New features summary | July 2022 release of Acrobat

Acrobat

Acrobat with Adobe Document Cloud 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 Web to experience the new features and improvements.

The Acrobat Home view is modernized to provide a cleaner interface with better space utilization and a more flexible design that works better across devices. The new Home includes the following changes:

  • Acrobat's file tabs bar and the hamburger menu bar are merged with a unified global bar for easy access, uncluttered space, and improved visibility. Towards the top-right corner, Acrobat displays your login name. The search bar and the Try Now button are moved away from the file tab bar to keep it clean and usable.
  • The updated left rail displays the various locations to access your files. Adobe Document Cloud is now renamed to Adobe Cloud Storage, All Files is renamed to Your Files, and My Computer is now renamed to Your Computer.
  • The typography of the Home is updated to give it a new, cleaner look. The tool's name, description, tooltips, and icons are updated. There is much better spacing in texts and the menu to make it more touch-friendly.
Enhancements in Acrobat Home

Adobe introduces an entirely reimagined experience for Acrobat desktop users. The new experience aims to provide an intuitive and seamless experience for viewing content and performing any action on the PDF.

  • To enable the new experience, go to View > Enable new Acrobat and click Restart.
  • To disable the new experience,
    • Windows: Click the hamburger menu and choose Disable new Acrobat.
    • macOS: Go to View > Disable new Acrobat.
Notă:

Currently, the new experience is available for Acrobat (64-bit) English locale only with no third-party plug-ins installed.

The new experience includes the following user interface elements:

  • Acrobat's title bar and menu bar are now merged with a unified global bar for ease of access, uncluttered space, and improved document visibility. It provides the option to use frequently used tools and options to create PDF, find text or tools, and share your PDF.
  • document pane in the middle displays the content.
  • navigation pane on the right helps you bookmark pages, View or navigate pages, other viewing options, view file information, and all comments on the PDF.
  • quick tools pane on the left helps you add annotations, select text or objects, fill in a PDF form, and customize the tools pane to add your frequently used tool.

For more information, see New Acrobat experience.

New viewer experience

A. Frequently used PDF tools  B. Explore more tools C. Create new PDF  D. Find text or tools  E. Save PDF to cloud/Save PDF to cloud to access from multiple devices F. Print PDF  G. Share PDF as an anonymous link, link, or an email attachment H. View comments I. Bookmarks  J. Page thumbnails, layers, reflow, and accessibility  K. Page viewing options – Page number, next/previous page, rotate page, adjust page zoom level L. Customize toolbar to add more tools  M. Fill and Sign document N. Annotation tools  O. Select or Pan tool 

The new Fill & Sign experience provides a more simplified and consistent experience across devices while also ensuring the integrity of signed documents.

When you add a signature to your PDF form, Acrobat displays a message informing you that editing the form fields will not be possible after you save the form. To save a copy of your document, click the Save a read-only copy button.

Form fields flattened after saving the signed form

When you save a signed form, Acrobat displays a blue message bar at the top, prompting you for the next action you want to take on the form - Save a read-only copy or Request e-signatures.

  • To save a copy of your document, click Next action > Save a read-only copy.
  • To get signatures from others, click Next action > Request e-signatures.

Acrobat now detects if you have multiple signatures saved in your account, and prompts you to choose a signature that you would like to sync across all devices for consistency.

Sync signatures across devices

When you save a greater than 10 MB PDF file in Acrobat, Acrobat prompts you to reduce the file size if you want to share the file with others.

Prompt to reduce file size while saving a large PDF

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