Acrobat X Pro / Features
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Convert or scan to PDF
Adobe® Acrobat® software is the original PDF converter. With Acrobat X Pro, convert or scan to PDF a wide range of content — paper documents, spreadsheets, emails, websites, photos, Adobe Flash® Player compatible videos, and more — quickly and confidently. Everyone who reads your PDF file sees the same content, whether online, in print, or on mobile devices such as smartphones.
Word or Excel to PDF
Convert PDF files with one-button ease in Windows® from Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Outlook — without ever leaving your authoring application.
Printing to PDF
Create PDF documents from any application that prints by selecting Adobe PDF as your printer. Acrobat X captures the look and feel of your original document.
HTML to PDF
With a single click from within Internet Explorer or Firefox in Windows, capture web pages as PDF files, keeping all links intact. Convert only a portion of the page by selecting just the content you want.
Scanning to PDF
Scan and convert paper documents and forms to PDF. Make scanned text searchable automatically with OCR, and then check and fix suspected errors. Text can be exported for reuse in other applications.
Export and edit PDF files
Easily edit PDF files and quickly export PDFs as Word or Excel documents. Spend less time rekeying information and more time reusing content. Use Acrobat X Pro to reduce errors, improve productivity, and finish projects faster.
PDF to Word or Excel
Reuse content from PDF documents to get a head start on new projects. Save PDF files as Microsoft Word or Excel files, retaining layouts, formatting, and tables.
Editing PDF files
Quickly and easily edit PDF documents without going back to the original source files. Save time by making simple changes to text and images directly within PDF files. Remove, reorder, and rotate PDF pages.
Printing preparation
Reduce errors and delays at the printer. Preview, preflight, correct, and prepare PDF files for high-end print production and digital publishing.
Combine files from multiple applications
No need to fill people's inboxes with multiple emails and attachments. Create and deliver professional-looking PDF files that are simple to send, open, view, and navigate.
Creating PDF Portfolios
Assemble a wide range of materials — including spreadsheets, web pages, videos, and more — into a single, polished PDF Portfolio for high impact. Easily customize PDF Portfolios to reflect your branding and style.
Adding rich media
Quickly bring ideas to life through rich, interactive documents. Insert audio, Adobe Flash Player compatible video, and interactive media into PDF files for seamless playback in Adobe Reader 9 or X.
Attaching native files
Make sure source files are simple to locate, access, and archive. Attach them to any PDF document in their original, native formats, ensuring a more complete document of record.
Increase productivity and process consistency
Use innovative productivity-enhancing features to simplify complex projects, prepare and present high-quality content, and achieve better results.
Streamlining PDF tasks
Automate routine, multistep tasks as a guided Action with the Acrobat Action Wizard. Create, manage, execute, and share a sequence of frequently used steps that can be applied to a single PDF or batches of files.
Quick Tools
Quickly access the tools you use most — from your favorite PDF document editing tools to your most-often used comment and markup tools — by adding them to the Quick Tools area.
Comparing two files
Quickly pinpoint changes by comparing two versions of a PDF file. Acrobat X analyzes the files and presents a report detailing differences between the documents.
Streamline online document reviews
Gather feedback efficiently and accelerate approvals. Use shared online document reviews and PDF comments to get — and keep — everyone on the same page from project start to finish.
Online document reviews
Gain the feedback you need more quickly through easy-to-manage, shared document reviews that allow participants to see and build on one another's comments. Easily track progress and participation, add reviewers, and email updates or reminders.
Enhanced commenting tools
Review and mark up PDF files using a complete set of familiar commenting tools. Access markup tools and view comments from a single, unified pane. View all comments in a searchable list that can be sorted by page, author, and date.
Extending Reader functionality
Enable Adobe Reader 9 or X users to participate in shared reviews, fill and save forms, and digitally sign and approve PDF documents — regardless of platform or operating system.
Collect data with fillable PDF forms
Create, distribute, and track easy-to-use, interactive PDF forms that look like familiar paper forms — without asking IT for help.
Creating fillable forms
Easily collect data by creating fillable PDF forms from paper or existing electronic files with the Acrobat Form Wizard. Quickly distribute forms, track status, and analyze results.
Custom form design
Create professional forms from out-of-the-box templates or design forms from scratch using Adobe LiveCycle® Designer ES2 software for Windows, included as part of Acrobat X Pro.
Adobe Reader support
Enable Adobe Reader users (Reader 9 or X only) to fill and save forms — regardless of platform or operating system.
Protect PDF files and documents
Protect sensitive information with simple-to-use security features. Use PDF passwords, digital signatures, and redaction to build electronic processes you can trust.
Applying digital signatures
Digitally sign PDF documents or add document timestamps. Add certified digital signatures to help recipients validate document authenticity and integrity.
Removing and redacting information
Use redaction tools to permanently delete sensitive information, including specific text and illustrations. Easily sanitize documents by finding and deleting hidden information with a single click.
Passwords and permissions
Use passwords to help control access to your PDF documents. Apply permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering. Save passwords and permissions as security policies that can be easily applied to new PDF files.
Enabling Reader users to sign
Enable Adobe Reader 9 or X users to digitally sign PDF documents and forms or add document timestamps.
Comply with PDF and accessibility standards
Help ensure compliance with departmental, corporate, or government standards, as well as accessibility for people with disabilities.
Standards support
Comply with ISO standards for creating and validating PDF documents, including PDF/A for archiving, PDF/E for engineering, and PDF/X for print production. Fix documents that do not conform.
Accessible PDF files
Check, adjust, and validate documents to ensure accessibility for people with disabilities such as blindness or low vision. Set high-contrast colors for better visibility, and enable large-type display.
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PAdES signatures
Comply with PDF digital signature standards, including ETSI PAdES (PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures) Parts 2, 3, and 4.
Read, search, and share PDF files
Enable anyone, anywhere, to view, search, and print PDF files using free Adobe Reader® software. Share PDF files with confidence, knowing colleagues and customers will be able to see your work exactly as intended — across file formats, platforms, browsers, and devices.
Optimized viewing mode
Maximize your screen for optimal reading and presentation of PDF files with the new Reading Mode. Menus and panels disappear, and a transparent floating toolbar appears, to help you navigate PDF files more easily.
Online file sharing
Use Adobe SendNow online services from within Acrobat to send, share, and track large files without the headaches of email size restrictions, FTP sites, and costly overnight services.
