'Acrobat Exchange' soon became 'Acrobat'. Initially, the offered products were called Acrobat Reader, Acrobat Exchange and Acrobat Distiller. Old logos of Acrobat programs and servicesĪdobe has renamed the Acrobat products several times, in addition to merging, splitting and discontinuing them. Acrobat can crop PDF pages, change their order, manipulate hyperlinks, digitally sign a PDF file, add comments, redact certain parts of the PDF file, and ensure its adherence to such standards as PDF/A. In other words, Adobe Acrobat is able to modify the contents of paragraphs and images, but doing so does not repaginate the whole document to accommodate for a longer or shorter document. It is also possible to import a scanner's output, a website, or the contents of the Windows clipboard.īecause of the nature of the PDF, however, once a PDF document is created, its natural organization and flow cannot be meaningfully modified. It can import popular document and image formats and save them as PDF.

The main function of Adobe Acrobat is creating, viewing, and editing PDF documents. complements the family with a variety of enterprise content management and file hosting services. The commercial proprietary Acrobat, available for Microsoft Windows and macOS only, can also create, edit, convert, digitally sign, encrypt, export and publish PDF files. Additional, 'Premium', services are available on paid subscription. The basic Acrobat Reader, available for several desktop and mobile platforms, is freeware it supports viewing, printing and annotating of PDF files. The family comprises Acrobat Reader (formerly Reader), Acrobat (formerly Exchange) and. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC running on Windows 10.

Acrobat xi standard