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December 24, 2021
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Can I use Adobe Acrobat Reader on my Personal Adobe ID and use Adobe Acrobat Pro with my School ID?

  • December 24, 2021
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Before I had to replace the hard drive on my computer, I used to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader logged in with my personal free account (with a lot of my personal files locally synced with the 5 GB of Adobe Cloud Storage) alongside the Adobe Acrobat Pro (with Creative Cloud) for my temporary school account. 

 

Since upgrading my storage and reinstalling software on my computer it seems that Adobe has made it to where all the apps are logged in with one account or nothing at all. 

 

This post is more likely to demand that Adobe allow for more than one account be registered to one device at a time given that I do schoolwork AND personal work using Adobe Services. I should not have to pay more to use the service for Adobe to do this either. My school already pays Adobe for the creative cloud suite on a temporary basis. I should be able to switch between accounts if my university decides to stop funding the B2B account and I need to subscribe to Adobe independently on my personal account. 

PLEASE FIX THIS!! 

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Amal.
Legend
December 24, 2021

Hi Tyler

 

++ Adding to the discussion

 

If you have installed Acrobat Reader DC 64-bit and you purchase an Acrobat DC subscription, the Acrobat Reader DC 64-bit application will upgrade to become a fully functional Acrobat DC 64-bit application. 

 

For more info. please check out the help page https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/about-acrobat-reader-dc-migration-to-64-bit.html

 

Hope this information will help

 

Regards

Amal

Legend
December 24, 2021

Adobe appear to be moving to make it impossible to run both Reader and Pro on the same computer anyway. Suggest you find another way to get your work done.

JR Boulay
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 26, 2021

I've always had both on Mac and now on Windows 10.

I hope it will continue, otherwise I will no longer be able to test my forms with Acrobat Reader...

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JR Boulay
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 24, 2021

Good news: you can use Acrobat Pro on your personal computer too, because Adobe licenses are valid for two workstations (professional/personal, desktop/laptop, etc.).

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Joel Cherney
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Community Expert
December 24, 2021

I'm not sure what you mean by "more than one account be registered to one device at a time." It seems like it would be pretty straightforward to log into CC with your school account while you're working with Acrobat Pro DC, then you could log out of your school account and shut down Acrobat before opening up Reader and logging in with your personal account. 

 

However, I've never tried that, so it may well be a nightmare. What I have done when faced with similar nightmares is a practice that I'm going to reccomend to you, under the heading of "keeping business separate from one's personal life." I have two different partitions on this hard drive with two separate installs of Windows; one is WORK, and one is PLAY. It's the best way to keep these accounts separate. There are lots of variations on this method; you could run two Windows partitions on a Mac running Parallels, or you could have two separate Windows partitions running on bare iron, so you'd have to reboot every time you need to switch from WORK to PLAY. You could have a single Windows install with two separate users, and log out of one account and into another when you needed to switch environments. I imagine, assuming your hardware could handle it, that you could leave 'em both logged in all the time and just switch users when you needed the other working environment.

 

However, if you think that the feature of being able to have multiple Adobe accounts running on the same install would be desirable, this is not a good place to make that feature request. If you head over to acrobat.uservoice.com, that's the place where the dev team is rather more likely to read the posts and look at bug fixes and feature requests. This is a user-to-user  forum, so the chances of your feature request gaining traction here are much lower.