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Acrobat DC with Adobe Document Cloud is the complete PDF
solution for working anywhere with your most important
documents. All-new Acrobat DC is totally reimagined with a
simple user experience. The new Tool Center offers quick
access to the tools you use most, while elegant new tool
experiences work consistently across desktop, web, and
mobile – including touch enabled devices.
What's new and changed
Tabbed interface for multiple PDFs viewing
Listing of tools in Tools Center by categories
Improved Home View – preview, location, and tools for a recent file
New interface for Combine Files tool
Show recent files in the custom open dialog box
New and improved experience for Sticky Note
For a list of new features introduced in the previous releases of Acrobat
DC 2015, see New features summary | Acrobat DC 2015 (July and April
releases).
User Interface Enhancements
Tabbed interface for multiple PDFs viewing
Opening multiple PDFs in the same session now open the PDFs as tabs in the
same application window. You can switch among the tabs from the top – tab
name shows the name of the file opened in the tab. A previous button and a
next button are displayed towards right to navigate through document tabs
when the number of documents are high and don’t fit the document view.
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Acrobat auto resizes tabs when the documents don’t fit in the view window. All
the opened files are now listed towards the bottom of the Window menu. To
switch to a particular opened document, either you can click the tab for the
doc or choose its filename from the Window menu.
By default, the tabbed interface is ON. To enable the single
document interface, clear the checkbox for the preference Preferences > General > Open documents as new tabs in the
same window (requires restart). Restart Acrobat.
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Listing of tools in Tools Center by
categories
To help you navigate and discover tools faster and more efficiently, Acrobat
now lists tools in Tools center by categories. Tools related to similar
functionalities and workflows are categorized together.
Note: A new custom tool is displayed in the Customize category, and all
third-party plug-ins are displayed in a new category named Add-ons.
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Improved Home View – preview, location,
and tools for a recent file
When you click a filename in the recent file list, a details panel appears on the
right showing a thumbnail preview of the file along with frequently used tools.
For local files, you can click the location to open the folder in Explorer. You
cannot open the location if it’s Adobe Document Cloud or Dropbox.
The Remove from Recent option allows you to selectively remove files from
the Recent file list.
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New interface for Combine Files tool
The Combine Files tool now has a new simplified user interface. The new
interface makes it easy for you to quickly combine files - add files,
reorder/delete pages, preview a file, expand/collapse pages in a file, and
combine them into one. You can also use the overlay tools to quickly delete
pages. It now works better using touch gestures.
Hovering/clicking a file’s thumbnail
shows the actions – delete the file,
preview it, or expand the pages.
To collapse an expanded file, click
the icon on its first page thumbnail.
For more information, see Combine or merge files into single PDF.
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Show recent files in the custom open dialog
box
You can now search and select one of your recent files in a custom open
dialog box. The dialog box now has the Recent option in the File List and a
search box at the top.
Note: The Recent files in the dialog box are supported only for PDFs. The
files are displayed using list view. Thumbnail view and multi-file select are not
supported yet.
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New and improved experience for Sticky
Note
It has now got a new look & feel, and a better reply experience.
A new preference on Mac to define the no
document open state
Currently, Acrobat shows the Home screen even when no document is open.
A new preference is added (Preferences > General) to switch off this behavior
- Show Home screen when all documents are closed.
If you clear the preference, the Home screen is not displayed when no
document is open.
New keyboard shortcuts to close Acrobat window:
When a single document is open, press CMD+W.
To close all Acrobat windows, press CMD+W+F4+Func.
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Send for Signature
Prepare and send multiple documents for
signature
Previously, for multiple documents, the Send for Signature feature didn't allow
you to add form fields using the Prepare Form option. You had to open each
document, add the fields, and then add the documents to the file list.
Now, the Prepare Form option is enabled for multiple documents. After adding
the documents to the file list, if you initiate Prepare Form, the documents are
converted into PDFs and combined into a single file. The combined file is
opened for you to add appropriate form-specific fields. Once you are done,
you can send the doc for signature.
For more information, see Send PDF documents for signature.
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3D and Security
Disable auto play for 3D objects
Because the dynamic nature of 3D provides the potential for it to be subject to
security vulnerabilities, several new changes have been introduced:
Auto-play of 3D content is disabled by default.
The user interface has a new checkbox at Edit > Preferences > 3D &
Multimedia > Enable 3D Content.
3D content has been integrated into the Trust Framework so that it’s
possible to display 3D content for trusted content even when 3D is
disabled.
For more information, see Enable 3D content in PDF.
Create PDF
Convert creative app formats to PDF using
Adobe Document Cloud CreatePDF service
You can now easily convert Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Adobe Illustrator (AI),
and Adobe InDesign (INDD) files to PDF from within Acrobat using the Adobe
Document Cloud CreatePDF service. When you choose any of these file
formats for conversion, an asynchronous conversion is started and a
progress bar is displayed. The file is uploaded to Document Cloud, converted
into a PDF, and then the PDF is downloaded and opened in Acrobat.
Meanwhile, you are free to continue working with Acrobat while the
conversion is taking place.
Currently, these file formats are supported only for direct PDF conversion
workflows, such as File > Create > PDF from File, Tools > Create PDF
(Single File), and drag-and-drop. Also, the conversion is supported for only
one file at a time. All other scenarios where PDF creation is a part of the
larger workflow are not supported, such as Combine, Batch Create Multiple,
Actions, etc.
Support for AutoCAD 2015 (64-bit)
Acrobat now supports AutoCAD 2015 version (64-bit). The Acrobat ribbon with
PDF creation and review related features is now available for the AutoCAD
version.
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Edit PDF
Create new list items in PDF
Acrobat now shows bulleted list and numbered list controls in the Format
panel. You can now create new list items, convert an existing paragraph to a
list item and vice-versa, and convert from one list type to another. Apart from
the default set of list items, Acrobat now also detects addition list types in
your document, if any, and shows them towards the bottom of the list pulldown menu, separated by a thin gray line.
You can also use Keyboard to add a list item. For example, before a
paragraph, you can type number ‘a’ followed by the closing parenthesis ‘)’
and then add one space. It adds a numbered list starting with “a)”.
Note: Acrobat detects paragraph and lists separately. Both paragraph and list
may appear in the same bounding box while editing, however, after you save
or save as the changed file and reopen it, the paragraph and list items are
displayed in separate bounding boxes.
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Support for text and non-text annotations
during editing
Several enhancements have been made for annotations spread across text
boxes during editing:
Highlights and other text-based annotations now work seamlessly while
editing text. The annotations are bound to the text during editing, which
reflows, expands or contracts, based on the editing done in and around
them. If the text with the annotation is deleted, the annotation is deleted
as well.
Supported annotation types: Link, Replace text, Highlight, Underline,
Strikeout, Caret, and Redact annotation.
Page level annotations like Sticky note and typed written text can be
selected, moved (by dragging), and modified.
All the supported annotations can be deleted in editing by right-click
context menu.
If a bounding box is moved/scaled/resized, annotations are adjusted
automatically. If a bounding box is deleted, annotations get deleted as
well.
Improvements around scanned document
editing
You can now edit documents with outlined text (text without fonts) with
high fidelity.
The Revert to Image and the Convert to Text options in the right panel are
now sticky, which means that Acrobat now remembers the option chosen
by you and doesn’t default to the scanned document editing mode.
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Enhance Scans
Improvements to Enhance Camera Image tool
Improved Boundary detection for camera images
Accuracy of the boundary detection for camera images is further refined and improved. See
the before and after example below.
Example: Before and After
Improved perspective correction for camera
images
Perspective correction for camera images is further improved to reduce roughness around
text and non-text areas. See a few before and after examples below.
Example 1: Before and After
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Example 2: Before and After
Improved readability and sharpness of text for camera images
The cleanup mechanism for camera images is now enhanced to improve readability and
sharpness of text in the images. See a few before and after examples below.
Example 1: Before and After
Example 2: Before and After
Export PDF
Improvements in export to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Several enhancements have been made to the export functionality. Below are a few before and
after examples of the improvements.
Better reconstruction of scanned borderless tables
Correct reconstruction of text highlight
Better automatic recognition of titles
Subscript and superscript support for tabular content
Better header detection
Reduction in number of unnecessary columns created
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Correct formatting for numbers in Excel
Merge tables spread over multiple pages under single header
Correct reconstruction of content orientation in cells
Correct reconstruction of indents in cells
Additional enhancements
Allow Acrobat DC installation without removing existing Acrobat 10.x on a computer
Now Adobe Acrobat DC can co-exist with Adobe Acrobat X (10.x) upon installation. Acrobat DC installs in a
different folder and does not uninstall Adobe Acrobat X.
• The components such as Adobe PDF Printer, PDFMakers (MS Office, browsers, etc.) and AcroPDF
(PDFViewer in browsers) cannot co-exist due to their interaction with third-party applications.
Therefore, only the latest version-specific components are available in the co-existence environment.
• Acrobat features that require a 3rd party hooks will either provide a message to the user or run using
Acrobat DC hooks.
A new preference to enable PDF thumbnail previews in Windows explorer
In the April 2015 release of Acrobat/Reader DC, the PDF Shell component was removed due to which you
couldn’t see the thumbnails of PDF documents in explorer. To allow you to see the thumbnails again, a new
user preference is added for both Acrobat/Reader DC (32-bit machines only) - Preferences > General >
Enable PDF thumbnail previews in Windows Explorer . By default, the option is OFF. Also, the preference is
enterprise tunable.
A new OCR SDK
A new version of OCR library has been integrated with Acrobat DC.
VoiceOver Enhancements for table support
VoiceOver now announces number of rows and columns for tables. It also announces cell co-ordinates.
Ability to select text/images on touch devices while the hand pointer is on
When working on touch devices using a mouse, you can now select text/images when the hand pointer is on
- without switching to the selection pointer. Hover over text for a few seconds and the hand pointer will
change into an I-beam cursor using which you can select text.
Accessibility support for Home view
Keyboard navigation and High Contrast are now fully supported for all workflows in the Home view, including
My Computers, SharePoint and Dropbox connectors, and Document Cloud storage.
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Accessibility support for custom open/save dialog
Keyboard navigation and High Contrast are now fully supported in the custom open/save dialog box.
Fill & Sign interface available in addition languages
The Fill & Sign user interface is now available in the following additional languages:
• Chinese Simplified
• Chinese Traditional
• Korean
• Czech
• Hungarian
• Polish
• Russian Ukrainian
• Turkish
• Slovak
• Slovenian
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