Adobe Reader for Mac is an essential application for reading, printing, marking up, and commenting on PDF files.

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Adobe Reader for Mac is an essential application for reading, printing, marking up, and commenting on PDF files. Good functionality: With Adobe Reader for Mac, you can do more than just view. For instructions, see Install an older version of Adobe Reader on Mac OS. When the file appears at the bottom of the browser, click the file. (If you don't see the file, choose Downloads from the Chrome menu.).

Pros

Good functionality: With Adobe Reader for Mac, you can do more than just view PDF files -- you can edit them as well, adding text and placing check marks and initials. It also lets you submit forms created with fillable form fields. This is especially helpful since nowadays many forms that you download from the Internet require you to use it to fill in the blanks.

Supports signatures: With this app you can add your signature onto files. This is an especially useful feature when you need to fill in and return a form or sign a document, but you don't have a working printer close by. You can choose to either type your signature, import a picture of your signature, or draw it using a mouse or trackpad.

Re: I can't access some of my PDF files because they haven't been replaced with the proper documents richardb88842476 Aug 29, 2017 10:24 AM ( in response to Rave ) I kind of thought that the basic idea of PDF was so that multiple platforms can all view the documents. Adobe® Reader® is the free, trusted leader for reliably viewing and interacting with PDF documents across platforms and devices. Adobe Reader Touch has been specially designed for the new Windows 8 Touch user interface to give you a great experience working with PDF documents on your Windows 8 Tablet. Key Features Adobe Reader Mac performs the same function as Windows version. Thus, it gives you the ability to open PDF files directly on the interface. It is easy to use and all you have to do is to import the file into the interface and it does the rest. Re: I can't access some of my PDF files because they haven't been replaced with the proper documents richardb88842476 Aug 29, 2017 10:24 AM ( in response to Rave ) I kind of thought that the basic idea of PDF was so that multiple platforms can all view the documents.

Streamlined interface: Although the amount of features is impressive for a free application, the interface is clearly laid out and easy to navigate.

Reliable: It opens and displays files of all sizes, even large ones with many detailed images, quickly and smoothly. We have not experienced any technical glitches. Also, updates are released regularly.

Cons

Some advanced features require subscription: Adobe Reader doesn't have a paid version. Instead, if you want to take advantage of some of the more advanced features, you must sign up for a monthly subscription that starts at $1.99 a month. Two of these advanced features are emailing files directly from the application, and converting PDF files to other formats, including to Word.

Bottom Line

Adobe Reader proves to be the most functional, free PDF reader and editor available. Admittedly, Preview for Mac does share some of the features available on Adobe Reader, but not all of them. Besides, most fillable forms that you download from the Internet were originally created using other Adobe products and therefore must be filled out using Adobe Reader. This is a must-have application for all Mac users.

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Interact with PDFs

• View and interact with all types of PDF content
• New: Work on touch-enabled devices
• New: Store and share files online with instant access to recently viewed files
• New: Access and store files in your Box, Dropbox, and Microsoft OneDrive accounts
• New: Send, track, and confirm document delivery electronically

Create PDFs

• Convert documents and images to PDF files
• Create PDFs from any application that prints
• Create, protect, and send PDFs in popular Microsoft Office apps for Windows
• Combine multiple documents in one PDF
• Convert web pages to interactive PDFs, complete with links
• Prevent others from copying or editing information in PDFs
• Create a password-protected PDF
• Turn scanned documents into searchable PDFs with selectable text
• New: Recognize text in scans, and then preview and correct suspect errors with a side-by-side view
• New: Automatically fix photos of documents to remove backgrounds and adjust perspective
• New: Turn Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Illustrator (AI), or InDesign (INDD) files into PDFs from your desktop or mobile device
• Create and export PDFs on your mobile device
• New: Take advantage of Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac support
• Prepare PDFs consistently with guided actions
• Convert and validate PDFs for compliance with ISO standards like PDF/A and PDF/X
• Create technical PDFs in Microsoft Project, Visio, or Autodesk AutoCAD
• Create and validate PDFs to meet accessibility standards for people with disabilities

Edit PDFs

• New: Edit PDF text and images with full-page paragraph reflow
• New: Turn PDFs into editable Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files with improved formatting accuracy
• Convert PDFs to JPEG, TIFF, or PNG image formats
• Insert, delete, and organize pages in a PDF
• Add bookmarks, headers, numbering, and watermarks
• New: Turn scanned paper documents into instantly editable PDFs
• Automatically optimize PDFs to reduce file size
• Add audio, video, and interactive objects to PDFs
• Redact to permanently remove sensitive information in PDFs
• Preflight and prepare files for high-end print production
• Add Bates numbering to legal documents
• New: Edit text and organize pages in PDFs on your iPad
• New: Reorder, delete, or rotate PDF pages on your iOS or Android tablet

Sign and collect

• New: Fill, sign, and send forms faster using data from your autofill collection on your computer or mobile device
• Measure the distance, area, and perimeter of objects in PDFs
• New: Capture your signature with your mobile device to use across Adobe Document Cloud
• Add comments to PDFs with a highlighter, sticky notes, and more
• New: Give and get fast, clear feedback with all-New: commenting tools
• Turn paper or Word docs into fillable PDF forms
• New: Host SharePoint-based shared reviews on Office 365 sites
• Work with certificate signatures
• Collect comments from others in one PDF file
• Choose comments and export to Word
• Mark PDFs with stamps, such as “approved” or “draft”
• New: Collect e-signatures from others and track responses in real time
• Compare two versions of a document to see what’s changed
• Enhance PDF forms by adding interactivity with JavaScript

What's New:

Accessibility

• 4232082: Acrobat mappes roles to tags in the tree view by default, but not if tag name has some specific characters.
• 4195769: Read Out Loud not reading slow enough. User cannot set lesser than 150 words per minute in Reading Preferences.

Portfolio

• 4212726: Unable to save added or removed columns in a DC created Email portfolio.

Security

• 4223361: Unable to open PDF after applying password protection for some files.

Browser

• 4225014: Delay in loading pdf files in Internet explorer.

Compare

• 4225249: Compare PDFs causes a crash when comparing related PDFs, one saved from Preflight.
• 4228132: The Summary Page displays in between the compare result while navigating through the Next /Previous Change arrow, if two scanned files are compared.
• 4231258: Diff rect is not shown at proper place when files used are cropped before compare.

Forms

• 4232403: Acrobat Crashes on using ‘Prepare Form’ tool during processing of some shortcut with more than one form-PDF document open.
• 4227286: Acrobat Reader crashes on placing CMYK jpeg to an image field.
• 4224823: Mouse action up/down not working properly on Form field properties.

Preflight

• 4232061: “Verify conformance” option is returning incorrect status for PDF/X-5n compliant files.

OCR

• 4236105: Not able to run OCR properly on images having “inverted text” or colored background.

AutoCad PDF Maker

• 4232296: Unable to open dwg file in Acrobat through drag and drop or File->open and Acrobat crashes.

PDFMaker

• 4232075: Using Mail merge from Word 2016, it saves the file to .doc format first.
• 4081754: Acrobat does not capture the DATE field from the original message during conversion when MSG file attached to email opened.

Viewer

• 4237190: Acrobat crash while opening the PDF created in Live cycle designer.
• 4229000: Incorrect file location is shown for file opened from mapped network drive.
• 4229460: Cursor Co-ordinates windows scrolls down along with the PDF content scroll in continuous Scroll mode.

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SDK

• 4232040: Added support for opening password protected files via OLE.

Javascript

• 4217681: JavaScript functionality is not persistent on Mac and Win.

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Organize Pages

• 4205759: Limit on the number of page ranges that can be extracted at one time.

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