Specification Sheet

Adobe Acrobat DC and Adobe Acrobat 2020 Product Comparison
Adobe Acrobat DC and Adobe Acrobat 2020
Industry-leading PDF solutions for desktop, mobile, and web
Empower your teams to work from anywhere. Adobe Acrobat DC makes it easy to keep your
workforce connected and productive while streamlining IT deployment and management
Why upgrade to subscription?
Acrobat Pro DC subscription gives
you so much more than the latest
desktop soware. Designed for
today’s multidevice world, Acrobat
DC lets users create, convert, edit,
protect, sign, share, and track PDFs
with smart, integrated tools across
your computer, mobile device,
and web browser while geing
new and updated features as they
become available. Additionally,
you’ll deploy and manage with
easedeploy apps and updates
centrally or let users self-install.
Assign, reassign, remove, and track
licenses with just a few clicks in
the web-based Admin Console.
And deliver secure remote access
to Acrobat DC with virtualization
support for named user licensing.
Acrobat
Standard 2017
(perpetual)
Acrobat Pro
2017
(perpetual)
Acrobat
Standard 2020
(perpetual)
Acrobat Pro
2020
(perpetual)
Acrobat Pro DC
(subscription)
Manage and interact with PDFs
View, interact with, and comment on PDF content from your computer, mobile device, or web browser
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Access a list of documents you need to view, review, or sign along with detailed information about the task
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Get alerts across devices when others view, review, or sign documentsor request actions from you
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Store, manage, and share files online with instant access to recently viewed files across devices o o o o
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Access, edit, and store PDFs in your Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive accounts o o o o
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Open multiple PDFs in a single window with tabbed viewing
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Customize your Acrobat experience by choosing the default light theme or the new dark theme
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Be more productive on the latest touch-enabled devices including Surface Pro, iPad, and Android tablets
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Make the most of the Touch Bar built into MacBook Pro
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Compare two versions of a PDF using an easy-to-scan results summary showing all the differences
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Manage all your work from the Home viewyour single place to organize, manage, and search for all your PDFs
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Create and protect PDFs
Create PDFs using your computer, mobile device, or web browser
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Create high-quality, protected PDFs in Microsoft Office for Mac and Office 365 online apps
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Create, combine, and convert PDF files from your SharePoint or OneDrive toolbar
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Turn Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Illustrator (AI), or InDesign (INDD) files into PDFs
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Create PDFs from any application that prints
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Convert documents and images to PDFs
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Create, protect, and send PDFs in popular Microsoft Office desktop apps for Windows
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Combine multiple documents and file types into one PDF file
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Convert web pages to interactive PDFs, complete with links
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Prevent others from copying, editing, or printing sensitive information in PDFs
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Create password-protected PDFs
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Convert or validate PDFs for compliance with ISO standards like PDF/A or PDF/X
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Create and fix PDFs to meet accessibility standards for people with disabilities o o
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Prepare PDFs consistently with guided actions
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Edit and convert PDFs
Convert PDFs to other file formats from your computer, mobile device, or web browser
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Edit text and images, and organize pages in a PDF on iPhone, iPad, Android tablet, or Chromebook with Android support
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Edit text and images in a PDF with full-page paragraph reflow from your desktop
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Convert PDFs to editable Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with formatting accuracy
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o Contains a portion of the capability