Acrobat DC with Adobe Document Cloud is the complete PDF solution for working anywhere with your most important documents. All-new Acrobat DC is reimagined with a simple user experience. The new Tool Center offers quick access to the tools you use most, while elegant new tool experiences work consistently across desktop, web, and mobile – including touch-enabled devices.
Available for: Acrobat DC Continuous and Acrobat Reader DC ContinuousWith April 2017 release, all customers on the Continuous track will move from 15.xx to 17.xx after the patch is deployed. There will be no change for customers on Classic track.
For more information, see the blog post - Acrobat’s getting a new version number (Reader too!).
You can now convert Microsoft Office documents to high-quality tagged PDFs on Mac OS. In addition to a local conversion, Acrobat DC now uses Adobe Create PDF cloud service to convert the documents to PDFs.
The created PDFs are high-quality and provide exceptional visual fidelity. They are well tagged for accessibility. They also include link recognition, so that hyperlinks, internal document links, and tables of contents are created as live links.
Note:
The service works only when you are online.
Later, if you don’t want to use the cloud service for creating PDFs, you can change your preference.
- Click Preferences on the Acrobat ribbon, select the Prompt for using Adobe Create PDF cloud service check box in the Acrobat Create PDF Settings dialog box, and then click OK.
In Acrobat DC, the following create PDF workflows are supported for creating PDFs using the cloud service:
- Create from the File menu – File > Create > PDF from
file . - Create using the Create PDF tool – Tools > Create PDF > Single File.
- Drag-and-drop.
Using the service, Acrobat DC can convert only one document to PDF at a time.
New support for DirectInk in the Signatures Panel of the Certificates app offers a more natural experience and gives you more control of how your signature looks when signing on Windows 10 devices.
Acrobat can now run OCR on a scanned PDF that contains images with live text on them. Earlier, if you would run OCR on such a PDF, you would see the error message – “This page contains renderable text.”
Available in: Acrobat DC Continuous and ClassicAcrobat now expands the tags tree at the container level on opening the tags panel, by default. It doesn’t override any previous view, but it works as the first default view. The expanded view lets you easily review and fix the document structure.
You can now delete all empty tags in one click. The new Delete Empty Tags option under the Tags menu allows you to delete all empty tags form the subtree of a selected tag. (It doesn’t delete the valid tags, such as TD, TH, and Link – OBJR.)
- Preflight Libraries: Preflight Profiles, Fixups, and Checks are now well organized in Libraries.
For more information, see Preflight Libraries (PDF | 711 KB). - Preflight Variables: Variables allow you to dynamically adjust Profiles, Checks, and Fixups when they are applied. Variables can be used when editing Profiles, Checks, or Fixups wherever the orange triangle shows up. It is also possible to filter for existing objects using Variables.
- Preflight supports the new Ghent PDF Workgroup Specification 2015: The new GWG specifications are based on PDF/X-4, and support native transparency as well as media neutral RGB workflows.
- PDF/UA validation in Preflight: Preflight now makes it possible to fix common accessibility problems and to validate against the international standard for Universal Accessibility PDF/UA.
IT admins can now manage and deploy Acrobat Reader on their own internal update server with Adobe Update Server Setup Tool (AUSST). This tool enables enterprise IT managers to deploy products and updates at their own pace, choosing when to roll out updates to their employees. It supports both Windows and Mac updates.
For more information, see Using Adobe Update Server Setup Tool.
IT admins can now deploy the latest updates of Acrobat Pro, Standard, and Reader to client machines without pushing updates manually using Remote Update Manager (RUM). RUM can be used with the Adobe Update server or now with an internal Adobe Update server if using Adobe Update Server Setup Tool (AUSST).
For more information, see Using Adobe Remote Update Manager.
In addition to image and text, you can now also draw your signature to add it to your digital identity and use it for signing documents. You can use your fingers or a hardware pen to draw the signature.
For a SharePoint-based shared review, Acrobat now automatically creates a new document library within your SharePoint server’s subsite to initiate the shared review. Alternatively, you can also choose a subsite and the respective document library to host the shared review.
Using the automatic configuration option for shared review
For more information, see Hosting shared reviews on SharePoint or Office 365 sites.
You can now add an image field and a date field while preparing your form in Acrobat DC using the Prepare Form tool. While filling in the form, the corresponding fields become clickable – users can click the field and select an image or a date.
While you are preparing the form in Acrobat DC, click the Image Field icon in the toolbar, and then click the location in the document where you want to place the field.
You can rename the field or specify values of the field’s properties as you do for any other field. To open the Properties dialog box, click the All Properties link or double-click the field.
Form filling experience for the image field
Note:
While browsing, select an appropriate file type from the file type drop-down menu shown just above the Open button in the Open dialog box. In addition to PDF files, the following image file types are supported – JPG, GIF, PNG, and TIF.
This new form filling experience for the image field is also available in Acrobat Reader Continuous.
While you are preparing the form in Acrobat DC, click the Date Field icon in the toolbar, and then click the location in the document where you want to place the field.
You can rename the field or specify values of the field’s properties as you do for any other field. To open the Properties dialog box, click the All Properties link or double-click the field.
Form filling experience for the date field
For more information on forms, see Creating and distributing PDF forms.
The following enhancements have been made to the default behavior of the Radio buttons in Acrobat forms:
- Multiple copies of the radio buttons are placed in the same group by default. You can change this behavior and place each radio button in a separate group by selecting the Copy radio buttons in different groups check box.
- Duplicating radio buttons across the pages now creates separate groups per page.
- In the Properties dialog box, when multiple radio buttons are selected, you now have the option to change the group name in a single click using the Group Name field.
Improved image comparison accuracy
The compare files used to highlight the entire image for any changes to the image in the new file. Now it precisely highlights the location of change within the image instead of highlighting the entire image.
Reply, delete, filter, and edit for annotations in the compare reports
- The reply feature is now available in each pop-ups highlighting the changes in the compare report. When you click the Reply link in a pop-up, it takes you to the RHP where you can add appropriate text.
- You can now delete a compare annotation from the report using right click or by pressing the Delete key on your keyboard.
- In the RHP, you can now filter the changes by a particular status.
- You can also edit the text of a compare annotation in the RHP.
For more information, see Compare two versions of a PDF file.
Now you can explicitly pin the LHP entry from the right-click context menu after opening the relevant LHP field.
IT admins can now deliver secure access to Acrobat DC with new support for named user licensing in Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, and VMware Horizon virtual environments.
For more information, see Imaged OS deployments (named user).
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