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  1. Acrobat User Guide
  2. Introduction to Acrobat
    1. Access Acrobat from desktop, mobile, web
    2. What's new in Acrobat
    3. Keyboard shortcuts
    4. System Requirements
  3. Workspace
    1. Workspace basics
    2. Opening and viewing PDFs
      1. Opening PDFs
      2. Navigating PDF pages
      3. Viewing PDF preferences
      4. Adjusting PDF views
      5. Enable thumbnail preview of PDFs
      6. Display PDF in browser
    3. Working with online storage accounts
      1. Access files from Box
      2. Access files from Dropbox
      3. Access files from OneDrive
      4. Access files from SharePoint
      5. Access files from Google Drive
    4. Acrobat and macOS
    5. Acrobat notifications
    6. Grids, guides, and measurements in PDFs
    7. Asian, Cyrillic, and right-to-left text in PDFs
  4. Creating PDFs
    1. Overview of PDF creation
    2. Create PDFs with Acrobat
    3. Create PDFs with PDFMaker
    4. Using the Adobe PDF printer
    5. Converting web pages to PDF
    6. Creating PDFs with Acrobat Distiller
    7. Adobe PDF conversion settings
    8. PDF fonts
  5. Editing PDFs
    1. Edit text in PDFs
    2. Edit images or objects in a PDF
    3. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
    4. Edit scanned PDFs
    5. Enhance document photos captured using a mobile camera
    6. Optimizing PDFs
    7. PDF properties and metadata
    8. Links and attachments in PDFs
    9. PDF layers
    10. Page thumbnails and bookmarks in PDFs
    11. Action Wizard (Acrobat Pro)
    12. PDFs converted to web pages
    13. Setting up PDFs for a presentation
    14. PDF articles
    15. Geospatial PDFs
    16. Applying actions and scripts to PDFs
    17. Change the default font for adding text
    18. Delete pages from a PDF
  6. Scan and OCR
    1. Scan documents to PDF
    2. Enhance document photos
    3. Troubleshoot scanner issues when scanning using Acrobat
  7. Forms
    1. PDF forms basics
    2. Create a form from scratch in Acrobat
    3. Create and distribute PDF forms
    4. Fill in PDF forms
    5. PDF form field properties
    6. Fill and sign PDF forms
    7. Setting action buttons in PDF forms
    8. Publishing interactive PDF web forms
    9. PDF form field basics
    10. PDF barcode form fields
    11. Collect and manage PDF form data
    12. About forms tracker
    13. PDF forms help
    14. Send PDF forms to recipients using email or an internal server
  8. Combining files
    1. Combine or merge files into single PDF
    2. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
    3. Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
    4. Crop PDF pages
    5. Add watermarks to PDFs
    6. Add backgrounds to PDFs
    7. Working with component files in a PDF Portfolio
    8. Publish and share PDF Portfolios
    9. Overview of PDF Portfolios
    10. Create and customize PDF Portfolios
  9. Sharing, reviews, and commenting
    1. Share and track PDFs online
    2. Mark up text with edits
    3. Preparing for a PDF review
    4. Starting a PDF review
    5. Hosting shared reviews on SharePoint or Office 365 sites
    6. Participating in a PDF review
    7. Add comments to PDFs
    8. Adding a stamp to a PDF
    9. Approval workflows
    10. Managing comments | view, reply, print
    11. Importing and exporting comments
    12. Tracking and managing PDF reviews
  10. Saving and exporting PDFs
    1. Saving PDFs
    2. Convert PDF to Word
    3. Convert PDF to JPG
    4. Convert or export PDFs to other file formats
    5. File format options for PDF export
    6. Reusing PDF content
  11. Security
    1. Enhanced security setting for PDFs
    2. Securing PDFs with passwords
    3. Manage Digital IDs
    4. Securing PDFs with certificates
    5. Opening secured PDFs
    6. Removing sensitive content from PDFs
    7. Setting up security policies for PDFs
    8. Choosing a security method for PDFs
    9. Security warnings when a PDF opens
    10. Securing PDFs with Adobe Experience Manager
    11. Protected View feature for PDFs
    12. Overview of security in Acrobat and PDFs
    13. JavaScripts in PDFs as a security risk
    14. Attachments as security risks
    15. Allow or block links in PDFs
  12. Electronic signatures
    1. Sign PDF documents
    2. Capture your signature on mobile and use it everywhere
    3. Send documents for e-signatures
    4. About certificate signatures
    5. Certificate-based signatures
    6. Validating digital signatures
    7. Adobe Approved Trust List
    8. Manage trusted identities
  13. Printing
    1. Basic PDF printing tasks
    2. Print Booklets and PDF Portfolios
    3. Advanced PDF print settings
    4. Print to PDF
    5. Printing color PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
    6. Printing PDFs in custom sizes
  14. Accessibility, tags, and reflow
    1. Create and verify PDF accessibility
    2. Accessibility features in PDFs
    3. Reading Order tool for PDFs
    4. Reading PDFs with reflow and accessibility features
    5. Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels
    6. Creating accessible PDFs
  15. Searching and indexing
    1. Creating PDF indexes
    2. Searching PDFs
  16. Multimedia and 3D models
    1. Add audio, video, and interactive objects to PDFs
    2. Adding 3D models to PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
    3. Displaying 3D models in PDFs
    4. Interacting with 3D models
    5. Measuring 3D objects in PDFs
    6. Setting 3D views in PDFs
    7. Enable 3D content in PDF
    8. Adding multimedia to PDFs
    9. Commenting on 3D designs in PDFs
    10. Playing video, audio, and multimedia formats in PDFs
    11. Add comments to videos
  17. Print production tools (Acrobat Pro)
    1. Print production tools overview
    2. Printer marks and hairlines
    3. Previewing output
    4. Transparency flattening
    5. Color conversion and ink management
    6. Trapping color
  18. Preflight (Acrobat Pro)
    1. PDF/X-, PDF/A-, and PDF/E-compliant files
    2. Preflight profiles
    3. Advanced preflight inspections
    4. Preflight reports
    5. Viewing preflight results, objects, and resources
    6. Output intents in PDFs
    7. Correcting problem areas with the Preflight tool
    8. Automating document analysis with droplets or preflight actions
    9. Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool
    10. Additional checks in the Preflight tool
    11. Preflight libraries
    12. Preflight variables
  19. Color management
    1. Keeping colors consistent
    2. Color settings
    3. Color-managing documents
    4. Working with color profiles
    5. Understanding color management
  1. Acrobat User Guide
  2. Introduction to Acrobat
    1. Access Acrobat from desktop, mobile, web
    2. What's new in Acrobat
    3. Keyboard shortcuts
    4. System Requirements
  3. Workspace
    1. Workspace basics
    2. Opening and viewing PDFs
      1. Opening PDFs
      2. Navigating PDF pages
      3. Viewing PDF preferences
      4. Adjusting PDF views
      5. Enable thumbnail preview of PDFs
      6. Display PDF in browser
    3. Working with online storage accounts
      1. Access files from Box
      2. Access files from Dropbox
      3. Access files from OneDrive
      4. Access files from SharePoint
      5. Access files from Google Drive
    4. Acrobat and macOS
    5. Acrobat notifications
    6. Grids, guides, and measurements in PDFs
    7. Asian, Cyrillic, and right-to-left text in PDFs
  4. Creating PDFs
    1. Overview of PDF creation
    2. Create PDFs with Acrobat
    3. Create PDFs with PDFMaker
    4. Using the Adobe PDF printer
    5. Converting web pages to PDF
    6. Creating PDFs with Acrobat Distiller
    7. Adobe PDF conversion settings
    8. PDF fonts
  5. Editing PDFs
    1. Edit text in PDFs
    2. Edit images or objects in a PDF
    3. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
    4. Edit scanned PDFs
    5. Enhance document photos captured using a mobile camera
    6. Optimizing PDFs
    7. PDF properties and metadata
    8. Links and attachments in PDFs
    9. PDF layers
    10. Page thumbnails and bookmarks in PDFs
    11. Action Wizard (Acrobat Pro)
    12. PDFs converted to web pages
    13. Setting up PDFs for a presentation
    14. PDF articles
    15. Geospatial PDFs
    16. Applying actions and scripts to PDFs
    17. Change the default font for adding text
    18. Delete pages from a PDF
  6. Scan and OCR
    1. Scan documents to PDF
    2. Enhance document photos
    3. Troubleshoot scanner issues when scanning using Acrobat
  7. Forms
    1. PDF forms basics
    2. Create a form from scratch in Acrobat
    3. Create and distribute PDF forms
    4. Fill in PDF forms
    5. PDF form field properties
    6. Fill and sign PDF forms
    7. Setting action buttons in PDF forms
    8. Publishing interactive PDF web forms
    9. PDF form field basics
    10. PDF barcode form fields
    11. Collect and manage PDF form data
    12. About forms tracker
    13. PDF forms help
    14. Send PDF forms to recipients using email or an internal server
  8. Combining files
    1. Combine or merge files into single PDF
    2. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
    3. Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
    4. Crop PDF pages
    5. Add watermarks to PDFs
    6. Add backgrounds to PDFs
    7. Working with component files in a PDF Portfolio
    8. Publish and share PDF Portfolios
    9. Overview of PDF Portfolios
    10. Create and customize PDF Portfolios
  9. Sharing, reviews, and commenting
    1. Share and track PDFs online
    2. Mark up text with edits
    3. Preparing for a PDF review
    4. Starting a PDF review
    5. Hosting shared reviews on SharePoint or Office 365 sites
    6. Participating in a PDF review
    7. Add comments to PDFs
    8. Adding a stamp to a PDF
    9. Approval workflows
    10. Managing comments | view, reply, print
    11. Importing and exporting comments
    12. Tracking and managing PDF reviews
  10. Saving and exporting PDFs
    1. Saving PDFs
    2. Convert PDF to Word
    3. Convert PDF to JPG
    4. Convert or export PDFs to other file formats
    5. File format options for PDF export
    6. Reusing PDF content
  11. Security
    1. Enhanced security setting for PDFs
    2. Securing PDFs with passwords
    3. Manage Digital IDs
    4. Securing PDFs with certificates
    5. Opening secured PDFs
    6. Removing sensitive content from PDFs
    7. Setting up security policies for PDFs
    8. Choosing a security method for PDFs
    9. Security warnings when a PDF opens
    10. Securing PDFs with Adobe Experience Manager
    11. Protected View feature for PDFs
    12. Overview of security in Acrobat and PDFs
    13. JavaScripts in PDFs as a security risk
    14. Attachments as security risks
    15. Allow or block links in PDFs
  12. Electronic signatures
    1. Sign PDF documents
    2. Capture your signature on mobile and use it everywhere
    3. Send documents for e-signatures
    4. About certificate signatures
    5. Certificate-based signatures
    6. Validating digital signatures
    7. Adobe Approved Trust List
    8. Manage trusted identities
  13. Printing
    1. Basic PDF printing tasks
    2. Print Booklets and PDF Portfolios
    3. Advanced PDF print settings
    4. Print to PDF
    5. Printing color PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
    6. Printing PDFs in custom sizes
  14. Accessibility, tags, and reflow
    1. Create and verify PDF accessibility
    2. Accessibility features in PDFs
    3. Reading Order tool for PDFs
    4. Reading PDFs with reflow and accessibility features
    5. Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels
    6. Creating accessible PDFs
  15. Searching and indexing
    1. Creating PDF indexes
    2. Searching PDFs
  16. Multimedia and 3D models
    1. Add audio, video, and interactive objects to PDFs
    2. Adding 3D models to PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
    3. Displaying 3D models in PDFs
    4. Interacting with 3D models
    5. Measuring 3D objects in PDFs
    6. Setting 3D views in PDFs
    7. Enable 3D content in PDF
    8. Adding multimedia to PDFs
    9. Commenting on 3D designs in PDFs
    10. Playing video, audio, and multimedia formats in PDFs
    11. Add comments to videos
  17. Print production tools (Acrobat Pro)
    1. Print production tools overview
    2. Printer marks and hairlines
    3. Previewing output
    4. Transparency flattening
    5. Color conversion and ink management
    6. Trapping color
  18. Preflight (Acrobat Pro)
    1. PDF/X-, PDF/A-, and PDF/E-compliant files
    2. Preflight profiles
    3. Advanced preflight inspections
    4. Preflight reports
    5. Viewing preflight results, objects, and resources
    6. Output intents in PDFs
    7. Correcting problem areas with the Preflight tool
    8. Automating document analysis with droplets or preflight actions
    9. Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool
    10. Additional checks in the Preflight tool
    11. Preflight libraries
    12. Preflight variables
  19. Color management
    1. Keeping colors consistent
    2. Color settings
    3. Color-managing documents
    4. Working with color profiles
    5. Understanding color management
Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat Pro with online services is the complete PDF solution for working with your most important documents across desktop, web, and mobile devices. Update your Acrobat desktop and mobile apps, or sign in to Acrobat online to experience the new features and improvements.

Acrobat desktop app

March 2023 release

To experience the new features immediately, update your Acrobat—on the Help menu, click Check for updates and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the update process.

The following new features are introduced in this release. Click > to know more about the feature.

Adobe introduced an entirely reimagined experience for Acrobat (64-bit) desktop users last year for selected users. With the March 2023 release, the new experience is available for all fresh Acrobat Reader installs in the English locale. The new experience aims to provide an intuitive and seamless experience for viewing content and performing any action on the PDF.

With the March 2023 release of Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader, the software version will be updated from 22.xx to 23.xx. This change applies only to the Continuous track of Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. For more information, see Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader upcoming version changes.

Acrobat now provides an enhanced document scrolling experience while viewing or reading the document with Enable Scrolling Mode.

  • The scrolling experience on macOS has improved by 66% from 30fps to over 50fps. 
  • The scrolling experience on Windows has improved from ~15fps to ~30fps.
Note:

Adobe is rolling out this feature incrementally.

The auto-adjust layout mode in Acrobat now supports the following key features:

  • PDFs containing paragraphs, lists, image, table and side-by-side content are now qualified for editing.
  • Keyboard actions like Cut, Copy, Paste, and Undo or Redo operations are now supported for content within or around another content.
  • While editing a column, the content reflows in the same column. However, PDFs with multi column content in which the content reflows from one to another column is disqualified and isn't eligible for enhanced editing using the auto-adjust layout feature.

In the earlier version, if you use a tool or its sub tools from the All tools tab in the modern viewer of Acrobat and then select the back button, Acrobat takes you back to the parent tool of the selected tool. In this release, selecting the back button takes you to the All Tools panel.

Note:

This feature is rolled out as an experiment and is not available to all users.

Acrobat modern viewer now supports plugins from third parties.

The anti-clockwise rotate button is now replaced with the crop button when you right-click in a PDF.

Note:

This feature is rolled out as an experiment and is not available to all users.

The Add custom page tool is now renamed to Design a new page to align with the tool’s actual purpose.

Add custom page tool

If you use the Design a new page tool from the right-click context menu or the insertion bar to add a new page from an existing template to the beginning of a document, the page size is adjusted to match the size of the selected first page. Similarly, if you add a page in between the pages of the document, the page size is adjusted to match the selected page of the document, or the second page before which you want to insert the new page.

Deisgn a new page

Acrobat now allows recipients to invite other collaborators via @mention, which wasn't possible in the previous versions.  The following prompts inform you of the @mention functionality.

Prompt for shared files or Adobe Cloud files
Prompt for shared files or Adobe Cloud files

Prompt for non-shared files or local files
Prompt for non-shared files or local files

In PDF comments and replies, Acrobat now prompts you to invite reviewers using @mention.

Note:

This feature is rolled out as an experiment and is not available to all users.

Use @mention prompt while commenting
Use @mention prompt while commenting

Use @mention prompt while replying
Use @mention prompt while replying

Additionally, if Acrobat detects that you have no file-sharing history or if Microsoft Outlook isn't installed, it prompts you to choose your contacts or send an e-mail.

Prompt when no file sharing history or Outlook is not installed
Select from contacts list ot type an email when Outlook is not installed

Share files prompt after you create a PDF

Acrobat now prompts you to share files via a link or invite users to review after you've created a PDF file from a clipboard, webpage, or a blank page.

Share file prompt after you create a pdf from Clipboard or Webpage, or Blank Page
Share file prompt after you create a pdf from Clipboard or Webpage, or Blank Page

Share the file link prompt after you create a pdf from Clipboard or Webpage, or Blank Page
Share the file link prompt after you create a pdf from Clipboard or Webpage, or Blank Page

Share files prompt after you Convert to pdf

Acrobat now prompts you to share files via a link or invite users to review after you've converted to a PDF file from other file formats.

Share file prompt after you convert to PDF
Share file prompt after you convert to PDF

Share the file link prompt after you convert to PDF
Share the file link prompt after you convert to PDF

Use edit tool prompt while formatting text

Acrobat now prompts you to use the Edit tool when you try to format text like increase or decrease font size, bold or italicize text using keyboard shortcuts.

Edit tool prompt

Use edit tool prompt while using cut, delete, paste options

When you use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl/Cmd +X to cut a text in PDF, Acrobat prompts you to use the Edit tool to perform the operation.

Edit tool prompt while using keyboard shortcuts to cut or paste

When you press the Delete or Backspace key on the keyboard to delete text in a PDF, Acrobat prompts you to use the Edit tool to perform the operation.

Edit tool prompt while deleting text

Similarly, when you use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl/Cmd +V to paste text in a PDF, Acrobat prompts you to use the Edit tool to perform the operation.

Edit tool prompt while using keyboard shortcuts to paste

Edit menu options enabled while text selection

When you select a text in a PDF, the options like Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Select all, Deselect all and Take a Snapshot are enabled in the Edit menu.

Edit options when you select text

Acrobat now prompts you to use the Export tool when you use the Select All or Take a Snapshot option in the Edit menu.

Note:

This feature is rolled out as an experiment and is not available to all users.

Prompt to use Export tool when you select text

Use sign tools after editing PDF

When you edit a PDF, Acrobat now displays the option to Request E-signatures, and Fill & Sign tools in addition to the Organize Pages tool as the next action you might want to take in the edit properties panel on the right.

Use the Sign tools prompt after editing a document

Request signatures banner when you exit the sign workflow

In Acrobat, if you exit the sign workflow midway to return to the viewer, Acrobat displays a banner asking if you want to send the document for e-signing.

Sign prompt

  • Selecting the Learn how to use button takes ypu to the respective help article for Request Signatures.
  • Selecting the Request e-signatures button opens the Add signer dialog in the Fill & Sign tool.

To increase discovery and awareness of Acrobat’s Web and Mobile offerings, Acrobat desktop now displays the following tools.

Note:

This feature is rolled out as an experiment and is not available to all users.

Use the apps from the Waffle menu

Select the waffle menu in the top-right corner of Acrobat to see the list of apps you can use. A description of Acrobat apps has been included to communicate the key functionality of the apps.

Acrobat apps from the waffle menu

High value action cards on the Home page

Acrobat now displays a card on the Home page to enable the browser extension.

Use Acrobat extension in Chrome browser
Use Acrobat extension in Chrome browser

Option to install the Adobe Scan app from Scans

Also, when you select Scans on the left pane, Acrobat displays the QR code to install the Adobe Scan app.

Install the Scan app

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