What is New in Acrobat DC?

The Adobe Document Cloud services and Acrobat DC is the solution for working with important documents across the web, desktop, or mobile devices. Update the Acrobat mobile apps and desktop or you can sign in the Acrobat Web for experiencing the improvements and new features.

Acrobat DC desktop app

Experience of the auto-adjust layout and enhancement of the editing capabilities

Acrobat has introduced editing capabilities that are enhanced with an editing experience that is multi-page and seamless. There is no need to adjust manually the content for fixing overlaps when you edit a PDF document. The new mode of auto-adjust layout in Acrobat can adjust automatically the content and also the reflows.

Key Features

• Images and text automatically adjust across the different pages when you edit
• Margin and the document layout are preserved when you edit
• Select text when navigating across the different paragraphs with the help of the cursor
• Make images or text inline in front of the content of the document
• Easily select the text across the boxes on any page.

Note: The new layout of auto-adjust is available for only the PDF documents in English. The experience is being tested by Adobe in Acrobat.

Request Signatures Integration with Microsoft Outlook

When you attach any PDF document and compose an email, you are prompted to make use of the ‘Request Signatures’ tool by Acrobat. For eg, when you use terms like ‘application’, ‘forms’, or more, these terms are recognized by Acrobat and you are prompted to use the ‘Request Signatures’ tool.

Note: This new integration is being tested in Microsoft Outlook and thus this tool of ‘Request Signatures’ might not be available to all the users.

Organize Pages sub-tools in Edit, File, and Quick Tool menus

The sub-tools of Organize Pages like the ‘’delete’, ‘insert’, or ‘rotate’ pages are available from the File, Quick Tools and Edit menus. This is for ease of access.

Acrobat tools in the File Explorer context Menu of windows 11

Acrobat tools like the ‘Convert’ and ‘Edit’ are available now from the File Explorer ‘Context’ Menu on the Windows 11. The options of the context menu are displayed depending on the actions supported by the file type. The option of ‘Share’ is also added to the share feature of Windows.

Seamless Experience in workflows of file collaboration

You get a seamless experience with Acrobat in collaboration workflows of review and view files. A review files that is ‘unshared’ is removed from all file listings not only in Document Cloud but also Acrobat. In the same manner, the context board consistently appears for all the files that are shared and listed on ‘Starred’ tabs or ‘Recents’ of Acrobats.

When you conduct a search for files in the Acrobat, the results include not only the files shared but also agreements and the non-PDF files that are saved on your account of the ‘Document Cloud’.

Sign-in required for accessing the Acrobat Reader Home

In order to access the ‘Home’ of the Acrobat Reader, you need to sign-in with your ID of Adobe.

Support for ‘Voice-over’ to scroll to the off-screen elements in any PDF on macOS

Acrobat did not allow ‘VoiceOver’ to scroll past the last seen element in the earlier version. Now this has been fixed and you can scroll to the ‘off-screen’ using the ‘VoiceOver’ in Acrobat.

Support for dragging and dropping PDF pages to the desktop with the ‘Protected ‘Mode ‘on’

You could not drag and drop off the PDF pages from the ‘Organize Pages’ tool or the thumbnail view to the desktop and create any new PDF’s in the earlier version of Acrobat. This has now been fixed and Acrobat can display the ‘Save-as’ dialog box when you drag and drop the PDF pages to your desktop. You are prompted to enter any file name and save the specific file.

Download the Acrobat Reader 64-bit from the Microsoft store

This application of 64-bit Acrobat Reader can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store.

Other Improvements and bug fixes

Detailed collection of log for crash of application on macOS

Advanced logging is presently enabled for collecting detailed information in case of crashing of Acrobat on macOS. The log can help Adobe in isolating the root cause and improving the stability of the application.

Improved Stability of Application on macOS

For improving the application stability, many bugs have been fixed on macOS.

Print Driver dependencies updated 

For improving the compatibility and performance of Acrobat with old software dependencies are removed from the printer driver.

Acrobat Reader mobile app

iPhone and iPad

Fill and Sign Enhancements

Several enhancements have been made to ensure an intuitive and smooth experience of ‘Fill and sign’. This includes

• For a text field considered as ‘identified’ you get a bounding box. This helps you to determine the ‘start’ and also the ‘end’ of the form.
• Alignment for the text field that is filled
• Auto-scroll for those users filling the form

Share and collaborate on PDF improvements

The ‘share’ icon has been restored. Acrobat prompting you to ‘Send a Copy’ from the ‘Share’ screen is removed. Many of the bugs that were related to sharing a PDF copy have been fixed.

Improvements in Accessibility

The ‘Dynamic Type’ support is included in all the panels of ‘Setting’ in the Reader app of Acrobat for improving readability. These changes are visible in the ‘Subscriptions’, ‘User profile’ and ‘Preferences’ panels.

Liquid Mode

The listed enhancements are made in the ‘Liquid’ Mode

• Auto open bug fixes along with updates
• Acrobat supports links that are found in the emails generated by the DocGen web.
• Overall improvements and stability in the ‘Liquid’ mode

Bug Fixes and Other Improvements

• Upgraded to In tune 14.6.0.
• Updated the Branch SDK
• Updated from the ACP libraries to the AEP libraries
• Restructured the code of Google Drive, making this compatible to the ‘Swift Packet Manager’
• Improvements in the framework of ‘Menu’
• Fixes for crashes, critical bugs, and issues with the design

Android

Compressed enhancements and delayed paywall

The ‘Compress’ tool can now support 3 levels of compression and the users are provided with additional control over the ‘output’ file. Support is added for ‘Delayed’ paywall for Compress tool.

Migration from the ‘DC’ to the ‘ACP’ server

• Share sheet is enabled on ‘share’ files. You can send a copy on the shared files.
• Public profile of the collaborator info can be fetched for the ‘shared’ assets. Acrobat can, now, use the public profile instead of the user’s private profile for the display of profile information of the user for ‘shared’ assets.

Liquid Mode

• Playground of Doc Gen link support: This Acrobat app can support the Doc gen playground link opening directly in the Liquid mode
• Expansion of Colorado on Device: (CoD) with the release there have been memory improvements to the CoD. This can enable the feature roll-out to devices with memory that is low (4-6GB). Many of the inconsistencies have been fixed between the on-device analytics of Colorado and the streaming.
• Caching of DNS for fixing issues of routing:  Caching the info of DNS on to the ‘client-side’, so that the ‘GET’ Liquid mode and ‘POST’ request issues for syncing can get resolved.

Acrobat Online Services

Acrobat Viewer in the Microsoft Edge

Acrobat of Adobe for the Microsoft Edge can make the tasks of the documents easy and fast as this allows interaction directly with Acrobat, within Edge.

Added Verbs Merge, Split and Protect PDF

• Split PDF: The ‘Split PDF’ service helps you in splitting a PDF file into different PDF’s.
• Merge File: You can merge different PDF files into a single PDF.
• Extract Pages: You can use this tool of ‘Extract’ pages to create another PDF of the pages that are selected from an existing document.
• Protect PDF: You can use this service of ‘Protect PDF’ for adding password security to a specific PDF.