Multiple sessions.

Report · Mar 17, 2023

Can I open multiple sessions of Adobe to allow side by side comparison of files

Report · Mar 17, 2023

Just for clarification, what is implied by "multiple sessions" in the context executing many instances of the same program in a single computing device, Adobe Acrobat is not designed to virtualize multiple individual sessions of the same program in parallel.

In other words, if you were to exit the Acrobat application on any of the opened instances it will not affect the opened state of the other Acrobat sessions.

However, by default design behavior, a single session of Adobe Acrobat allows the user to open and view documents in different tabs within the same working window.

But if desired, you may detach the desired tab(s) from the main working window and view the opened PDFs documents side-by-side as if they were hosted separately into two (or more) sessions of the Adobe Acrobat program.

That is, for example, if you click on "File" => "Exit Application" on any of the opened instances of the Acrobat program, it will close all of the opened isntances of Acrobat at once.

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Report · Mar 17, 2023

Hi @Pat28933144a6ol ,

Just for clarification, what is implied by "multiple sessions" in the context executing many instances of the same program in a single computing device, Adobe Acrobat is not designed to virtualize multiple individual sessions of the same program in parallel.

In other words, if you were to exit the Acrobat application on any of the opened instances it will not affect the opened state of the other Acrobat sessions.

However, by default design behavior, a single session of Adobe Acrobat allows the user to open and view documents in different tabs within the same working window.

But if desired, you may detach the desired tab(s) from the main working window and view the opened PDFs documents side-by-side as if they were hosted separately into two (or more) sessions of the Adobe Acrobat program.

That is, for example, if you click on "File" => "Exit Application" on any of the opened instances of the Acrobat program, it will close all of the opened isntances of Acrobat at once.