What Is Adobe Acrobat
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Adobe Acrobat was founded back in 1993 and the purpose of Adobe was to create digital documents. The Adobe software is used to create, view, print, manipulate, and manage any files that are in a portable document format or PDF. Adobe also has the capabilities of importing any popular documents or images and saving the image or document as a PDF as well. Other functions that Adobe can perform include importing information from websites, windows clipboard, and scanners. The Adobe family currently consists of eight different types of software and they are Send, Acrobat XI Pro, PDF Pack, Acrobat XI Standard, Acrobat.com, Reader XI, EchoSign, and FormsCentral.
The Features Of Adobe
Adobe software has many different features that it offers. The main and most common features that the Adobe software offers are converting word to PDF, file merging into one PDF, converting powerpoints to PDF, Filling out and signing any forms, sending and tracking files online, reviewing and commenting, the ability to compare files, the creation of PDF passwords and permissions, the ability to convert forms online to fillable PDFs conversions, and much more.
The Pros And Cons Of Adobe
The pros of the Adobe software is that this software has the ability to pass files directly between other Adobe software.
The software has a vast variety of tools available that allows the user to edit any PDF documents directly. Adobe is capable of exporting documents and that are in different formats. Adobe also accepts PDF documents as a cross platform document. Adobe also has the capability to extract any art or text and turn it into a PDF document. Surprisingly Adobe does have some cons but they are very few. The first con when it comes to using Adobe is that it can be difficult to navigate through the software sometimes. If you do not have the pro version of Adobe the reader version may be lacking some tools that you may need. The last con to using the Adobe software is that sometimes the individual may not understand how to use all of the various PDF versions.
Adobe is one of the most versatile software on the market. It can be used in a variety of different settings and in a variety of different ways. The software does not only assist in turning documents into PDF form but it also allows you to edit documents that are already in PDF form. The software also allows for the e-signing of documents. The ability to e-sign documents gives individuals the ability to comfortably sign contracts or any other documents right from the comfort of their home or office.