Adobe Acrobat Professional Versions

[Eri Pfaff]

Iam trying to reinstall my product Adobe Acrobat DC Pro, bought in 2020. My license says I have Acrobat Professional, however on the web there is a Acrobat Pro 2020 installer ( -install/kb/acrobat-2020-downloads.html), the question is, first, are these products the same? My version of the product is a perpetuallifetime license.

More importantly, I would like to have the same product, but for 64-bit machine that I have (the installer is for 32-bit as if we are in somewhere in 2000s), for better performance. I found this -64-bit-installer.html here, but this version (even though sounds the same) turns out that I cannot register with the license I bought. Is there a 64-bit installer that could be used with my perpetual license? If not, will or might it be available in the near future? And if so, what can I do to finally have 64-bit version of professional lifetime license Adobe Acrobat Professional?

Thanks! It is true that for most of my needs 32-bit version is fine, but there are situations when you would want an even faster software. I am, however, not sure to what extent it would really be faster just based on this factor alone. It is just puzzling that in 2023 when most other companies have come up with and are offering 64-bit versions, Adobe is still having it only for cloud users or whatnot. This is afterall some over 100Bn company.

No, they are not the same, though they are similar. The perpetual license versions of Acrobat are effectively a frozen version of Acrobat. Getting new features will be a paid upgrade, as for other perpetual apps. 64-bit Acrobat is a new feature. There is no sign there will EVER be another perpetual Acrobat, we don't know. But why do you care about 64-bit Acrobat. It has no advantages. Performance is absolutely identical, I don't know where the myth that 64-bit apps run faster comes from.

What better performance do you expect from a 64-bit version? There's no such thing in 99 % of the cases since working with most of the PDF files won't even scratch on the memory boundaries of what a 32 bit application can offer. If you're not dealing with ultra complex PDFs with thousands of pages, layers or objects you're still fine with 32 bit.

But it isn't faster. That's not why you might want 64-bit. There's a general belief that 64-bit must be faster because marketing people use this to sell upgrades (when they have nothing else to say). 64-bit Acrobat goes at exactly the same speed as 32-bit, there is no reason why it could possibly be faster. As a programmer I can say, things don't work that way.

What you are looking for is a comparison between Adobe Acrobat DC Pro and Standard - the 2017 is just a version associated with Acrobat DC. "DC" does not mean software as a service, or a cloud service or something else. Acrobat DC is desktop software.

I have a similar question - I'm trying to determine the difference between Adobe Acrobat DC Pro 2017 vs Adobe Acrobat 2017. I realize one is subscription and one is perpetual, but do we need to change the installer or will any of our integration change? We are currently using Adobe Acrobat DC Pro 2017. I notice they are listed separately in the catalog, but when I try to compare versions, it is not listed.

It is somewhat challenging to find this information clearly and all in one place, plus a number of Adobe Forums posters have had similar questions, so I put together this guide which hopefully helps explain and compare most of the major differences between the various Acrobat options:

After a bit of searching I think the biggest difference is that Acrobat 2017 is stand-alone and Acrobat DC is subscription. Acrobat 2017 will probably not get the continuous updates of the DC version.

Adobe always felt they had to differentiate versions of their Acrobat editor, offering professional versions for the pre-press, printing, and other heavy duty industries, and watered-down ones, aimed at businesses and corporations, and often only available on Windows. They were aptly called Acrobat Pro, Standard, Elements, 3D, Suite, etcetera.

After a series of regular version numbers from 1 to 9, followed by the roman X (version 10) and XI (version 11), the DC versions were introduced, together with a subscription based license, sporting a totally new interface, and with a new numbering scheme. From 2015 onwards, the technical version number indicates the year of issue, starting from 15 (hence skipping the numbers 12, 13, and 14). And the Adobe Reader is called Adobe Acrobat Reader again, because people were - finally - used to downloading Acrobat to view PDFs...

From that moment on, the subscription versions were simply branded Adobe Acrobat DC, without any number because users shouldn't worry about that (but they definitely carry the version number 15, 16, or 17, and now even 18). And although the DC moniker is promotionally meant to fiercely refer to the Document Cloud subscription offerings, Adobe internally calls them DC Continuous, versus their DC Classic perpetually licensed alternates.

All the perpetual versions (from 2015 on, and even X and XI) have always been technically updated during recent years. Such maintenance updates offer no new key features, so they don't get a new version number (just a decimal "dot" addition). However, some new technologies are implemented in older versions as a read only addition (to offer backward compatibility), but without the option to edit them

I checked and I couldn't find any official statement of discontinuation of selling Acrobat 2017. Adobe will continue to sell Acrobat 2017 and it is correct the End of Support date for the Product version would be 6/6/2022. Reference link All Apps Help Products and technical support periods

That's it! You now have another instance of Acrobat running. This is helpful when sending say 4 very large files to 4 different printers all at the same time. You can have each instance of acrobat sending 4 different large documents to 4 different printers simultaneously.

Another possibility, if you have enabled the option to open documents as new tabs in the same window, and provided you have several such open tabs, is to drag one of the tabs out of the Acrobat window using your mouse. A new instance of Acrobat will then be created, containg that tab.

A bit a longer answer: Acrobat is not set up to run in multiple instances. What you can do, and this is now also sanctioned and supported by Adobe, is running Reader with the same major version number (Acrobat XI and Reader XI, or Acrobat X and Reader X).

If you happen to be on Mac, it is not sanctioned officially by Adobe, but if you know what you are doing, you can run different versions of Acrobat concurrently; I have a development where for changing the document, JavaScript has to be off, but for testing it has to be on. So, I run Acrobat 7 with JavaScript deactivated and Acrobat 9 or XI with active JavaScript, and for displaying important documentation, I have Reader XI active as well.

More than just a tool to view PDF files, Adobe's Acrobat 8.0 Professional is a full-fledged suite for creating PDFs for Web, print and other applications. Released in 2007, it includes tools to combine PDFs together, index them and even to do optical character recognition to convert scanned page images into editable text files. Adobe also included its LiveCycle Designer program to offer the ability to create complicated forms in PDF format.

The Windows version of Acrobat 8.0 Pro needs a computer with a Pentium III processor or its equivalent running at any speed. Adobe requires the computer to have at least 256MB of RAM, but recommends twice that -- 512MB. Macs need the same memory as Windows computers, and can run Acrobat Pro 8.0 on G3, G4, G5 or Intel processors.

Windows users need a CD-ROM drive to install Acrobat, while the Mac version comes on a DVD-ROM. Both platforms have to be configured to support a screen resolution of 1024-by-768 pixels. While the Windows version requires 860MB of hard disk space -- although Adobe recommends setting aside an additional 460MB of cache space -- the Mac version fits in 1060MB.

On the Mac, Acrobat 8.0 Pro requires Mac OS X. Adobe certifies the program to run under version 10.4.3, specifically. The Windows version can run on Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP or Windows Vista. It supports 64-bit versions of every operating system except Windows 2000, as well.

LiveCycle Designer 8 only runs on Windows -- it's not included in the Mac version of Adobe Acrobat Professional 8. Adobe certifies it to run on Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, and the tablet, home and professional versions of Windows XP. It requires a Pentium III processor running at 450 MHz or faster.

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I can't be the only person who imagined the office of the future, free from the confines of the eight and a half by eleven sheet (or A4, for my international friends), would have long since arrived. Instead, we've managed to land in an intermediate state of not paperless, but less paper.

Between a trusty scanner, email and various other communication tools, and getting really good at organizing my digital archives, I'm not totally unhappy with where we are today. And I do occasionally admit to reading a paper book, sending a postcard, or (gasp) printing something off to give to someone else.

Until the world moves a little further from paper, print-ready file formats will continue to permeate our digital landscape as well. And, love it or hate it, PDF, the "portable document format," seems to be the go-to format for creating and sharing print-ready files, as well as archiving files that originated as print.

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