Add Acrobat Reader to Creative Cloud

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June 16, 2024
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I use Acrobat Reader (instead of Acrobat and Acrobat Pro) for some specific purposes as it behaves differently and does not interfere with PDF files. It would be beneficial if we could have Acrobat Reader in Creative Cloud.

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jane-e

Community Expert

@sfbobby wrote:

@jane-e Yes, I have Creative Cloud "All Apps". I need both the Acrobat Reader and Acrobat in Creative Cloud as separate programs

As I understand it, Windows does not allow you to have both Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Reader installed. I'm on macOS, which does allow both to be installed and running at the same time, sometimes with the same document open in both. I don't know why this doesn't work in Windows. It should!

Jane

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sfbobbyAuthor

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@Kalvyn Rasquinha

Thank you so much for your replies and the effort to add Acrobat Reader to Creative Cloud.

Acrobat / Acrobat Pro is great, but it does too much sometimes. Hence, it is necessary to have Acrobat Reader as a separate program in Creative Cloud.

Kalvyn Rasquinha

Community Manager

Thanks for clarifying, @sfbobby. Acrobat (the full app) is already listed, as you know. We're working with the Acrobat team on adding Acrobat Reader as well. There's some technical complexities we're sorting through which is why Reader hasn't been listed so far.

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sfbobbyAuthor

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@jane-e Yes, I have Creative Cloud "All Apps". I need both the Acrobat Reader and Acrobat in Creative Cloud as separate programs. I don't like to use Acrobat / Acrobat Pro as my default PDF viewer. I like to use Acrobat Reader specifically. I use Acrobat / Acrobat Pro only when I need to edit a PDF.

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sfbobbyAuthor

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@Kalvyn Rasquinha Yes—having Acrobat Reader and Acrobat in the Creative Cloud "All Apps" membership/program would be helpful to countless Adobe users. Not everyone likes Acrobat as their default PDF viewer. I am one such user.

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sfbobbyAuthor

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@kglad When I open PDF files, Acrobat Reader shows them exactly as their creator created them. On the other hand, with Acrobat I see some slight changes to some fields. So, for many years now, I have been using Acrobat Reader as my default PDF viewer. I use Acrobat only when I need to edit a PDF. (I am sorry, I don't have any screenshots at this time.)