Adobe Acrobat and Reader - March 2024 Updates Now Available!!
We are happy to announce that the latest Acrobat and Reader DC Continuous track (24.001.20604) is live now.
What's Included in the Update?
To begin enjoying these new features immediately, update your Acrobat by navigating to the Help menu, clicking "Check for updates," and following the on-screen instructions to complete the update process.
Here are some of the notable features introduced in this release:
- Action wizard in the new Acrobat.
- Action wizard allows you to create and manage actions and commands to run across numerous documents with a single click.
- Add shortcuts or favourite tools in Modern Acrobat.
- You can now add shortcuts or mark your favourite tools in Modern Acrobat. An enterprise admin can add shortcuts or favourite tools.
- Manually sync comments on your shared files on your Acrobat desktop.
- You can now manually sync comments on your shared files on your Acrobat desktop. The feature improves cloud syncing and ensures your document is up to date.
- Perform spelling checks on your document using Adobe Acrobat.
- With this release, Acrobat brings an automatic spelling check feature for your document.
For more exciting new features, see this article.
Bug Fixes:
- Accessibility
- Improvements to make Acrobat UI more accessible.
- Adobe Sign
- The default date format is not set in Request E-Signature.
- Fill & Sign
- The radio button in Acroform is not converting to the Native RS field.
- Reduce friction by removing the frequent reauthentication requirement while accessing agreements in the home view. Enterprises requiring users to mandatorily re-authenticate at a fixed frequency to access resources can use 'Advanced settings' as described here.
- Forms
- Unable to open linked PDFs.
- The "Highlight Existing Fields" button is visible if we do not have the Form filling permissions.
- Image Conversion
- Acrobat freezes & crashes when combining JPEG files.
- Printing
- The "Document could not be printed" error is shown after closing the page setup and printing.
- Search
- Focus disappears from the Find tool when the Cloud-powered Search's CT appears.
To update the apps manually & more information about this release, see Release Notes.
For known issues with Adobe Acrobat and Reader DC, please refer to the following document: Known issues | Acrobat DC, Reader DC
Acrobat DC System Requirements.
Enterprise-Centric features: For these, refer to the Administration Guide.