Adobe Acrobat Reader For Android
Vida Hubbert
since two days I discovered a problem with the Adobe Reader. The newest version does not save changes in PDF documents on Android. I tried it with all of my smartphones. On iOS it works perfectly. But it does generally not work on Android. Any changes I make in a pdf on Android are not in my document cloud oder dropbox when I close the app although I have clicked on the blue "Save" button after making changes.
I'm having this problem and wondering if a fix has been determined. I'm on Samsung tablet. It seems like I have problems with larger PDF documents (over 2mb). I've been unable to narrow it down more than that. I originally thought it may have been a wifi connection issue but I was able to verify that wasn't the problem recently. Like other here, I've lost hours of work marking a document for others to update records. It's very frustrating.
I'm having the same issue. Latest version of Acrobat running on the latest version of Android, and it's happening with all PDFs. This is clearly a common bug, which I hope will be addressed with greater concern by Adobe soon.
Hi everyone, it is saving your data but not back to the original. when you fill and sign then get out of it, the one in your Home>Recent is the one that has been changed. The one in your Files>This Device is the original. I don't know why Adobe is not saving back to the original location, it is very frustrating.
Maybe they are doing it so we don't overwrite the original? Either way it is an annoying "improvement" that I'd like to see an option to put back. I just want to open the email, download the PDF, sign it, and upload to a reply email to the original. That's enough steps on a mobile, I don't need anymore needless steps.
I am facing the same problem for quite a long time. Previously, it was very smooth to open any pdf files in my android tab from cloud storage like dropbox, etc., make annotations, and be automatically saved in the cloud. The exact original file! When I opened it from my PC, the changes or annotations were there. Sadly, now it is no longer work. Please fix this as soon as possible.
I've been annotating pdfs of my textbooks and it just stopped syncing up to Onedrive sometime over the past 3 days. I didn't even realize it until I reopened an immunology book I had been studying for hours and 3 chapters worth of notes were just gone! I remember that adobe used to sync so seamlessly with Dropbox back in the day but when I tried it out, it was just as unstable. Google Drive as well. I thought that maybe Adobe's own cloud service should work properly but it won't even save local copies for when I'm reading in the subway and will just mess up if I don't have signal. I have no idea what you did to this application but it is barely functional on an android tablet.
Is there at least a way to get to the cache data to see if I can save a lost file? It must have been storing the annotations somewhere. Providing some interface to confirm that a file has been synced or not would go a long way to making this mess not seem so capricious and sudden at the very least. Some way to force a sync would be great as well. Even if you can't fix the core functionality, at least the program might be usable. At this point, I have to waste time trying to find an alternative editor.
I tried sharing and sending it to onedrive manually and saw an error notification saying that onedrive could not prepare file for upload. Apparently, the file eventually did go through however so at least there is SOME way of saving my work. I've also tried clearing cache and data but that still didn't trigger auto syncing. The only thing that has worked so far is to "share" and "send a copy",
Exact same issue here, Android Galaxy Tab 7, Adobe Pro and One Drive except I am losing signed documents for my business. One document will upload just fine, next will sit in the tablet cache and wont upload. Tablet has wifi. Adobe this has clearly been going on for minimum 4 years.
At least there should be a visible Save button or shortcut like the PC, so we can manually and frequently save PDFs each time after annotation. I hope Adobe considers it as a decent additional feature.
I just found this solution by Kiroga5FAC helpful -- Press the Share button the top right. The file is saved and updated on Onedrive whether or not you go on with sharing the file. You can also back up the file on Google Drive and other outlets here.
I just signed up for the Adobe Acrobat DC Pro application, and have installed the related mobile application on my Android device. Both the sales page and the salesperson I spoke with told me I could edit PDFs on my Android device. However, now that I have it installed, I only see Create PDF and Export PDF functions...no edit. How do I edit the text for PDFs I create on my android device?
Currently, there is no option to edit PDF using Acrobat Reader on Android. Editing is only possible with Acrobat Reader app only on iPad not even on iPhone. And is possible using Acrobat on Laptop/Desktop.
What do you mean" what they told you"?? It's on the damn website! I'm sorry but that's B.S. I just paid $16 a month and the told me same thing on their website. Last time I checked that was called "Bait and switch"! I didn't know we were dealing with used car salesmen here! I'm going to start a forum on this so no one else takes it in rear! ANDROID USERS, STAY AWAY!!
What I meant is, if our website advertises that Adobe Reader on Android devices has the capability of editing PDF's, help us with the reference and I would like to get that corrected. Since that is not possible on Android device.
All you can have access to Export PDF service (Using which you can export PDF files to different formats), Create PDF service (using which you can convert different file formats to PDF format), Organise Pages Service (using which you can delete, rotate and arrange pages in a PDF file).
I would also like to echo the statements of previous posters. I have an Acrobat Pro DC monthly subscription and am currently unable to reach a Windows/iOS desktop or laptop. I'm not a programmer by any means but given the fact that the full extent of the desktop application is available on (some) iPads and no other mobile device is just utter nonesense. It's not as if current smartphones are incapable of processing the files to the fullest extent of the PC features. Heck, I'd be willing to bet that a years old PC with the latest version of the app can do so. At the very least, and especially given Adobe's shift towards the cloud, there should be an online full-featured version available to all subscribers.
I believe you are an honourable rep for Adobe, Tariq. I can also very much understand Jeromen's disappointment. If the website wording is what Mark shared, I would definitely agree it is misleading about what you can do with either subscription (Acrobat DC or PDFPack) on a particular mobile device.
I'm going to assume this outcome is not deliberate on Adobe's part. After all, what good does it do to upset paying customers the way Jaromen is? It would be great to learn that he and any other Android users received a partial or complete refund of their subscriptions. And I think it's worth pointing out that Adobe's decision to offer month-to-month subs at least with DC nicely limits the liability and the damage, making such refunds much simpler and I really hope much easier.
Full disclosure: I don't work for Adobe or own any Adobe stock. Presently I use Acrobat XI standalone on Windows, and have used earlier versions dating back to 4.0 if memory serves me correctly. I actually don't like the programming directions Acrobat DC moved towards in the last couple of years, but since version XI recently lost its official security updates support, I imagine I'll be forced to come along into the DC subscription world shortly.
Anyway... This happens to be a momentous day for me. Yesterday on ML King Day in the USA, Microsoft techs using the latest remote computing techniques tried for hours (again) to clean up various corruptions in my Windows 10 OS. They failed. So after 35 years(!) of endless struggles with bugs in successive versions of DOS and Windows (except for periods of blessed relief in the XP era), I'm putting my eyes on a different prize (a little Civil Rights Era talk, that!), or to put it another way I'm filling for a divorce from MS. No more Windows PCs, laptops or other devices in my future, if I have anything to say about it!
This seems a feasible step to take because I have increasingly come to appreciate and rely on Android phones and pads. Now that Android N (Nougat, aka version 7.x) is appearing on many more devices, true windowing of apps has at last reached the masses, so to speak. This resembled the key moment for Windows back in 1991 when Bill Gates finally managed to roll out a somewhat stable version (the famous 3.11) that could more or less reliably switch dynamically between programmes without closing anything down (or crashing more than just some of the time!). It wasn't particularly robust, but despite lingering problems it revolutionised user experience at a price point far below that of Apple machines, while offering far greater diversity of hardware and accessories. I believe we have just now reached a similar breakout point for Android N+, the difference being some version of Android is already deployed on literally billions of devices, most of them smartphones. That's a whole lot better situation than Bill Gates and MS faced 25+ years ago, both economically and otherwise for Windows and independent software developers like Adobe!
Why didn't I just drop MS for its old sparring partner Apple? Well, I did get an iPod Touch awhile ago just to keep abreast of iOS and its users, but can't say I'm personally attracted in that direction. Apple at its core (sorry about the pun) is just too directive, even authoritarian for my sensibilities. It was always thus under founder Steve Jobs, and still remains so. I made a choice way back in 1983 to go PC rather than Mac. I don't regret my choice, and nothing has happened in the Apple universe to convince me to jump back on that track now -- if only because of the high costs Apple imposes for the honour of being in their hard.
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