- Acrobat User Guide
- Introduction to Acrobat
- Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Opening and viewing PDFs
- Working with online storage accounts
- Acrobat and macOS
- Acrobat notifications
- Grids, guides, and measurements in PDFs
- Asian, Cyrillic, and right-to-left text in PDFs
- Workspace basics
- Creating PDFs
- Editing PDFs
- Edit text in PDFs
- Edit images or objects in a PDF
- Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
- Edit scanned PDFs
- Enhance document photos captured using a mobile camera
- Optimizing PDFs
- PDF properties and metadata
- Links and attachments in PDFs
- PDF layers
- Page thumbnails and bookmarks in PDFs
- PDFs converted to web pages
- Setting up PDFs for a presentation
- PDF articles
- Geospatial PDFs
- Applying actions and scripts to PDFs
- Change the default font for adding text
- Delete pages from a PDF
- Scan and OCR
- Forms
- PDF forms basics
- Create a form from scratch in Acrobat
- Create and distribute PDF forms
- Fill in PDF forms
- PDF form field properties
- Fill and sign PDF forms
- Setting action buttons in PDF forms
- Publishing interactive PDF web forms
- PDF form field basics
- PDF barcode form fields
- Collect and manage PDF form data
- About forms tracker
- PDF forms help
- Send PDF forms to recipients using email or an internal server
- Combining files
- Combine or merge files into single PDF
- Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
- Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
- Crop PDF pages
- Add watermarks to PDFs
- Add backgrounds to PDFs
- Working with component files in a PDF Portfolio
- Publish and share PDF Portfolios
- Overview of PDF Portfolios
- Create and customize PDF Portfolios
- Sharing, reviews, and commenting
- Share and track PDFs online
- Mark up text with edits
- Preparing for a PDF review
- Starting a PDF review
- Hosting shared reviews on SharePoint or Office 365 sites
- Participating in a PDF review
- Add comments to PDFs
- Adding a stamp to a PDF
- Approval workflows
- Managing comments | view, reply, print
- Importing and exporting comments
- Tracking and managing PDF reviews
- Saving and exporting PDFs
- Security
- Enhanced security setting for PDFs
- Securing PDFs with passwords
- Manage Digital IDs
- Securing PDFs with certificates
- Opening secured PDFs
- Removing sensitive content from PDFs
- Setting up security policies for PDFs
- Choosing a security method for PDFs
- Security warnings when a PDF opens
- Securing PDFs with Adobe Experience Manager
- Protected View feature for PDFs
- Overview of security in Acrobat and PDFs
- JavaScripts in PDFs as a security risk
- Attachments as security risks
- Allow or block links in PDFs
- Electronic signatures
- Sign PDF documents
- Capture your signature on mobile and use it everywhere
- Send documents for e-signatures
- Create a web form
- Request e-signatures in bulk
- Collect online payments
- Brand your account
- About certificate signatures
- Certificate-based signatures
- Validating digital signatures
- Adobe Approved Trust List
- Manage trusted identities
- Printing
- Accessibility, tags, and reflow
- Searching and indexing
- Multimedia and 3D models
- Add audio, video, and interactive objects to PDFs
- Adding 3D models to PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
- Displaying 3D models in PDFs
- Interacting with 3D models
- Measuring 3D objects in PDFs
- Setting 3D views in PDFs
- Enable 3D content in PDF
- Adding multimedia to PDFs
- Commenting on 3D designs in PDFs
- Playing video, audio, and multimedia formats in PDFs
- Add comments to videos
- Print production tools (Acrobat Pro)
- Preflight (Acrobat Pro)
- PDF/X-, PDF/A-, and PDF/E-compliant files
- Preflight profiles
- Advanced preflight inspections
- Preflight reports
- Viewing preflight results, objects, and resources
- Output intents in PDFs
- Correcting problem areas with the Preflight tool
- Automating document analysis with droplets or preflight actions
- Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool
- Additional checks in the Preflight tool
- Preflight libraries
- Preflight variables
- Color management
System requirements for older versions: System requirements | Acrobat (XI, X, 9)
Windows
Acrobat Pro (64-bit) and Acrobat Standard (64-bit)
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Requirement |
Processor |
Intel® or AMD processor; 1.5GHz or faster processor |
Operating system |
Windows 11 (64 bit), Windows 10 (64 bit) version 1809 or later, Windows Server 2016 (64 bit), or Windows Server 2019 (64 bit) |
RAM |
2GB of RAM |
Hard disk space |
4.5GB of available hard-disk space. |
Monitor resolution |
1024x768 screen resolution |
Graphics card |
Video hardware acceleration (optional) |
Acrobat Pro (32-bit) and Acrobat Standard (32-bit)
Starting January 2023, Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader will no longer support 32-bit operating systems, including product and security updates. For more information, see End of support on 32-bit operating systems | Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Reader.
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Requirement |
Processor |
Intel® or AMD processor; 1.5GHz or faster processor |
Operating system |
Windows 11 (64 bit), Windows 10 version 1809 or later (32 bit and 64 bit), Windows 8, 8.1 (32 bit and 64 bit)†, Windows 7 SP1 (32 bit and 64 bit), or Windows Server - 2008 R2 (64 bit), 2012 (64 bit), 2012 R2 (64 bit)†, 2016 (64 bit), or 2019 (64 bit) |
RAM |
2GB of RAM |
Hard disk space |
4.5GB of available hard-disk space |
Monitor resolution |
1024x768 screen resolution |
Graphics card |
Video hardware acceleration (optional) |
† With Windows update 2919355 installed.
macOS
Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Standard
|
Requirement |
Processor |
Intel processor; M1, M2 Apple Silicon processor |
Operating system |
macOS v10.15, macOS v11*, macOS v12, macOS v13, or macOS v14 (Sonoma) |
RAM |
2GB of RAM |
Hard disk space |
2.75GB of available hard-disk space |
Monitor resolution |
1024x768 screen resolution |
*For details, refer to Acrobat compatibility with macOS Big Sur (version 11).
Note: Pre-August 2019 versions of Acrobat, Acrobat 2017, and Acrobat 2015 applications cannot be licensed on macOS 10.15 Catalina and later versions. Adobe recommends customers updating their Acrobat, Acrobat 2017, or Acrobat 2015 to the latest release. To update from within the application, on the Help menu, choose Check for updates and follow onscreen instructions to complete the update process.
Mobile apps
Language versions
Acrobat Pro, Acrobat Standard
The Acrobat desktop app is available in the following languages:
English French German Japanese Italian Spanish Dutch Brazilian Portuguese Swedish |
Danish Finnish Norwegian Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Korean Czech Polish Russian |
Turkish Hungarian Ukrainian Slovak† Slovenian† North African French ‡ Middle Eastern Hebrew § Middle Eastern Arabic § |
† Available on Windows only.
‡ The North African French (Français) version is a French application user interface with Arabic/Hebrew right-to-left language support enabled by default.
§ For Arabic and Hebrew, the application user interface is in English and Arabic/Hebrew right-to-left language support is enabled by default.
The Acrobat Reader mobile app is available in all the above languages except Hungarian, North African French, Slovak, Slovenian, and Ukrainian. Right-to-left language support is not provided.
Browser-based PDF services app is available in these languages: English, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, Korean, Czech, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Chinese Simplified, and Chinese Traditional.
Language availability varies when working with features supported by Adobe Document Cloud services. For more information, see Document Cloud Language Tiers.
Adobe online services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms and the Adobe Privacy Policy. Online services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration, and may be discontinued or modified in whole or in part without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply.