
I'll state up front that I'm not a big fan of the one-size-fits-all interfaces that span from phones to desktop displays. One of Adobe's goals with the revision of Acrobat was to make it easier to use and surface tools that people couldn't find.

Acrobat DC will not run on Windows XP ( about 17 percent of Windows users) or OS X versions below 10.9 ( 27 percent as of December 2014). With this update, Adobe also cuts some ties with the past. You don't have to use eSign for digital signatures, though when I opened an Acrobat-converted print form in DocuSign it came through inverted. I've seen lots of complaints about EchoSign's robustness, and eSign won't really work until the system is live and it has the relevant Web support, so I'll revisit eSign after it's all live. There's no reason to subscribe unless you're entrenched in Adobe's ecosystem or really want the convenience of syncing.ĮSign, which used to be EchoSign, also requires a subscription. Adobe's Mobile Link will sync files, settings and signatures across devices, but not everyone will think that's worth the cost. The thing about Acrobat DC is that there are plenty of far less expensive apps that deliver most of the same capabilities, and it's really worth trying them first. The export engine is much lower power than the desktop version, so unless it's a pretty basic document you'll want to save conversions for the computer. You can also export PDFs to a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document or send it to Fill & Sign. It's also quite tedious to fill long forms this way, especially on a phone. You can't simply straighten anything, and there's no page recognition, so you have to crop it manually. My one gripe about filling print forms is that the autoenhance, despite drawing on Photoshop technology, isn't very good. On both and iOS you can export to Creative Cloud, Google Drive and some other cloud storage services that I don't have installed.

When you're done, you can share in a boatload of ways, though I discovered that some are hidden until you enable them, like Gmail. And its designed to handle only one identity in order to add another you have to create a whole set of custom fields, and there's no way to organize them. However, without a subscription it won't sync that info across devices. You enter all your personal information, as well as any other information you want to create a field for, and while filling in you can just tap it and have it fill. There's a sort-of autofill option as well.
