Revolutionize Your PDF Experience: Discover the Top New Features of the Adobe Acrobat Updates for June 2023
Adobe released a new version of Acrobat DC. These are the main features for the Adobe Acrobat updates for 2023.
- Customize All Tools: Users can now rearrange tools in the All tools list via drag-and-drop for a more personalized interface.
- Multiple Touchpoints for Combining Files: Additional options for combining files have been integrated, including through the Create button and context menus.
- Waffle Icon Removed: The All tools label has been simplified by removing the waffle icon to create a tidier interface.
- Improvements in Editing PDFs: Users can now add annotations while editing a PDF and seamlessly return to the editing tool.
- Auto-Adjust Layout While Editing PDFs: This feature introduces a multi-page editing experience where text and images automatically adjust, maintaining the layout and margins, and supporting multi-level lists editing.
- Reordering of Comment Tool: The Send for comments tool is now more accessible in the All tools panel.
- Enhancements in Request E-Signatures Experience: The Request e-signatures tool has been improved for a more streamlined user experience.
- Share a Document with Yourself: Users can now add themselves as recipients in the signing process.
- Rearrange Recipients List by Dragging: In the Add recipients dialog, the list can be reordered through drag-and-drop.
- Reordering of Sign Tools: Sign tools like Request e-signatures and Fill & Sign are now more discoverable in the All tools list.
- New Form Fields in Agreements: Users can include image files, stamps, file attachments, and transaction number fields in agreements.
- Prefill Company and Title Field: This feature allows prefilling the Company and Title fields to enhance efficiency.
- Support for Searching Agreement Drafts and Templates: This feature supports the searching of agreement drafts and templates.
- Prompt to Request Signatures or Save a Certified Copy After Filling a Form: This experimental feature prompts the next action after filling a form, like requesting e-signatures or saving a certified copy.
In addition to the Adobe Acrobat updates for 2023, the October 2023 release introduced several further new features and enhancements:
- Request Signatures for Different Format Files: This feature allows users to request e-signatures for multiple files selected from the recent files list, combining them into a single PDF for the signing process.
- New Request Signatures Experience for Teams: A specific update for Acrobat for teams license users, offering a new experience in requesting signatures that wasn’t available before.
- Enhancements to PDF Maker in Microsoft Office Apps: Acrobat extended its integration with Microsoft Office applications, allowing users to share files as Adobe PDFs directly from the File menu, which then converts the file into a PDF, opens it in Acrobat, and creates a shareable link.
