Most of your questions should be answered there, especially those concerning general application use. On the other hand, the added cost of the Pro subscription makes it a good offer for those who need its advanced features.Īdobe has a number of helpful tutorials on its site to help you get started with Acrobat DC (Image credit: Adobe) SupportĪdobe is known for their great customer support, and you’re going to find a lot of information already available at the knowledge base to begin with.

Most of these features are aimed at business users with very specific needs, so most users will probably do fine without them. The Pro version adds a few new features that are exclusive to it, such as document comparison (with the ability to strip out differences), OCR (opens in new tab), redaction, and validation. There are special plans aimed at businesses, as well as students and teachers. You can subscribe to the Pro (opens in new tab) or Standard (opens in new tab) version, with the former costing around $2-3 more per month, depending on your subscription type, and you can subscribe for a full year (paid in one installment or monthly), or on a monthly basis. The tool is offered with various pricing plans that should fit most people’s needs. Available on both Windows and Mac, it features all the functionality of Acrobat DC, but for a moderate price increase, also lets you edit and search scanned files, insert multimedia into documents, and perform side-by-side comparisons between two PDFs. But you gain the ability to read, comment, scan, sign, and convert PDFs to Word, Excel, and other popular formats.Īcrobat Pro DC builds on the features of Adobe’s Acrobat Standard DC.

Acrobat DC is a full, Windows-only PDF editor and reader that requires a Creative Cloud subscription.

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