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        "abstract": "Write the 'Introduction' section of the article titled 'Adobe Acrobat'.",
        "related_work": "Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and Web services developed by Adobe Inc. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files @cite_17.\nThe family comprises Acrobat Reader (formerly Reader), Acrobat (formerly Exchange) and Acrobat.com. The basic Acrobat Reader, available for several desktop and mobile platforms, is freeware; it supports viewing, printing, scaling or resizing @cite_18 and annotating of PDF files @cite_19. Additional, Premium services are available on paid subscription. The commercial proprietary Acrobat, available for Microsoft Windows and macOS only, can also create, edit, convert, digitally sign, encrypt, export and publish PDF files. Acrobat.com complements the family with a variety of enterprise content management and file hosting services.",
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            "@cite_17": "Do it all with Acrobat. Create and edit PDFs. Collaborate with ease. E-sign documents and collect signatures. Get everything done in one app, wherever you work. Acrobat’s got it. Acrobat. Your essential document solution, anywhere you go. Stay on top of your documents with powerful features for desktop, mobile, and web. Edit text and images right in Acrobat. Easily fix text and swap images without jumping to another app. All it takes is a few clicks. Create PDFs from other file types. Images. PowerPoint slides. Spreadsheets. Word docs. Convert your file into a PDF you can easily share with anyone. E-sign and request signatures. Sign documents or request signatures on any device, including mobile. Recipients don’t need to log in. Ask. Acrobat answers. Meet AI Assistant for Acrobat. Ask your document questions. Get one-click summaries for fast insights and level up your productivity. Early-access pricing of AI Assistant for Acrobat starts at US$4.99/mo. Extended to September 4, 2024",
            "@cite_18": "Scale or resize PDF images\nAutomatically scale to fit paper Acrobat can size the pages of a PDF to fit the selected paper size. Choose the hamburger menu   (Windows) or the File menu (macOS) > Print. From the Page Scaling pop-up menu, select one of the following options: Fit  Scale small pages up and large pages down to fit the paper. Shrink oversized pages only large pages to fit the paper and print small pages as they are",
            "@cite_19": "What can you do with the Acrobat Reader - Share and review. Send PDFs to anyone with the Share feature — no login needed to view or comment on your PDF. Fill out forms and add signatures. Fill out forms and add signatures. Type out your responses to questions on any device. Add your signature and return your form — no printer required. Collaborate and comment. Collaborate and comment. Send documents to collaborators and get feedback fast with comments, sticky notes, highlights, strikethroughs, and more. Adobe Acrobat Reader software is the free, trusted global standard for viewing, printing, signing, sharing, and annotating PDFs. It's the only PDF viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content – including forms and multimedia. And now, it’s connected to Adobe Document Cloud services – so you can work with PDFs on any device, from anywhere."
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    {
        "abstract": "Write the 'History' section of the article titled 'Adobe Acrobat'.",
        "related_work": "Adobe Acrobat was launched in 1993 and had to compete with other products and proprietary formats that aimed to create digital documents: Common Ground from No Hands Software Inc @cite_20 Envoy from WordPerfect Corporation Folio Views from NextPage Replica from Farallon Computing @cite_21 WorldView from Interleaf @cite_22 DjVu from AT&T Laboratories Acrobat XI Reader XI Distiller XI Acrobat.com CreatePDF ExportPDF EchoSign FormsCentral SendNow Old logos of Acrobat programs and services Adobe has renamed the Acrobat products several times, in addition to merging, splitting and discontinuing them. Initially, the offered products were called Acrobat Reader, Acrobat Exchange and Acrobat Distiller. Acrobat Exchange soon became Acrobat. Over time, Acrobat Reader became Reader. Between versions 3 and 5, Acrobat did not have several editions.[clarification needed] In 1999, the Acrobat.com service came to being and introduced several web services whose names started with Acrobat, but eventually, Acrobat.com was downgraded from the name of the family of services, to that of one of those services. Unlike most other Adobe products, such as members of Adobe Creative Suite family, the Acrobat products do not have icons that display two letters on a colored rectangle.",
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            "@cite_20": "PAGE 24 PAPERLESS/ NEWS/SOFTWARE Tools resurrect hope for paperless office concept But like so many Biblical characters suddenly struck mutually incoherent, PC users at Combs' university and elsewhere have long been at the mercy of incom- patible fonts and applications running on different platforms. The results aren't pretty: Stark ASCII text. Ugly line breaks. Incompatible ap- plications. How can we distribute it electronical- ly and make it look good? Combs asked. For Combs and others, it may finally be time to answer that question and kiss ASCII goodbye with the help of two new software programs for electronically pub- Amount spent on overnight delivery services each year $11 BILLION lishing but not printing documents. Saving money is only one of many ben- efits Combs and others may find as they begin to use electronic documents. People will see the added capabilities and see this as a better way to do busi- ness, Combs said, BEYOND BABEL, Combs has been testing Adobe Systems Inc.'s Acrobat and No Hands Software Inc.'s Common Ground -two products that go beyond previous attempts at document portability. There have been so many things that were going to finally eliminate paper for- ever, said Tom Evslin, the inventor of Glue and now general manager of the business connectivity unit at Microsoft. [But] the problem hasn't been com- pletely solved. Evslin invented the Macintosh-based Glue to make documents cross-applica- tion compatible. But Glue didn't address the font or cross-platform questions. Other programs, from companies such as Interleaf Inc. and Frame Technology Corp., let authors publish long docu- ments, such as airplane manuals, and then distribute them with electronic read- ers for on-line viewing. But such solu- tions often restrict users to authoring their documents in that vendor's pro- gram. Other programs, such as Interleaf's $10,000 WorldView, are impractical in cost and scope for interoffice memos. Acrobat and Common Ground both cost less than $200 and create portable documents from applications that print. Acrobat, formerly code-named Carousel and first demonstrated in 1991, ships this week to Mac and Windows users. (See related story, page 17.) Common Ground, an outgrowth of Farallon Computing Inc.'s Disk Paper, shipped to Mac users in May. (See Com- mon Ground beats Acrobat to to the Mac- intosh market, May 31, page 18.) INFOWORLD A Windows version of Common Ground is due out this summer, with viewers for DOS users this fall and for Unix and OS/2 users next year. DOS and Unix versions of Acrobat are due this fall. An OS/2 version is not currently scheduled. The two products have a number of similarities. Both produce compressed, portable documents from which users can copy and paste, and both offer basic search functions. Acrobat lets users an- notate documents; a future version of Common Ground will do the same. One key difference between them is that Common Ground users can include a miniviewer with their portable docu- ment, so recipients don't need Common Ground to view the document. Mountain View, Calif.-based Adobe does sell stand-alone readers for Acro- bat's Portable Document Format (PDF) files, but only for bulk purchases of 50 or more. Average users sending out a memo don't have a cost effective way to deliver a PDF reader to recipients. fonts differ- The programs also handle ently. When a document's font is not on recipient's compute Acrobat mimics the metrics of a given font and preserves the document's formatting. Common Ground uses the host operating system's imaging model to reproduce the fonts' exact look as a bit-mapped image. When the document has been created with fancy stylized fonts, Acrobat has no way to reproduce them, said Paul Za- gaeski, senior analyst at the Yankee Group, in Boston. That difference can be important to users of non-Roman fonts like Kanji, which Common Ground currently dis- plays. A Japanese version for searching on Kanji files is due out next month, said No Hands president Tony Stayner. Adobe also plans to release a Kanji ver- sion of Acrobat but didn't say when. The difference in font strategies affect document resolution. The PDF carries full font information, so document reso- lution is device independent. Common Ground's bit-map documents stop at 300 dots per inch, but Stayner said the Bel- mont, Calif.-based No Hands is working on a version to offer higher resolutions. At one level, Common Ground is truer to the original image, but at anoth- er level, Acrobat is more versatile in its output devices, said Paul Saffo, a re- search fellow at the Institute For the Fu- ture, in Menlo Park, Calif. The programs may differ most in future plans. For instance, Adobe will add so- Number of times the average document is copied 19 times Number of hours executives spend looking for lost info each week phisticated search technology from Veri- ty Inc. by year end. We're designing an open-ended API, said senior product marketing manager Rob Babcock. We will deliver it with Verity, but our cus- tomers may want to use other kinds of search and indexing engines. Next year, Adobe also plans to offer OCR capabilities and support for Stan- dard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) in Acrobat products. Stayner said the next version of Com- mon Ground will have new indexing fea- tures and will support document struc- ture in future versions. THE PAPERLESS PAYOFF. As with any new technology, it may take time for paper- less documents to catch on. At the moment, reading a newspaper on a computer screen is about as appeal- ing as reading a newspaper with field glasses, Saffo said. Still, personalized versions of publica- tions distributed digitally could become hugely popular. You'll be able to get a customized version of Info World, spec- ulated Pieter Hartsook, editor of The Hartsook Letter, in Alameda, Calif. Distinguishing between computer screens and paper formats may be critical to the technology's ultimate success. My biggest concern with all of these document viewers is that they start with a printed-page image, said Pete Dyson, editor of the Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing. I believe documents should be formatted for the medium that they are intended for. But once the market adjusts to digital documentation, PC mangers and users. can expect a variety of benefits. For instance, digital information can be JUNE 14, 1993 reused without being re-input, and with the right technology, the information can be indexed and searched. Instead of distributing hard copy. I can now distribute it electronically and archive it, said Joel Wecksell, program director at The Gartner Group, in Stam- ford, Conn. I can search on it, print it lo- cally, and annotate it. Sending a document cross-country over a modem or via electronic mail takes a fraction of the time and cost of even the speediest delivery service. And once the document arrives, it's easier to search the electronic documents for useful data. We're in information overload, and 95 percent of that information is on paper,' said Rob Auster, vice president of elec tronic printing at BIS Strategic Decisions Inc., in Norwell, Mass. Paper is a detri- ment to finding information when you need it. The paperless office will be pa- perless relative to the sorting, retrieving, and accessing of information. Going paperless can also save money. Wecksell referred to a client who cut costs for printing and distributing pro- gram manuals from $572 per set to $15 by Number of documents computers produce each day 600 MILLION publishing on CD-ROM. As corporations discover the different ways paperless documents can save mon- ey, resources, and time, new technologies like Acrobat and Common Ground are likely to change communications around the digital Tower of Babel. Everyone is so accustomed to reading off paper, switching to a screen is going to take longer, concluded Brian Sobus, Acrobat beta-tester and editor at Xemplar Books, in Bethesda, Md. Slowly but surely peo- ple will move away from paper depen- dence towards screen readership. More paperless products planned 0 tures in QuickDraw GX this year. The new operating system software will let users create Portable Digital Documents that will include all the information nec- essary for viewing and printing documents accurately on a Macintosh. With Quick- Draw GX-savvy applications, users will be able to embed fonts (those that fout vendors say can be embedded) and maintain document format and color. Microsoft Corp. has also partially addressed the problem, last year giving Win- dows users the option to embed some fonts in their documents. ther products currently under development may also speed the path to pa- perless communications. Apple Computer Inc. promises to deliver some document portability fea- Magus Software Corp., another contender in the paperless document field, is working on a Windows and OS/2 product called Page Turner. Due to ship next quarter, the $150 software will be a reader that lets users view and print any docu- ment saved as a PostScript file. Page Turner will have keyword search capabilities but not the option to cut and paste from a document. Magus president Kevin Thompson said Mac and Unix versions of Page Turner will follow, but the Moun- tain View, Calif.-based company has no plans for a DOS version. NATALJE JEDAY/INFOWORLD-SOURCE ADOBE SYSTEMS Copyrighted material",
            "@cite_21": "CLIENT/SERVER APPLICATIONS Distributed Databases, Messaging, Groupware, Imaging and Multimedia Windows version of Notes taps key niche BY WAYNE ECKERSON Framingham, Mass. One of the surprise features in Lotus Development Corp.'s Notes Version 3.0 announced this spring was a Notes server that runs on Win- dows 3.1 workstations. scale, said Matt Merrick, manager of information systems at The Merrick Printing Company, Inc. of Louisville, Ky. Some users are deploying the Win- dows server to support production applications that run on laptop com puters, while others are using it as an inexpensive method of developing and prototyping Notes before deploying it throughout the enter prise. Most users have purchased the Windows Notes server as part of Lotus Starter Pack option, which contains a Windows or OS/2 Notes server and two Noticing Notes According to Lotus Development Corp., more than 1,500 organizations are using Lotus Notes worldwide and Lotus sold more than 75,000 Notes licenses in last-quarter 1992. So far, user reaction to the Windows Notes server has been positive and in line with Lotus' purpose in offering a scaled-down platform for running Notes applications. That purpose was to provide a low-cost way for users to implement Notes, accord- ing to Ray Ozzi, president of Iris Associates, Inc. Iris developed the core Notes technology for Lotus. The Windows server version of Notes has given us a cheap way to experiment with Notes and determine if we want to deploy Notes on a larger BRIEFS Windows clients for $995. When you have to spend $20,000 to bring up a product, you think twice about it, said Jim Shelton, director of See Notes, page 87 NCR Corp. has teamed with AT&T EasyLink Services and Deirina Corp, to offer a turnkey electronic forms routing package called NCR Liberty. The package will enable users to send electronic forms across local- and wide- area nets without having to buy additional electronic mail software. NCR Liberty features two modules Liberty Designer/Filler for developing forms-based applications and Liberty Filler for filling out and routing forms electronically. Liberty Designer/Filler will be available in August for $1,000, while Liberty Filler, also available in August, will cost $199 per user. NCR: (513) 439-8404. Data General Corp. last week announced that it will resell Uniplex, Ltd.'s onGo Office and onGo Write/Paint/Draw groupware software products on the DG AVION server platform. DG will sell the products as AV onGO Office (5262 per seat for 100 users) and AV onGo Write/Paint/Draw ($298 per seat for 100 users). The Electronic Mail Association's (EMA) Private Management Domain Operations Committee has teleased a new white paper, Externally Defined Body Parts (Body Part 15). The paper addresses issues associated with automated identification of and interoperability hetween application data types in electronic messages. The paper has been written for both users operating private electronic mail nets and vendors of applications and mes- saging systems. The paper costs $35 for EMA members and $80 for non- members. ΕΜΑ: (703) 875-8620. Kaleida Labs, Inc., the Apple Computer, Inc. and IBM joint multimedia venture, has named IBM veteran Michael Braun to replace Nat Goldhaber as its president and chief executive officer. Goldhaber has been named a cochairman of the Mountain View, Calif., company, whose mission is to develop cross-platform multimedia technology, such as its ScriptX scripting language. Braun most recently was vice president and managing partner of IBM's See Briefs, page 88 NetWare Global MHS users share their experiences Users sold on the product's cost and integration with NetWare. BY BOB BROWN Beta users of Novell, Inc.'s NetWare Global Mes sage Handling Service (MHS) offering are giving the multiprotocol electronic mail server software good reviews based on its cost, flexibility and tight integra tion with NetWare. NetWare Global MHS is an enterprise messaging integration platform based on a series of NetWare Loadable Modules (NLM) that enables users to house messaging, file. and other types of servers on the same system. The product made its debut last summer, and Version 2.0 began shipping earlier this year. The state of Idaho recently completed a 400-user pilot test of what could turn out to be one of the biggest NetWare Global MHS implementations. The state chose the product as the basis for a statewide store- and-forward messaging service to be offered to agen- cies across Idaho, said Jake Hoffman, technology coordinator for the state. The decision to go with NetWare Global MHS was based largely on the state's heavy use of NetWare, he said. The product also features Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and IBM Systems Network Architec ture Distribution Services modules, which the state needs to provide connectivity between its MHS-based mail systems and those based on Digital Equipment Corp. VAXes and IBM mainframes. Novell has also announced an alliance with Retix to develop an X.400 module for NetWare Global MHS, which is in line with Idaho's plan to migrate to X.400, Hoffman said. Overall, Hoffman was pleased with the perfor mance of NetWare Global MHS during the pilot, as well as the price less than $1,000 for a 100-user NLM. NetWare Global MHS won out over offerings from companies such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Soft-Switch, Inc. largely due to price, Hoffman said. Facts about NetWare Global Message Handling Service 2.0 Product description A scalable A scalable messag Loadable Modules (NLM designed for NetWarm on a set of NetWare Messaging protocol NLMs Architecture Distribution Services, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and X-400 Software requirement hotWaro 3.11 or higher Hardware requirement. Inter Corp. 80386 or 80486-based server Price $495 for 20 mailboxes to $7,495 for 1,000 mailboxes Availability Began shipping in January through Novell esens NNOVELL SOURCE NOVELL FAC PRONO UTAH However, Hoffman warned potential NetWare Global MHS users that they may run into problems setting up messaging directories if they have not been careful in the past about giving NetWare servers unique names. Idaho typically had unique server names within each agency, but as Hoffman linked See Global MHS, page 88 Farallon gives Adobe Acrobat run for money Viewer. The Viewer, which runs on 80286-based or higher allows users to view Replica documents from within any Windows or Mac- intosh System 7 application. The Viewer lets users copy and paste any part of a Replica document, including text and graphics, into other applications or documents. BY WAYNE ECKERSON Alameda, Calif Farallon Computing, Inc. has announced software that lets per sonal computer users exchange documents across different plat forms and applications without losing original formatting, fonts or graphics. Called Replica, the software is designed to work with Windows or Macintosh computers and can be integrated with local-area network electronic mail systems, such as Lotus Development Corp.'s cc:Mail. As a network vendor, we've enabled users to share files between Windows and Macintosh computers, said Bill Freedman, product marketing manager at Far allon, which is based here. With Replica, we can now let users share files that can be read in their origi nal format. Freedman said cross-platform document viewing software enables users to share documents without buying compatible soft- ware for every desktop in the orga nization. Replica is akin to Adobe Sys tems, Inc.'s Acrobat software, which was recently introduced with a lot of fanfare. Freedman said Replica offers many of the same capabilities as Acrobat but is half the price and can run on smaller machines. Replica consists of Replica Cre ator and Replica Viewer software. The Creator software works with any Windows or Macintosh appli- cation that can produce printed output. It converts documents into a special Replica format, which can be read from within any appli cation that supports the Replica Users can also include a run- time version of the Viewer in a Rep lica file they want to distribute, thereby enabling recipients to view the file without having the Replica Viewer loaded on their machines. Recipients of such doc uments can load the Viewer onto their hard disks at no charge, Faral- lon officials said. Farallon recommends that users run Replica on 386 PCs with 4M bytes of memory. Replica is priced at $99 per copy and $749 for a 10-user ver- sion. Replica for Windows is cur- rently available, and the Macin tosh version will be available by the end of the year. Farallon: (510) 814-5100. NETWORK WORLD JULY 26, 1905 86",
            "@cite_22": "PRODUCT COMPARISON Electronic document solutions Reading what you sow COMPARED EBT solution DynaText Indexer and Browser 2.3, In5tEd, and DynaTag 2.0 Electronic Book Technologies Inc. Folio solution Folio Views Infobase Production Kit 3.1 and Folio Views Infobase Manager 3.1 Folio Corp. InfoAccess solution Guide Passport and Guide Reader InfoAccess Inc. Interleaf solution Interleaf 6 Windows 95 and Windows NT, WorldView Press, and WorldView Viewer Interleaf Inc. UPCOMING ISSUE Adobe Systems Inc.'s FrameMaker 6 wasn't available for our testing, but see how it compares with these solutions in our forthcoming Product Comparison Update 66 INFOWORLD JULY 22, 1996 Want to move your corporate library online and cultivate collaboration on publications? Root yourself in train- ing at the start so you can harvest suc- cessful electronic publications later. L ike the end of a rainbow, the paperless office is a a goal that seems to recede as we move closer to it. But even if we never manage to lay our hands on that pot of gold, we are getting closer. The most recent and visible signs are the explosion of corporate Web pages and the blossoming of groupware programs. Unfortunately, Web pages are slow, limited in formatting, and have only basic search tools, and groupware programs require constant care. So what if you simply want to publish large, hyperlinked documents such as documentation, help files, or company publications-for users to access via the network or CD-ROM? What you need is an elec tronic document authoring application. NOT QUITE AN OPEN BOOK. Electronic document authoring, is not a well-defined category of software. In fact, users are putting together a diverse set of programs to use while vendors rush to tweak their pro grams to better suit the needs of network and CD-ROM publishers. For this comparison, we selected examples of the solutions we know readers will consider: traditional publishers, Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) systems, and hypertext databases. They are designed for large and detailed collections of information, so before you start, invest time (and money) to be properly trained. We compared Electronic Book Technologies Inc. (EBT)'s SGML converter (the EBT solution), which included DynaText Indexer and Browser 2.3, InStEd, and DynaTag 2.0, with Microsoft Corps Word for authoring capabilities; Folio Corp.'s Folio Views Infobase Produc tion Kit 3.1 (IPK) and Folio Views Infobase Manager 3.1 (the Folio solution); InfoAccess Inc.'s Guide Passport and Guide Reader (the InfoAccess solution); and Interleaf Inc.'s Interleaf 6 Windows 95 and Windows NT, WorldView Press, and WorldView Viewer (the Interleaf solution). We'll compare Adobe Systems Inc.'s FrameMaker 6 with these four solutions in an upcoming Product Comparison Update; it was not ready for our testing. The Folio solution leads the pack, because it does the basics very well: It features powerful formatting and hyperlinking tools as well as strong search tools. The IPK's long history as an end-user application محلة shows up in the program's attractive interface and excellent ease of use. Keep in mind, however, that these programs aren't the only ones on the market. Indeed, whichever approach you decide is best-SGML hypertext, or a complete publishing system. programs to consider. there are a variety of STOP THE PRESSES. There are lots of electronic publishing methods. http://www.infoworld.com"
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    {
        "abstract": "Write the 'Document Cloud' section of the article titled 'Adobe Acrobat'.",
        "related_work": "In April 2015, Adobe introduced the Document Cloud branding (alongside its Creative Cloud) to signify its adoption of the cloud storage and the software as a service model. Programs under this branding received a DC suffix. In addition, Reader was renamed back to Acrobat Reader @cite_23 @cite_24. Following the introduction of Document Cloud, Acrobat.com was discontinued as their features were integrated into the desktop programs and mobile apps.",
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            "@cite_23": "Review: Adobe Acrobat polishes its act - New version greatly improves PDF editability and mobile support, while introducing handy cloud-based document signing and management. To me, Adobe has always been the company that made powerful software with hard-to-learn and hard-to-use interfaces. Case in point: Photoshop. This widely used digital photo editing, printing, and drawing software seems to contain every image editing and processing technique known to man, but requires formal training or years of use before it becomes natural. Adobe launched its Creative Cloud in 2012, to mixed reviews. Some people thought a monthly subscription model was a huge improvement over having to upgrade thousands of dollars' worth of software on an annual or biannual basis; others resented having to pay continuously for software that they felt they’d bought, but knew would become obsolete as they upgraded their operating systems and hardware. I initially resented the push to the subscription model, but came around as I realized that my Creative Cloud subscription gave me more of the programs I needed for less total expenditure over time. Initially, there wasn’t much actual “cloud” in the Creative Cloud. It was more of a branding and purchase model change. Eventually, cloud file sharing and exchange and cloud assets became important parts of the Creative Cloud software suite. This week Adobe introduced the Adobe Document Cloud along with a more capable, easier-to-use version of Acrobat called Acrobat DC. The combination allows you to create, edit, sign, share, and track PDFs from anywhere, with Adobe’s promise that it will change how you work with all your important documents forever. I won’t go that far -- but it is a big improvement over Acrobat XI. Acrobat DC desktop The new Acrobat DC home screen (Figure 1) shows you all the PDF files you have recently visited on all your signed-in computers, including your iOS and Android mobile devices as well as your Windows and OS X computers. This gives you a fast place to start working on PDF files -- it’s actually more convenient than the way Microsoft handles the opening screen of Office applications. Once you open a document, you can see the most common tools in the right-hand column, with the option to search for any tools you wish from the box in the top right (Figure 2). That right there is a huge improvement over the UI of Acrobat XI, where I constantly had to play “find the function” to locate little-used but important capabilities such as redaction of sensitive or personal information. A third major screen, Tools, shows you all major tool categories in graphical form and includes its own search function. We’re still batting 1.000. But here’s where it starts to fall apart. You can save a file to your computer, your Document Cloud (if you’re signed in), or your Creative Cloud (if you have one), but if you go to open a file using the File/Open dialog or look at it from your Mac Finder or Windows Explorer, the Document Cloud is nowhere to be found. At first glance, you might think your file went into a roach motel and will never come out. It’s still there, however. Remember the Home screen? Whew! You’ll also find it if you browse to Acrobat.com (the old name for the Document Cloud), log in, and view your files, for example at https://cloud.acrobat.com/recent. Editing a PDF file used to be limited by the capabilities of Acrobat XI. To work around those limitations, I often made my edits to an article or book chapter in comments so that the author could apply them in Word if accepted, or I asked the author for the original Word document so that I could make tracked edits that they could then accept or reject. Acrobat DC fixes most of that. You can reflow text not only across a paragraph, but also across a page. You can add new lines to existing bulleted or numbered lists without reformatting. And fonts are matched -- sort of -- automatically. Sort of matched? For example, in Figure 3 you can see Acrobat DC trying to match a document’s fonts when I’m editing. This PDF uses Gill Sans, which is present on my Mac but not on a fresh Windows 10 installation. On the Mac, I had no problem editing; on Windows, Acrobat decided to substitute Comic Sans. At first I thought that was a joke. Alas, no. Should you happen to have touch-enabled devices, Acrobat DC will work with them. If you need to start with a scanned paper document, Acrobat DC will make quick work of converting it into an editable document, matching the fonts as well as it can, creating blocks, and giving you an opportunity to easily correct any OCR errors. If you need to export to Office, Acrobat DC does so much more cleanly and with better fidelity than Acrobat XI ever did. Acrobat DC mobile The concept of hand-off between iOS and OS X seemed interesting last year when Apple introduced it, but I never saw it in action because my iPad and iMac are too old. The Acrobat DC mobile versions on iOS and Android can interact with PDF content almost as well as the desktop versions on OS X and Windows, and the Document Cloud with mobile sign-in makes hand-off a low-friction process. Yes, you workaholic, you can mark up a PDF from your iPad on the train to work, then pick up where you left off from your work computer (Figure 4). If you think about it, camera integration might be the most useful integration that mobile Acrobat could have -- and it does. Use the Camera to PDF function in mobile Acrobat DC, and you can take a new picture or pick an image from your device, then track the conversion on the Acrobat Outbox. Once it’s converted and in the Document Cloud, you can enhance the PDF on a computer. The enhancements aren’t always perfect, but if you weren’t too far off on the angle and exposure of your images, you can correct them within Acrobat DC, fix the skew, and have it recognize the text. Does this replace a scanner? No -- but it’ll do in a pinch. Acrobat sign and send While form filling and electronic signatures have been useful for PDFs for more than a year, Acrobat DC and the Fill & Sign apps have taken this to a new level. In addition, Document Cloud adds tracked sending and delivery of documents, even large files that won’t transmit over email. Tracked sending requires a subscription. If you don’t have a paid Document Cloud subscription, you can still send large documents, but what you’re sending are anonymous links. This might be another argument in favor of a subscription -- or it might cause users who have purchased the product to raise a ruckus, the way they did when Photoshop CC became subscription-only. Overall, I like Acrobat DC’s greatly improved mobile and touch functionality, its better desktop usability, its much better PDF document editability and fidelity (even for scanned documents), and its new cloud sharing, signing, and tracking, as well as the fact that Acrobat DC is already included in my Creative Cloud subscription. I’m less enticed by the few omissions in the new user interface, the fact that Acrobat pricing is still at a premium level, and the limit of two desktop/laptop installations per subscription, which became an issue for me during my review. All of these are reflected in my scores: I consider Acrobat DC to be very good, but not yet excellent. I was able to work around the two-machine limit by signing out on other computers, and by using a perpetual license to create a second Adobe ID for the Document Cloud, but it was not my idea of a friendly experience. As a software reviewer, I might not be a typical user -- I have two Macs, two PCs, and about 15 virtual machine images on which I might want to run Acrobat, not to mention two Android devices and an iPad. (The mobile devices are not counted against the limit.) Nonetheless, I’ll bet many of you use more than two computers. I might guess you use one at home, one at work, and a laptop for the train and other travel. Does the tablet support in Acrobat DC make a difference? I would guess yes -- but I’d also offer the observations that the sort of people who use Acrobat heavily are also touch typists who are most productive when they have a physical keyboard, and the Bluetooth keyboards for tablets are not yet up to the same level as the keyboards on good laptops.",
            "@cite_24": "Adobe teams up with Dropbox as part of Document Cloud upgrades A massive set of changes levels up Adobe's document management and e-sign platform Adobe is making it easier to work with PDF files stored in the cloud, thanks to a new partnership with Dropbox that connects users of the Acrobat PDF editing and viewing products with documents stored in the cloud storage firm's online locker. Starting Tuesday, users will be able to link their Dropbox accounts with Adobe's Acrobat Reader and Acrobat DC desktop apps, and then edit any PDFs they have stored in Dropbox's cloud from Acrobat without having to go digging for the right file. On the desktop, that doesn't seem like much of a bonus, since it's already possible to open files from a Dropbox folder that's stored on a user's computer with those apps. However, the companies will soon be rolling out an integration for iOS so mobile users who would otherwise have to flip between different apps in order to open their files won't need to. As part of that integration, when users open a PDF in the Dropbox app on their iOS devices a little bubble will pop up informing them that they can work more productively with the document using Acrobat. Having that bubble is a win for Adobe, which has to stand out among a sea of other PDF authoring and editing apps like Smile Software's PDFpen. Of course, it may also prove annoying for people who enjoyed the unblemished experience of using Dropbox prior to the integration. After the iOS features roll out in the coming months, Adobe and Dropbox will work together on similar experiences for Android users that are slated to launch next year. A similar suggestion feature will also show up in Dropbox's web interface. The Dropbox partnership is an interesting one, since Adobe's Document Cloud ambitions are primarily enterprise-focused. While Dropbox has a significant user base, its enterprise offering has largely lagged behind offerings from competitors like Google and Microsoft. Adobe plans to work on similar integrations with other storage providers in the future, and it's been cultivating a partner ecosystem around its Document Cloud beyond that, too. The company announced partnerships with Salesforce and Workday last month that are focused on integrating Document Cloud e-signature services into those products. Integrating with Dropbox is one component of a larger set of announcements Adobe made around its Document Cloud. The service, which is primarily focused on offering electronic signature functionality, now has a drag-and-drop workflow tool that lets anyone with a Document Cloud subscription set up a system for passing a document around to multiple people for them to review and sign. The service's e-sign capabilities also now include support for digital signatures, a more advanced form of electronic signature that uses a physical smartcard with a secure chip to authenticate a signature. It's a useful functionality for people in regulated industries like biopharmaceuticals, along with government workers and residents of countries that offer those cards as part of their identity Companies that want their employees to do more on the go can take advantage of new functionality that integrates with smartphones. Using the eSign Manager DC mobile app, employees will be able to take a photo of their handwritten signature and then use it to repeatedly sign documents. In addition, users can sync their signature across mobile, Web, and desktop apps so they can sign documents in a variety of locations. The Fill & Sign app, which lets anyone convert digital or scanned documents into electronic forms, is now also available for iPhone in addition to its existing incarnation on the iPad. All of this is part of Adobe's strategy to compete in a rough-and-tumble e-signature market against companies like DocuSign, which has made its entire business out of offering electronic signature products and has raised more than half a million dollars from investors and has an impressive client roll to boot."
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