Today, there are a host of third-party programs that create or manipulate PDF, such as Ghostscript, Foxit, and Nitro PDF. This in turn has led to *many more competitors for Adobe Acrobat, both free and commercial.

By the late 1990s PDF had become the de facto standard, and the others had become largely historical footnotes.

Since the early 1990s, the Acrobat product had several competitors who each used their own document formats, such as:

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, a free client version with the ability to print, sign, and annotate.Īdobe Labs has also produced the Adobe Acrobat Cleaner Tool to remove previous or corrupted installations of Acrobat.

Adobe Acrobat 2020, the last version sold through one-time perpetual license, but without cloud features.

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, includes the ability to convert scanned documents and add media files.

Adobe Acrobat DC, sold only by subscription through Adobe Document Cloud with mobile app support.

Between versions 3 and 5, the Standard and Professional versions were one unified product simply called Adobe Acrobat.Īs of June 2020, the main members of the Adobe Acrobat family are:

This has caused confusion over which product a user has or needs to obtain.

3.2 Specific Features for Arabic and Hebrew languagesĪdobe has reorganized the products in the Acrobat family over the years by splitting, merging, or replacing applications.

3 Internationalization and localization.

Acrobat reader standard