Adobe Acrobat Reader
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Adobe Acrobat Pro DC running on Windows 8. Other editions of Acrobat DC (Standard and Reader) feature a similar interface.
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| Developer(s) | Adobe Systems | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Initial release | June 15, 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux,Android, iOS, BlackBerry Tablet OS, BlackBerry 10, Windows Phone | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Type | Desktop publishing | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Windows, continuous track | 17.012.20093 / August 8, 2017 |
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| Windows, classic track | 15.006.30352 / August 8, 2017 |
| OS X, continuous track | 17.012.20093 / August 8, 2017 |
| OS X, classic track | 15.006.30352 / August 8, 2017 |
| Android | 17.0 / January 24, 2017 |
| iOS | 17.01.31 / January 26, 2017 |
| Windows, UWP, PC | 3.1 / September 29, 2014 |
| Windows, UWP, mobile | 16.0.137027 / February 3, 2016 |
| Linux | 9.5.5 / May 14, 2013 |
Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and Web services developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).
The family comprises Acrobat Reader (formerly Adobe Reader), Acrobat (formerly Acrobat Exchange) and Acrobat.com. The basic Acrobat Reader, available for several desktop and mobile platforms, is freeware; it supports viewing, printing and annotating of PDF files. Additional, "Premium", services are available for reader on paid subscription. The commercial proprietary Acrobat, available for Microsoft Windows and macOS only, can also create, edit, convert, digitally sign, encrypt, export and publish PDF files. Acrobat.com complements the family with a variety of enterprise content management and file hosting services.
Since the early 1990s the Acrobat product has had several competitors, some of which used their own document formats, such as:
Adobe also allows third parties to develop Acrobat plug-ins, which can add extra functions to the Acrobat program.
Adobe has changed the names of the products of the Acrobat set several times, also dividing, merging, or discontinuing products. Initially, the name "Acrobat" was used as the parent name of a set of products which included Acrobat Reader, Acrobat Exchange and Acrobat Distiller. Over time, Acrobat Reader became Reader; and the name Acrobat Exchange was simplified to Acrobat. Between versions 3 and 5, Standard and Professional versions were one product known simply as Acrobat.
In April 2015, Adobe introduced the Adobe "Document Cloud," along with the first of several applications with "DC" at the end of the name. One of the main goals was to have all of a user's PDFs available on any of the user's devices, such as editing a PDF on an iPad and then later retrieving it on a PC. As of October, 2015, the "Document Cloud" also includes integration with Dropbox and includes electronic signature improvements, although at least some features require a subscription.
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